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Vice President Boediono has urged Indonesian diplomats dealing with hajj pilgrimage affairs in Saudi Arabia to strive ...

Saudi authorities have rejected claims that holy Zamzam water from a spring inside the Grand Mosque complex of Mecca ...

A suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of Shiite pilgrims inside a mosque in the central Iraqi town of ...

Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday urged "diplomacy and dialogue" instead of arms in Libya and prayed that "human dignity may ...

Police in Rome seized thousands of pope John Paul II knock-off watches and novelty devices on Wednesday in a crackdown ...

The government will tighten its control on travel agencies organizing minor hajj pilgrimage (umroh) because some 30 ...

Tens of thousands of Indonesians who overstayed their visas and have taken refuge under several bridges in Saudi ...

The Indonesian government is seeking an increase in the quota of hajj pilgrims for 2011 from 211,000 in 2010 to ...

Indonesia will ask for a bigger hajj quota from the Saudi government for this year`s hajj pilgrimage season, Religious ...

Religious Minister Suryadharma Ali said he has made a request, which is in practice difficult to fulfill by the Saudi ...

A car bomb detonated by a suicide attacker in the central Iraqi city of Samarra killed 10 policemen and wounded 16 ...

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday afternoon summoned People`s Welfare Coordinating Minister Agung ...

The toll from a suicide bombing that targeted Shi`ite pilgrims near the city of Samarra, one of Iraq`s worst in recent ...

The number of Indonesians going to Mecca for umroh (minor hajj) services this year is estimated to increase from ...

A massive car bomb ripped through a funeral ceremony in a Shiite district of Baghdad on Thursday, killing 48 people in ...