22 Aug 2018
JEDDAH: Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan Al-Saud, minister of culture and governor of the Royal Commission for Al-Ula, launched on Wednesday a program of initiatives that will put the local community at the heart of the preservation and development of the region. The five initiatives came after the prince met with members of the Al-Ula community as part of his
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21 Aug 2018
More than 2.3 million pilgrims, who have reassembled in Mina, on Tuesday celebrated the Eid Al-Adha with the rest of the Islamic world, threw the pebbles at the Satan, slaughtered their sacrificial animals, changed into plain clothes, shaved off their hair and proceeded to the Grand Mosque to do tawaf Al-Ifada at the end of the Haj rites.
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21 Aug 2018
At the Grand Mosque, Imam Sheikh Faisal Ghazawi led the prayers. In his Eid sermon, Ghazawi called on the faithful to shun division and hatred, and embrace love and compassion while showing mercy to the weaker sections in the society. He emphasized that Haj is instrumental in further consolidating the faith in monotheism.
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21 Aug 2018
Mishal Al-Robaian, spokesman of the Ministry of Health, said that there were 28 sunstroke cases and 143 exhaustion cases were reported among the pilgrims. Col. Sami Al-Shuwairekh, assistant commander of the Haj Security Forces, said that as many as 192 fake Haj firms were apprehended up to Tuesday morning. He said that a total of 926,686 people without a Haj permit and 253,457 vehicles transporting them were sent back from various entry points to Makkah and the holy sites.
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21 Aug 2018
MAKKAH: Muslims celebrated the first day of Eid Al-Adha on Tuesday, which marks the closing parts of the Hajj pilgrimage. The massive crowds had spent the previous night camped out in Muzdalifah, having performed the most important of the Hajj rituals, visiting mount Arafat, where they believe the Prophet Muhammad gave his last sermon. They had also endured poor weather
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