This month, Muslims from around the world, including hundreds of families from Virginia, will travel to the holy city of Mecca (Makkah, in Arabic) to perform the annual pilgrimage. The pilgrimage, or ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging doctors to be on the lookout for potentially deadly meningococcal disease linked to travel to Saudi Arabia. Since April, there have been 12 ...

NAIROBI: At least 4,500 Kenyans are set to travel to Mecca in Saudi Arabia for the annual religious pilgrimage (hajj), the highest number in recent history. The first batch of pilgrims jetted off from ...

Thousands of Muslim pilgrims circumambulate the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday. (Amr Nabil / Associated Press) One million Muslim ...

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

Religiously speaking, it was not a substitute for the real pilgrimage, which all Muslims must try to make in their lifetime. But it inspired many... At a traffic circle in Maryland, Mona Eldadah ...

Saudi Embassy in Nairobi Charge D’Affaires Abdullah Al Qahtani ( left) gives Hajj ceremonial dressing to Sheikh Ahmad Uthman at the Embassy on Wednesday ahead of their flight to Mecca PHOTO: ALLY ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. (7News) — One Silver Spring, Md., woman told 7News she used the same travel company as the Bowie, Md., couple who died in Mecca while taking part in the Hajj earlier this month, and ...

Saudi Arabia finally reopened the holy city of Mecca to international travelers after a two-year pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. But a new set of travel restrictions and operating procedures ...

A Bowie couple with lifelong dreams to travel to Mecca for Hajj died in Saudi Arabia during this month’s pilgrimage. Alieu Wurie, 71, and Isatu Wurie, 65, were longtime Bowie residents originally from ...

(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, ...