by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 4, 2017 | Saudi Arabia
Riyadh- King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid (KSRelief) continued distributing aid to 507,310 displaced people in Syrian governorates of Aleppo and Hama, reported the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). According to the Tuesday SPA statement, aid includes clothes,...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 11, 2017 | Saudi Arabia
Riyadh – The Saudi-based National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) condemned the “flagrant violation of the human rights, beating, degradation and humiliation” of Qatari citizen Hamad Al-Marri after he returned from the annual Hajj pilgrimage. It said that...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 6, 2017 | Saudi Arabia
Jeddah- Saudi Minister of Culture and Information Dr. Awwad al-Awwad stressed that the success of this year’s Hajj season has disappointed the attempts to spoil the fifth pillar of Islam. Awwad reiterated his country’s rejection for calls to politicize Hajj and...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 5, 2017 | Saudi Arabia
Jeddah – Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz expressed on Monday his satisfaction with the success of this year’s annual Hajj pilgrimage. His stance came in reply to a cable he received from Interior Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud,...
by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Sep 4, 2017 | Opinion
Muslims make up about 24 percent of the world population. With one and a half billion Muslims worldwide, should one billion of them decide on performing Hajj– which is pillar of Islam– at least once in a lifetime, it will take up to 500 years for the task to be...
