Prabowo plans to build Indonesian Hajj village in Saudi Arabia
Jakarta (ANTARA) - President Prabowo Subianto is eager to build a special village for Indonesian Hajj and Umrah pilgrims in Saudi Arabia to centralize...
WHO global network expands digital health certification for Hajj pilgrims
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced a new milestone digital health collaboration today to expand the Hajj health...
Why Hajj was so deadly this year
More than 1,300 people have died in Saudi Arabia during this year’s Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to some of Islam’s holiest sites, succumbing to...
what a scholar of Islam saw in Mecca
At least 1,300 people died because of scorching heat during the Hajj pilgrimage in June 2024. It’s not the first...
Deaths at Hajj and Big Events Highlight Failures to Adjust to Heat
At large events all over the world, the scenes of extreme heat stress are starting to look familiar. Older men, shirts undone, lying down...