Daily Archives: August 20, 2018

Hajj 2018: Pre-dawn hours on Sunday in Makkah

Press ReleaseBy Center for International CommunicationAugust 20, 2018

MAKKAH, August 19 (CIC) – Various scenes showing Muslim pilgrims from every corner of the globe gathered in the holy city of Makkah in the pre-dawn hours on Sunday, ahead of the start of the pilgrimage later that day. By this time, pilgrims would have performed Umrah, the minor Islamic pilgrimage, and are getting ready…

Saudi Arabia Offers 2 Million Gigabytes of Internet Access to 2 Million Pilgrims

Press ReleaseBy Center for International CommunicationAugust 20, 2018

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology teams with the Kingdom’s service providers to ease communication between pilgrims and their families back home   JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, August 19, 2018 – The Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and the Communications and Information Technology Commission announced an initiative to provide a total of two million…