{"id":13478,"date":"2026-05-21T06:11:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/21\/afghanistan-hajj-pilgrims-transfer-saudi-arabia\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T06:11:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:11:47","slug":"afghanistan-hajj-pilgrims-transfer-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/21\/afghanistan-hajj-pilgrims-transfer-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Completes Transfer of 30,000 Hajj Pilgrims to Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Guidance, Hajj, and Endowments of Afghanistan announced that the transfer process of 30,000 Afghan Hajj pilgrims to Saudi Arabia was completed yesterday. According to the ministry, all pilgrims were transported as scheduled to the cities of Madinah and Makkah. <\/p>\n<p>Based on the provided information, the transfer was carried out in two phases; in the first phase, 14,984 pilgrims were moved to Madinah, and in the second phase, 15,016 were sent to Makkah.<\/p>\n<p>Officials stated that the transfer of pilgrims took place through 97 flights. Every year, thousands of Afghan residents travel to Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj pilgrimage, and this process is coordinated between the relevant institutions of the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan completes the transfer of 30,000 Hajj pilgrims to Saudi Arabia in 97 flights, with arrivals in Madinah and Makkah as scheduled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-religion-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}