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 ...

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 ...

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.

A husband and wife from Bowie, Maryland, had always dreamed of making the Hajj to Mecca. Their family says they were among more than 1,000 people who died on the annual five-day pilgrimage to Saudi ...

Mecca has unveiled its first fully electric Bus Rapid Transit network, the Masar BRT, revolutionizing pilgrim transport.

Waleed Aly has shaved his head and “learnt a lesson about masculinity” from Islam, saying a pilgrimage to Mecca highlighted ...

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, ...

Earlier this year, Ali Khalil Hussein, a 50-year-old Iraqi, resolved to travel to Mecca in Saudi Arabia this summer to perform the hajj pilgrimage, one of Islam’s most important rituals. Mr. Hussein, ...

News COVID hajj restrictions leave streets of Mecca empty, pilgrimage businesses in trouble MECCA, Saudi Arabia (RNS) — As much as a quarter of the economy around Mecca relies on tourism and ...

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 ...