TEHRAN (IQNA) – An Iranian pilgrim who survived the recent crush outside the holy city of Makkah in Saudi Arabia blasted Saudi officials for their slow and inadequate response to the emergency situation.
News ID: 3367200 Publish Date : 2015/09/25
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Five members of Iran’s Quranic delegation to Hajj are still unaccounted for after the tragic crush in Mina on Thursday, in which hundreds of pilgrims were killed.
News ID: 3367193 Publish Date : 2015/09/25
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pope Francis expressed “closeness” with the world’s Muslims on Thursday after hundreds of pilgrims were killed in a stampede outside the holy city of Makkah in the worst disaster to strike the annual Hajj pilgrimage in a quarter century.
News ID: 3367173 Publish Date : 2015/09/25
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a message offered condolences over the deaths of hundreds of pilgrims in Thursday’s stampede in Makkah.
News ID: 3367169 Publish Date : 2015/09/25
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a message offered condolences to the bereaved families of the pilgrims killed in a stampede outside of the holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
News ID: 3367083 Publish Date : 2015/09/24
TEHRAN (IQNA) – More than 700 pilgrims were killed and nearly 800 others injured in a crush during Hajj pilgrimage rituals outside Makkah, Saudi Arabia on Thursday.
News ID: 3367023 Publish Date : 2015/09/24
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Performing the life-time journey of hajj is a dream that came true for Abdi Mohammed, a Kenyan Muslim who has been selling spices for 15 years to make the spiritual pilgrimage to Makkah.
News ID: 3366660 Publish Date : 2015/09/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Members of the Iranian Quranic delegation to Hajj hold Quran recitation sessions for Iranian pilgrims and others in the holy city of Makkah.
News ID: 3366603 Publish Date : 2015/09/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saudi police have seized 70,000 distorted copies of the Quran in a truck, local media reported.
News ID: 3365707 Publish Date : 2015/09/21
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A number of senior Egyptian scholars have joined many others in the Muslim world who have called for a change in the management and running of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
News ID: 3365142 Publish Date : 2015/09/20
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Muslim pilgrims from around the world have been converging on the holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia, for the hajj , the biggest religious gathering on the planet.
News ID: 3365083 Publish Date : 2015/09/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) – As the expansions of the Grand Mosque are about to be completed, Saudi Hajj Ministry announced that pilgrim quotas for each country will increase starting from next hajj season, stressing that 2015 will witness the last cut in the number of pilgrims.
News ID: 3363023 Publish Date : 2015/09/16
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The speaker of Iran's parliament blamed Riyadh for its "negligence" in a deadly crane collapse in Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Makkah.
News ID: 3362213 Publish Date : 2015/09/14
TEHRAN (IQNA) – An Iranian citizen was among at least 107 Hajj pilgrims who lost their lives when a crane fell on Hajjis in the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
News ID: 3361352 Publish Date : 2015/09/12
TEHRAN (IQNA) - Egyptian authorities allowed a first batch of Palestinians to leave the blockaded Gaza Strip through Egypt’s Rafah border crossing to perform the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, according to a Palestinian official.
News ID: 3360890 Publish Date : 2015/09/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Members of Iran’s Quranic delegation hold Quran recitation sessions for Iranian Hajj pilgrims who are in Medina ahead of Hajj.
News ID: 3358131 Publish Date : 2015/09/05
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Head of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization Saeed Ohadi said some 15,000 Iranian Hajjis have arrived in the holy city of Medina so far.
News ID: 3354016 Publish Date : 2015/08/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) – An exhibition featuring Hajj has been mounted at the Islamic Center of England in London.
News ID: 3352773 Publish Date : 2015/08/26
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Hojat-ol-Islam Seyed Ali Qazi-Askar, the representative of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Hajj and Pilgrimage Affairs, and Saeed Ohadi, the head of Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization, on Sunday attended a ceremony at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini (RA) Airport to see off the first batch of Iranian Hajjis leaving for Medina.
News ID: 3350341 Publish Date : 2015/08/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The first batch of Iranian Hajj pilgrims left Tehran’s Imam Khomeini (RA) Airport for the holy city of Medina on Sunday.
News ID: 3350328 Publish Date : 2015/08/23
