Virus halts pilgrimages to Mecca, Friday prayers in Iran
AP | AMIR VAHDAT and JON GAMBRELL: The coronavirus outbreak disrupted Islamic worship in the Middle East as Saudi Arabia on Wednesday…
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Saudi Arabia restricts pilgrimage to most sacred Muslim sites of Mecca & Medina over coronavirus
RT – Saudi Arabia has imposed a temporary ban on religious pilgrimage, known as Umrah, to historic Islamic shrines in Mecca and…
Iranian Hajj pilgrims return home
IRNA – The last flight carrying Hajj pilgrims from Saudi Arabia landed in Imam Khomeini International Airport on Sunday, marking the end…
Iranian Hajj pilgrims to start returning home from Aug. 27
MNA – Iranian Hajj pilgrims are planned to start returning home from Monday all through Sep. 15, according to an Iranian airports…
Millions of Muslims celebrate Eid Al-Adha in Mecca
Tasnim – Millions of Muslims celebrated the Eid al-Adha in Mecca on Tuesday during the annual Hajj pilgrimage. The Saudi Al-Quran TV…
First group of Iranian Hajj pilgrims leave for S. Arabia tomorrow
IRNA – First group of Iranian pilgrims comprising 270 people are to leave Tehran for the city of Medina in Saudi Arabia…
The land of Mecca belong to all Muslims, not a particular govt
Khamenei.ir – As the time for Abrahamic rituals of Hajj approaches— the time when people leave for Mecca to perform Hajj— organizers…
Crane collapse in Mecca raises fresh safety worries
Press TV- A winch crane has collapsed near the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia and left one person…
Muslims may lose Mecca if they fail to hold on to Jerusalem – Erdogan
RT– Muslims may lose Mecca and other holy sites if the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israeli capital isn’t reversed, Turkish…
Tehran to follow Daesh attack on Iranian cleric in Mecca
IRNA – A senior Iranian official said here that Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization would pursue the case of Takfiri terrorists’ attack…
Iranian Hajj pilgrim attacked by terrorists in Mecca
IFP – A cleric accompanying Iranian Hajj pilgrims has been wounded after unknown terrorists attacked him in the holy city of Mecca,…
Iranians are Saudi Arabia’s brothers in Islam: Mecca governor
IFP – The governor of the holy city of Mecca has referred to Iranians and Saudi Arabians as religious brothers, expressing the…
3 more Iranian pilgrims die in Mecca
Tasnim – The number of Iranians who have died while performing Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia this year rose to eight after…
Saudi Arabia claims Qatar blocking flights to Mecca
Press TV – Saudi Arabia has claimed that Qatar is stopping its planes from landing in Doha to take pilgrims to Mecca.…
Mecca ruled by House of Saud should belong to all Muslims
RT | Ms. Marwa Osman: How fair is it that Islam’s holiest sites, Mecca and Medina, are controlled by Saudi Arabia, with…
Lebanon’s Hezbollah condemns Mecca bombing
AP) — The Latest on a foiled plot targeting the Grand Mosque in the holy Muslim city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia…
Suicide bomber blows himself up as Saudis foil Mecca plot
AP– A suicide bomber blew himself up near the Grand Mosque in Mecca as police disrupted a plot to target the holiest…
Mecca, Medina properties of Islam, not Al Saud: Iran
An Iranian official says Saudi Arabia has deliberately barred Iranians from making the Hajj pilgrimage and refused to discuss ways to prevent the…
Millions of Muslims gather in Mecca for Hajj pilgrimage
Millions of Muslims from around the world are gathering in Saudi Arabia to perform special ceremonies for the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Close…
Iran’s leading scholar urges Muslims to conquer Mecca
Rahimpour Azghadi: “Once again Mecca must be conquered by Muslims all over the world….. Saudi family is the main reason of converting…
At least 18 injured in crush in Saudi city of Mecca
At least 18 pilgrims have been injured in a crush near Islam’s holiest site, Saudi media say, just over six months after hundreds…
From Masjid al-Haram to Masjid al-Aqsa…
Two sacred mosques in Islam—Masjid al Haram in Makkah and Masjid al-Aqsa in al-Quds (Jerusalem)—are under threat. The global Muslim Ummah must…
Saudi Arabia to launch new surveillance center: Report
Saudi Arabia is planning to launch a new security surveillance center, staffing it with hundreds of foreign-trained personnel, a report says. The…
Four crises threatening existence of Saudi Arabia
Alwaght- Over the past year, Saudi Arabia has experienced a very turbulent year. After King Abdullah passed away, many incidents and crises…
Iran daily: Iranian death toll rises to 464 from Mecca stampede
Iran’s officials have sharply raised the Iranian death toll from last week’s stampede at the Mecca pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia from 239…
Iran officially asks Saudi Arabia to repatriate all nationals killed in Mina
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Iranian deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs announced on Wednesday that the country has sent an…
Iran summons Saudi charge d’Affaires over Mina stampede
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s foreign ministry on Thursday summoned Saudi Arabia’s charge d’affaires over a recent incident outside Mecca that led to…
At least 150 pilgrims killed near Mecca during Hajj – civil defence
At least 150 pilgrims were killed on Thursday in a crush at Mina, outside the Muslim holy city of Mecca, where some…
1,000 pilgrims evacuated as fire engulfs hotel in Mecca
Some one thousand people have been evacuated following a fire at the eighth floor of a hotel housing pilgrims from Asia in the holy city of…
Mecca crane crash takes lives of 5 Iranian pilgrims
Tehran, Sept 13, IRNA – Head of Hajj medical corpse of Iran’s Red Crescent Society Ali Marashi said the number of Iranian…
Photos: Iranian pilgrims head to Mecca for Hajj pilgrimage
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The first group of Iranian pilgrims left Imam Khomeini International Airport in the Iranian capital of Tehran for the…
Iran, Saudi Arabia to set up hospital in Mecca
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran and Saudi Arabia plan to jointly construct a hospital in the holy city of Mecca, the head of…
Iran’s coverage: Millions of Muslim pilgrims mark Eid al-Adha
Daily look at Iran’s late-breaking news and upcoming events: Hajj Muslim pilgrims marked Feast of Sacrifice Millions of Muslim pilgrims in…
2 million Muslims stone the devil during hajj
Two million Muslims ritually stoned the devil Saturday in the last major ritual of this year’s hajj in Saudi Arabia, while fellow…
Ka’bah in Makkah adorned with new covering
The Ka’bah was adorned with a new cover (Kiswa) on Friday. In an annual custom, the new black cloth was placed on…
Hajj Muslim pilgrims marked Feast of Sacrifice
Millions of Muslim pilgrims in Hajj ceremony have marked the Feast of Sacrifice, Eid al-Adha, at the desert of Mina, in Saudi…
Saudi Arabia readies for hajj pilgrimage
Around 1.3 million Muslims have been converging on the holy city of Makkah from all over the world to perform the annual…
Iran hosts Muslims Unity confab in Mecca
Iran’s Hajj mission has held an international conference on Muslims Unity during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in holy city of Mecca, Saudi…