Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Muslim pilgrims perform the Eid al-Adha morning prayer on Sunday, around the Kaaba shrine in Mecca - AFP Hundreds have died in ...

A husband and wife from Bowie, Maryland, had always dreamed of making the Hajj to Mecca. Their family says they were among more than 1,000 people who died on the annual five-day pilgrimage to Saudi ...

MINA, Saudi Arabia — Muslim pilgrims used the early morning hours Monday to perform the second day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, hoping to escape the noontime summer heat that caused ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rendering is shown of the King Salman's Gate complex to be built in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Image courtesy of RUA AlHaram AlMakki ...

CAIRO — More than 1,300 people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the faithful faced extreme high temperatures at Islamic holy sites in the desert kingdom, Saudi authorities ...

The annual Muslim pilgrimage to the sacred city of Mecca that wrapped up last week became a death march for over 1,300 Hajj participants who died in temperatures that climbed above 124 degrees. Saudi ...

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 ...

Oct. 15 (UPI) --Saudi Arabian Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced a new multi-use development in the Muslim holy city of Mecca. The area, called King Salman's Gate, will be 2,965 acres of floor area ...