Saudi Arabia Lifts Restrictions On Hajj Pilgrims This Year

Saudi Arabia will not impose limits on the number of hajj pilgrims this year. (File)

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia:

Saudi Arabia will not impose limits on the number of hajj pilgrims this year, a Saudi minister said Monday, after three years of restrictions to curb the Covid-19 pandemic.

“The number of pilgrims will return to what it was before the pandemic, without any age limit,” Minister of Hajj and Umrah Tawfiq al-Rabiah told reporters in Riyadh.

The pilgrimage is one of five pillars of Islam, which all able-bodied Muslims with the means are required to perform at least once.

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