Befitting
this year’s haj slogan ‘The Kingdom Embraces the World’, Saudi Arabia is
hosting more than 800 media professionals from outside the Kingdom to cover the
Haj ritual.
It
is anticipated between two or three million haj pilgrims from around the globe
will converge in the annual ritual between Aug 19 and 24.
Saudi’s Information
Minister Dr Awad Saleh Al-Awad said the
government took great pride in facilitating these journalists by providing them
services, facilities and accommodation.
The ministry had equipped several media centres in Makkah and other
holy places this year to serve journalists and media
professionals from inside and outside the Kingdom.
“The
government also provided them with all the services needed by the press such as
technology, communication networks, computers and studios,” he told reporters
after visiting the headquarters of the Ministry of Radio and Television and
the Saudi Press Agency and information centres in Arafat, Muzdalifah and Mina
on Thursday.
“It
is a great effort to host the large number of guests and facilitate
their obligatory performance, with six official radio stations and 10
international broadcasters in 10 languages, providing news bulletins and daily
programs on Haj, and 16 direct digital publishing channels in six languages,
working around the clock covering the
pilgrimage season in a creative, fast and innovative way,” said Dr Awad.
Known
as the world’s largest gathering, the Haj ritual will see pilgrims performing
their duties among others such as Tawaf (circumambulation around the Kaaba),
casting stones and the S’ai between the hills of Safa and
Marwa.
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