JAKARTA: Indonesia's government is working to lower the cost of the annual Haj pilgrimage for its citizens by building a ...

Hundreds have died in chaotic scenes at the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, as temperatures in the Saudi Arabian desert soared above 50C. More than 550 people have now been confirmed dead after this year’s ...

The Hajj is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca that every able-bodied Muslim is expected to complete once ...

MINA, Saudi Arabia — Muslim pilgrims used the early morning hours Monday to perform the second day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, hoping to escape the noontime summer heat that caused ...

The  office responsible for managing the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, the Pilgrims Affairs Office of Ghana (PAOG), has stopped ...

Democratic Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks confirmed a Maryland couple are among the more than 1,300 people who have died in extreme temperatures during the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

Hajj is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, and more than 2 million Muslims make the pilgrimage to Mecca each year, including from Connecticut. Khalid and Yasmin Kapadwala made the trek, leaving their ...

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims from across the globe Friday began the annual pilgrimage to the Great Mosque of Mecca in Saudi Arabia for the hajj -- with the faithful walking in the footsteps of the ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia — More than 2 million Muslims began the annual hajj pilgrimage at first light Sunday in Saudi Arabia, circling the cube-shaped Kaaba in Mecca that Islam's faithful face five times ...

(RNS) — For two years as the COVID-19 pandemic raged on, Sumaira Malik and her husband, Nauman Chaudary, left their deposit with Dar El Salam Travel for their planned hajj, or pilgrimage, to Mecca, ...

Ph.D. Candidate, Religion in the Americas, Global Islam, University of Florida Nearly 2 million Muslims will gather in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia on Aug. 9 for an annual pilgrimage known ...