Reuters news agency noticed at least one surprising shift in rhetoric: The sermon by Abdulrahman al-Sudais, imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, broadcast on Saudi state television on Sept.

Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) militants have declared their intentions to expand their influence across the Middle East, ...

The building collapsed after a suicide bomber blew himself up, the Saudi interior ministry said Saudi Arabia says it has foiled a "terrorist action" against the Grand Mosque in Mecca - Islam's ...

Two women who attended the same mosque as the Wuries and Koroma made it to Mecca. But they described a perilous journey that left one of them needing emergency medical care. Mariama Stewart ...

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 ...

Around 63 per cent of pilgrims performing Umrah, or the minor pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, prefer shopping in Medina, ...

Several images of Cristiano Ronaldo and his wife in a white dress praying at Mecca have gone viral, claiming that the star ...

"The mosque definitely," I answer quickly. "But which one?" he replies laughing. "There are hundreds of them." Harar's other moniker is the African Mecca, and locals here claim that the area's ...

Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs H.R. Muhammad Syafii on Friday highlighted President Prabowo Subianto's directive to ...

At his mosque Kaisan prays with his dad in the men's section. During prayers everyone faces the qibla a niche in the wall pointing towards the Kaaba in the holy city of Mecca. There's a verse in ...