01:00 The first day of Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s biggest religious gatherings, kicks off in India amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly one million Hindu pilgrims gathered on the ban
AtleasttwoIranianwomenpilgrimswerekilledinhotelfireintheIraqicityofNajafonMonday,IranDailyreported.MortezaAqaei,anofficialatIran'sHajjandPilgrimageOrganization,
Morethan100,000SaudisecurityofficerswillbedeployedtoprotectthemillionsofworshippersexpectedtoparticipateintheHajjpilgrimagethisweek.Inthepast,therehavebeendeadl
TwomillionMuslimsfromacrosstheglobeareconvergingonMeccainSaudiArabiaforthehajjpilgrimage,areligiousdutyandforsomepilgrimsthejourneyofalifetime.Thisyearseesthere
ByAPDWriterRishikaChauhanNEWDELHI,July11(APD)-TerroristsintheprovinceofJammuandKashmirgunneddownsevenpilgrimsonMonday.Morethan19peoplewerealsoinjuredintheattack
It's difficult to imagine how the female pilgrims trekking the perimeter of Koyasan, one of Japan's most holy sites, centuries ago must have felt while making their journey.
A suicide tanker truck bomb attack on Thursday killed some 80 Shiite pilgrims, including 24 Iranians, at a fuel station in Babil province in south of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, security sources said.
Saudi King Salman arrived in Mina on Sunday to ensure the pilgrims can "perform their rituals easily, conveniently and safely", the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
At least 14 pilgrims have been killed and a dozen others injured in a passenger car crash in Dawei district, southern Myanmar, local media reported Thursday.
A senior official at Indonesia's Ministry of Religious Affairs said here on Friday that the number of Indonesian pilgrims killed in the hajj stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabia last week has reached 91 as efforts to search the missing nationals related to the stampede are still underway at the moment.
Saudi authorities said the total number of pilgrims killed in the stampede Thursday in Mecca has risen to 717.
Saudi authorities said a stampede Thursday in Mecca has killed 220 pilgrims and injured 450 others.
Saudi Arabia is expected to receive more than 1.3 million foreign pilgrims this Hajj season, with majority from south Asian countries, Arab News reported on Tuesday.
The 44-day long annual pilgrimage to the Hindu shrine of Amarnath concluded in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said Tuesday.
At least 28 people were killed and 45 others injured when a suicide bomber hit a bus carrying Shiite muslim pilgrims in Pakistan's southwest province of Balochistan
Lebanon on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against three detainees and 10 family members of the 11 pilgrims abducted in Syria, on charges of "forming an armed gang and abducting the two Turkish pilots," the state-run National News Agency quoted a judiciary officer as saying.
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