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The Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah is organizing a conference and exhibition for Hajj and Umrah services, ” Hajj Expo 2023″, next January. The exhibition will be held in Jeddah to showcase innovative services and solutions to facilitate the…

The US “Bloomberg” news agency criticized what it described as the “shameful silence” of the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, in not addressing the suffering of millions of Uyghur Muslims in the Chinese “Xinjiang” region, during his lengthy and…

Today, the sky of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, will witness the perpendicularity of the growing gibbous moon to the Kaaba. The head of the Astronomical Society in Jeddah, Majid Abu Zahra, explained that the moon will rise in Mecca from the…

The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced a mechanism for obtaining a “personal visit” visa, which enables visitors to enter the Kingdom’s lands to visit their friends or acquaintances who are Saudi citizens, with the possibility of traveling between the…

Saudi authorities have reportedly arrested the wife and daughter of a jailed dissident, as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against political opponents, scholars, human rights activists and pro-democracy campaigners widens in the kingdom. According to media…

The United Nations has condemned the executions carried out by the Saudi authorities continuously, calling for an immediate suspension. A spokeswoman for the UN human rights office said 17 men had been executed in Saudi Arabia since November 10 on…

Over the last two weeks executions have been taking place almost daily in Saudi Arabia after the authorities ended a 21-month unofficial moratorium on the use of the death penalty for drug-related offences. Since 10 November, 17 men have been…

Today, religious and popular circles in the Saudi city of Qatif denounced the authorities’ demolition of the Shia Al-Harif Mosque in the city, and offering its land for sale in a public auction under the supervision of the General Court.…

Saudi Arabian authorities have deported hundreds of Ethiopian migrant workers after keeping them for months in detention centers across the oil-rich kingdom under conditions so degrading that they amount to ill-treatment. According to a report published by ‘The New Khalij’…

Nearly two million pilgrims have so far arrived in Saudi Arabia from all parts of the world to perform the pilgrimage during the current Umrah season. The air, land, and sea ports in the Kingdom recorded the arrival of a…