{"id":93648,"date":"2020-09-23T15:12:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T07:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=93648"},"modified":"2020-09-23T15:14:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T07:14:35","slug":"malaysia-to-get-official-info-from-saudi-arabia-on-permission-to-perform-umrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=93648","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia to Get Official Info From Saudi Arabia on Permission to Perform Umrah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PUTRAJAYA (Malaysia),&nbsp;\nSept 23&nbsp; (Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia\nwill get official information regarding permission to perform the Umrah from\nthe Saudi Arabian government, said Minister in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Department\n(Religious Affairs) Dr Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAny decision pertaining to the permission to perform the\nUmrah has to be discussed carefully with the Saudi Arabian government\nfirst,&#8221; he told reporters after opening a seminar at the Putrajaya Islamic\nComplex here Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said this in response to reports which claimed that the\nSaudi Arabian government is reopening its doors in stages for the Umrah\npilgrimage beginning on Oct 4 this year, after closing it for seven months due\nto the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was reported that for a start, about 6,000 residents in\nSaudi Arabia would be allowed to perform the umrah everyday from Oct 4, while\nthose from other countries would be allowed to do so from Nov 1 with the capacity\nincreased to 20,000 people daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zulkifli said he would discuss with the National Security\nCouncil (MKN) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) on the necessary standard\noperating procedures (SOP) that would have to be implemented if Malaysians are\nallowed to perform the umrah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in his speech, Zulkifli said the government\nrecognised the role and contribution of agencies handling the umrah pilgrimage\nfor Malaysians because it is through their excellent governance that Malaysia\nhas become a model for other Islamic countries in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUTRAJAYA (Malaysia),&nbsp; Sept 23&nbsp; (Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia will get official information regarding permission to perform the Umrah from the Saudi Arabian government, said Minister in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Department (Religious Affairs) Dr Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri. \u201cAny decision pertaining to the permission to perform the Umrah has to be discussed carefully with the Saudi Arabian government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":85546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93648"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}