MINA, Saudi Arabia -- The Muslim pilgrimage of hajj is a moment of equality before God, with millions massed at Islam's most revered sites asking for ...

During the hajj, the boundaries of ethnicity, race, gender, class and wealth are temporarily erased... The hajj is one of the only, and by far the largest public ritual amongst Muslims in which men and women pray and perform their rites together, in unison.

MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia — Libyans long denied the opportunity to make the hajj usually reserved for Moammar Gadhafi's cronies were among the ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia -- Muslims from across the world descended on this holy city ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage, many of them with prayers for a ...

By Omar Sacirbey Religion News Service (RNS) Reports last month that Iran plotted to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the U.S. have enflam...

At last we came close, but the crowd was too thick for us to touch the stone. Swept along by the human tide, we kept chanting prayers, struggling to touch the stone or the Kaaba whenever possible.

The annual Islamic pilgrimage, or Hajj, to Mecca, Saudi Arabia draws an estimated 2.5 million visitors each year, making it the largest yearly gatheri...

Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, will likely fall on Nov. 6, 2011 in the United States. One of two feast festivals celebrated by Muslims, Eid a...