One of the five pillars of Islam is that each believer is called, at least once in their lives, to make the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage that starts and ends in the holy city of Mecca located in ...

Hajj is too expensive. Hajj is too crowded. Hajj isn’t regulated well enough. The Saudi government isn’t measuring up as the ...

Prices range from SR8,000 to 13,000 excluding transportation cost Cairo: Saudi Arabia has unveiled four main packages for domestic pilgrims ahead of this year’s annual Islamic Hajj pilgrimage.

(RNS) — The changes are not only sensible but, after last year's massive loss of life at the Hajj, necessary. (RNS) — Hajj is too expensive. Hajj is too crowded. Hajj isn’t regulated well ...