Latest Breaking Mecca News and Current Events
Gambling law change boosts Rank
Mecca :: Saudi Arabia | about 1 month ago | Business News
Source: BBC
Rank has been able to increase the numbers of these machines in the bingo halls since new gambling laws came into effect on 1 September last year. As a result, Rank said like-for-like revenues at the Mecca outlets were up...
2 news stories / 0 blog posts / 7 images / 7 videos / 0 voices
From Mumbai to Mecca, the Hajj is set to begin
Mecca :: Saudi Arabia | about 1 month ago | Political News
Source: Daily News & Analysis
From the first week of December, over one million Indian Muslims will make the Hajj to Mecca, in what is the world's largest annual pilgrimage As the month of December draws nearer, Muslims, from all across the globe will descend...
2 news stories / 0 blog posts / 5 images / 16 videos / 0 voices
UK hostages on Saudi tanker named
Mecca :: Saudi Arabia | 15 days ago | Conflict & Tragedy
Posted by
vishnughimire 
The families of two British crew men held by pirates aboard a hijacked Saudi Arabian oil tanker said they hoped the men would be "home safely very soon". Peter French and James Grady are on the Sirius Star, a supertanker...
50 news stories / 3 blog posts / 6 images / 18 videos / 1 voice
Millions join Khatma prayers
Mecca :: Saudi Arabia | 2 months ago | Entertainment News
Posted by
piracha 
More than two million Muslims yesterday took part in special prayers at the Grand Mosque in Makkah to mark the completion of the recitation of the Holy Qur’an during the nighttime Taraweeh prayers this Ramadan. The huge mosque complex as...
3 news stories / 0 blog posts / 10 images / 3 videos / 1 voice
Arab, Israeli leaders to attend rare dinner
Mecca :: Saudi Arabia | 23 days ago | Political News
Source: Rocky Mount Telegram
Arab leaders, including the Saudi king, and Israel's president will attend the same dinner Tuesday night, a rare encounter that the head of the United Nations hopes will promote understanding and talks...Secretary-Ge
12 news stories / 30 blog posts / 27 images / 30 videos / 0 voices
19 pilgrims have died in Saudi Arabia
Mecca :: Saudi Arabia | 11 days ago | Conflict & Tragedy
Posted by
ashrafuddin
Some 19 Pakistani pilgrims have died in Saudi Arabia due to natural causes since November 2 after reaching the Holy Land to perform Hajj. Joint Secretary (Hajj), Ministry of Religious Affairs, Muhammad Jamil told APP here on Sunday that heirs...
3 news stories / 0 blog posts / 0 images / 4 videos / 0 voices
Foster and Hadid in running to remake Mecca
Mecca :: Saudi Arabia | 7 days ago | Entertainment News
Source: The independent
Two of Britain's most-renowned architects are in the running for the single most audacious renovation in history: the redevelopment of Mecca. Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid are among 18 architects to have been approached about redesigning Islam's holiest city by...
2 news stories / 1 blog post / 6 images / 1 video / 0 voices
The Islamic truth:Haj pilgrimage once in his or her life.
Mecca :: Saudi Arabia | 4 days ago | No category
Posted by
aarana
Every able-bodied adult Muslim who can afford the trip must perform haj, one of the pillars of Islam, The climax of the pilgrimage will see worshippers climb Mount Arafat, the site of Mohammad's last sermon 14 centuries ago. The Eid...
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