Saudi Arabia to allow one million hajj pilgrims this year ...Kuwait

Saudi Arabia said on Saturday it would permit one million Muslims from inside and outside the country to participate in this year's hajj, a sharp uptick after Covid-19 restrictions forced two years of drastically pared-down pilgrimages. The hajj ministry "has authorised one million pilgrims, both foreign and domestic, to perform the hajj this year," it said in a statement. The Covid-19 pandemic has hugely disrupted Muslim pilgrimages, which are usually key revenue earners for the kingdom, bringing in some $12 billion annually. Hosting the pilgrimages is a matter of prestige for Saudi rulers, for whom the custodianship of Islam's holiest sites is their most powerful so

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