{"id":2222,"date":"2016-12-11T14:09:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T06:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2016-12-05T06:57:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T22:57:56","slug":"saudi-arabia-cancels-fees-for-hajj-umrah-visas-middle-east-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/saudi-arabia-cancels-fees-for-hajj-umrah-visas-middle-east-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia cancels fees for Hajj, Umrah visas \u2013 Middle East Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20161203-saudi-arabia-cancels-fees-for-hajj-umrah-visas\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2016\/12\/hajj-kabaa-umrah-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia has issued a royal decree that will cancel Hajj and Umrah visa fees starting from this year, a member of the High Committee for Hajj and Umrah, Nasir Toruk, announced.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to cancel the new imposed charges came after protests of Egyptians and Muslims in other countries about the fees that are perceived to be expensive, <i>Alborsa<\/i> <i>News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the cancellation of the newly imposed charges, Saudi Arabia would grant two free visas for each licensed company working in the field of Hajj and Umrah.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Saudi authorities called for the Egyptians to reform the body which governs the Egyptian companies specialised in this kind of religious tourism.<\/p>\n<p>The former head of the Religious Tourism Committee in Egypt, Basel Al-Sisi, said that the cancellation of the charges would have a positive impact on the religious tourism sector, noting the Saudi move as a \u201cpositive measure in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20161203-saudi-arabia-cancels-fees-for-hajj-umrah-visas\/\">Saudi Arabia cancels fees for Hajj, Umrah visas \u2013 Middle East Monitor<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia has issued a royal decree that will cancel Hajj and Umrah visa fees starting from this year, a member of the High Committee for Hajj and Umrah, Nasir Toruk, announced. The decision to cancel the new imposed charges came after protests of Egyptians and Muslims in other countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[475],"tags":[400,64,399,401],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news","tag-fees-hajj-and-umrah","tag-news","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-visas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}