Former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and his wife, Hajia Samira Bawumia, are safe and in good health in Mecca, Saudi ...

A Spanish retired teacher who converted to Islam rode more than 6,000 kilometers on horseback from Andalusia to Mecca, fulfilling a decades-old promise ...

Four years ago, Osama bin Laden's relatives, worried about his ill health, tried to use the pilgrimage as a cover to visit the Saudi-born terrorist while he was holed up in Afghanistan, says a former ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia — Muslim pilgrims have been streaming into Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca ahead of the start of the Hajj later this week, as the annual pilgrimage returns to its monumental ...

Hajj is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, and more than 2 million Muslims make the pilgrimage to Mecca each year, including from Connecticut. Khalid and Yasmin Kapadwala made the trek, leaving their ...

As we are currently observing both Lent and Ramadan, the crisis in the Middle East is a disaster for the religious tourism sector.

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia has begun. It’s required once in a lifetime by every Muslim who can afford it and is physically able to make it. The ...