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

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 ...

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 Hill) – A couple from Maryland were among the more than 1,300 people who died during the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, Democratic Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks announced Sunday. Alhaji ...

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 ...

BOWIE, Md. - FOX 5 learned over the weekend, a Bowie, Maryland couple who left earlier this month to embark on an Islamic pilgrimage died due to the extreme heat, according to the couple’s daughter.