Twelve-year-old Kaisan demonstrates the Muslim prayer ritual which is performed five times a day in this clip from a series ...

(RNS) — I was disappointed to not experience my children’s reaction to seeing the Kaaba for the first time, but made my peace. After leaving Medina, where we’d spent a few days before going to Mecca, ...

Tell Me More's series "Flying High: The First In Their Class" reflects on some of the famous firsts that the space shuttle program produced. In... Praying Toward Mecca ... In Outer Space Host Michel ...

Pilgrims streaming into Islam’s holy city for the annual hajj prayed for the 157,000 people killed in last month’s tsunami that devastated southern Asia, asking God to give survivors the courage to ...

STORY: The cave, located on al-Noor mountain, is where Prophet Mohammed is believed to have received his first revelation. Many pilgrims made the climb to the narrow cave to pray at sunrise, ahead of ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Divided in their troubled homeland, Iraqi pilgrims who made the perilous journey to Mecca for haj this week are united in their prayers for peace, stability and the ...

In years before the coronavirus, some 3 million white-clad pilgrims from across the world flocked to Islam's holiest sites to attend haj under Saudi Arabia's blistering sun. By Marwa Rashad RIYADH, ...

new video loaded: Pilgrims pray in the holy mosque in Mecca Millions of pilgrims arrive in Mecca for haj and pray in the holy mosque. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). Advertisement 1:03 1:52 1:24 ...

Water mist is sprayed on Muslim pilgrims as they pray on the rocky hill known as the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Muslim pilgrims have started arriving in Mecca for a drastically scaled-down hajj, as Saudi authorities balance the kingdom’s oversight of one of Islam’s key pillars and ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Pope Benedict ended a sensitive, fence-mending visit to Turkey on Friday amid praise for visiting Istanbul's famed Blue Mosque and praying there facing towards Mecca "like Muslims ...

Muslim pilgrims enter Namira Mosque in Arafat to mark Haj's most important day, Day of Arafat, during their Haj pilgrimage amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, outside the holy city of ...