Saudi bans names deemed ‘anti-Sharia’

Saudi authorities have announced bans on names considered to violate Islamic Sharia law. The restrictions come amid Interior Ministry’s Civil Affairs Agency introducing new rules for registering names in the kingdom.

Saudi Arabia fails in bid to join UN rights council

Saudi Arabia has failed to join the United Nations Human Rights Council after an international non-governmental organization called on the United Nations (UN) to refuse Riyadh’s bid.

Mecca to reopen for limited pilgrimages after 7-month pause for virus

Saudi Arabia will reopen the Muslim holy places for the year-round umrah pilgrimage on Sunday, scaled back and with extensive health precautions, seven months after coronavirus prompted its suspension.

Saudi Arabia unveils health measures that will allow pilgrims to visit Mecca

Saudi Arabia has released new details on how it plans to gradually allow Muslims back to Islam’s holiest site in Mecca to perform the smaller, year-round pilgrimage, which has been suspended for the past seven months due to the coronavirus.

Is Saudi Arabia setting the stage to forge ties with Israel?

Although the Imam of Mecca faced heat on social media for invoking Islam to indirectly justify normalisation with Israel, experts think that Riyadh may not be fully prepared to take such a brazen step.

Muslim pilgrims perform last Hajj ritual in Makkah

According to the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA), after completing the major pillar of Hajj, the pilgrims descended Thursday from Mt. Arafat to the plain of Muzdalifah, where they spent the night, before heading in the morning to Mina, east of the holy city of Makkah.

Muslim pilgrims scale Mount Arafat for peak of hajj

A tight security cordon has been erected all around the foot of the rocky hill outside Mecca, also known as Jabal al-Rahma or Mount of Mercy, for the high point of the annual ritual.

Deputy secretary-general of al-Nujaba:

Al-Kazemiz’s weak government cause of House of Saud’s impudence/Saudi Arabia a takfiri Regime

Al-Nujaba’s deputy secretary-general for seminary issues, in a live talk with Aletejah TV channel, condemning the insult of the Saudi paper, al-Sharq al-Awsat, stated, “This insult is a part of a comprehensive program for aggression towards the Iraqi sovereignty, land, nation, sources of emulation and national myths”, reported al-Nujaba’s Centre for Communications and Media Affairs in Iran.

Saudi to allow around 1,000 pilgrims to perform hajj

“The number of pilgrims will be around 1,000, maybe less, maybe a little more,” Hajj Minister Mohammad Benten told reporters.

Coronavirus: 25,000 British Muslims set to miss out on Hajj

The annual pilgrimage sees 2.5 million Muslims, including around 25,000 from Britain, travel to Mecca to attend prayers at the Masjid al Haram, gather on Mount Arafat and sleep under the stars on the plains of Muzdalifah.

Saudi Arabia in ‘Secret’ Talks with Israel over Control of Al-Aqsa: Report

The Islamic Waqf Council is a Jordanian-appointed body, which oversees Muslim sites in al – Quds and has exclusive authority over the Al-Aqsa Compound.

Saudi mosques reopen for prayers after closure

Worshipers were allowed to enter the mosques, except the mosques in the holy city of Makkah, for the dawn prayers with a limit of 40% capacity.

Mecca to gradually ease virus restrictions from May 31

The first phase will begin on May 31, in which entering and exiting Mecca will be allowed between 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Saudi Arabia locks down Shia-majority region using coronavirus as excuse

In a statement released on Sunday, the Saudi Interior Ministry said no one would be allowed to enter or exit Qatif and that work at all public and private sectors in the region had been suspended with the exception of institutions providing necessary services.