Tag: Hajj

BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:40 A.M.) - Tens of thousands of Muslims gathered in Saudi Arabia on Saturday for the start of the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Footage shows thousands of devotees entering the ...

(Reuters) Qatar has accused Saudi Arabia of barring its citizens from this year’s haj, something Riyadh denies, saying a diplomatic dispute is not stopping Qataris from making the pilgrimage to ...

(IRNA) The Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Reza Salehi-Amiri said on Wednesday that all the conditions of Iran in order to provide security for Iranian Hajj pilgrims and ...

(IRNA) Iran and Saudi Arabia will discuss Hajj pilgrimage next month, a senior Iranian official said Thursday evening. The representative of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei for ...

A senior Iranian official dismissed rumors that Saudi Arabia had invited Iran to discuss the resumption of their participation in the Hajj processions. “Contrary to the report published by some media outlets ...

Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami has said on Monday that Saudi rulers are criminals who must be punished for the deaths of thousands during the 2015 Hajj stampede. "There is no doubt ...

Saudi Arabia has launched a Farsi-language (national language of Iran) satellite television to broadcast the hajj as Iranians will not be attending this years pilgrimage as a result of the politicizing ...

(AFP) Saudi Arabia has begun issuing hajj pilgrims with identification bracelets one year after a stampede killed around 2,300 people. The bracelets are a reassurance to some pilgrims, though their ...

On the anniversary of Mina catastrophe, Lebanese newspaper of Al-Akhbar posted a report in which it cited a database leaked from the Saudi Ministry of Public Health, documenting the death ...

Head of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Saeed Ohadi said in an interview with AFP on Friday that Saudi Arabia has deliberately barred Iranians from making the Hajj pilgrimage and refused ...