17 Jan 2018
India’s central government has said it will withdraw a subsidy given to hundreds of thousands of Muslims for their annual Haj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.
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17 Jan 2018
Only people aged between 25 and 60 years will be allowed to push the wheelchairs of Hajj and Umrah pilgrims, said the Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques. The age limit is to ensure the health of pilgrims and visitors, and because people outside the age group may have difficulty reaching the elevations of Safa and Marwa while pushing a wheelchair, said the director of mobility services at the presidency, Saleh Hossawee.
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17 Jan 2018
The Holy City of Madinah experienced a 2.5 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday, engineer Hani Zahran of the Saudi Geological Society told Arab News. City officials confirmed that there were no reports of damage from the earthquake. The center of the earthquake was 14km north-west of Madinah at a depth of 7 kilometers below the surface.
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16 Jan 2018
NEW DELHI: India’s Hindu nationalist government is ending a decades-long policy of offering discounted airfares to Muslims embarking on the Hajj pilgrimage, it announced Tuesday. The right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party has accused its opponents in the Congress party — who introduced the Hajj assistance scheme in the 1950s — of trying to woo Muslim voters through handouts.
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16 Jan 2018
Hajj and Umrah fraud continues to increase among Muslim pilgrims in Cape Town.
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