17 Aug 2017
Baiq Mariah, a 104-year-old woman from Indonesia, arrived in Jeddah on the first leg of her Hajj pilgrimage. She is the oldest among some 221,000 pilgrims from Indonesia this year.
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17 Aug 2017
“On the way back from hajj they would know where I’d been,” one Damascus resident tells Syria Direct. “I think that’s something that would cause problems for me.”
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17 Aug 2017
Saudi Binladin Group will restart work next month on the $26.6 billion expansion of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, nearly two years after work stopped in the wake of a crane collapse at the site that killed 107 people, sources told Reuters on Thursday.
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16 Aug 2017
About 230,000 Malaysians have performed the 'umrah' (minor pilgrimage) from November 2016 to June this year, with the value of pilgrimage and umrah sale packages exceeding RM1 billion.
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16 Aug 2017
Women working in Tawafah are continuing their ancestors’ profession dating back more than eight centuries. Their main task is to serve and care for pilgrims in Makkah from arrival until departure.
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