Hajj and Umrah News - South Africa

21 Sep 2020

Hajj savings mobile app expected to entice Indonesian millennials

Principal Global Investors will launch a mobile app in Indonesia later this month designed to help the country's 80 million millennials get an early start on saving for the hajj — the pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca that's obligatory for Muslims to make at least once in their lifetimes.

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21 Sep 2020

Saudi Arabia to launch app for Mecca pilgrims amid virus

Saudi Arabia on Monday released new details on how it plans to gradually allow Muslims back to Islam's holiest site in Mecca to perform the smaller, year-round pilgrimage, which has been suspended for the past seven months due to the coronavirus.

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21 Sep 2020

Umrah pilgrimage to be restored in phases

Minister of Hajj and Umrah Mohammed Saleh Benten said that while public health remains the Kingdom’s top priority, his ministry is studying a three-stage plan for the gradual restoration of the pilgrimage.

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