Religious Affairs Minister: “Our priority is ensuring dignity and comfort of Algerian pilgrims in the holy sites”
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Photo: Bachir Zemri
Algiers airport experienced on Sunday a joyful atmosphere, at the occasion of the pilgrims’ first batch to the holy sites, to perform the fifth pillar, in light of an intense presence of officials, including the Minister of Religious Affairs, who has promised to guarantee the dignity of pilgrims during this season, and enabling him to perform pilgrimage in comfortable conditions.
Unusually, overcrowding was absent at the hall that was devoted to the reception of pilgrims at the Airport of Houari Boumediene, and the organizers interpreted the few number of the first batch pilgrims to the last administrative procedures before pilgrims took the plane towards the holy sites, compared to the previous years, saying that it is due to the tough procedures that are by the biometric passport, although the facilities that were provided by the administration, but they predicted recording flows of pilgrims during the next few days, as about 146 pilgrims along with 20 agents of the civil protection, and Minister of Religious Affairs, Mohamad Aissa, Transport Minister, Amar Ghoul, Tourism Minister, Nouria Zerhouni, the director of the National Office for Hajj and Umrah, Barbara Haj and Algiers governor, along with the General Manager of Civil Protection and officials in security and customs, as well as the new Saudi ambassador, Mahmoud Ben Houssine al-Qattan.
Procedures of receiving pilgrims are conducted in very good conditions, as those are the impressions that we recorded with many of them, who were willing to perform the fifth pillar of Islam, and they carry with them the brochures handed to them at the airport, including steps to perform this duty, at the time complained about the need for a class of learners from a lack of courses formative, as well as the lack of promotion of the media, and student pilgrim last that possess the rest of the pilgrims patient and withstand the rigors of this duty, because it’s not about a trip tourist, was bidding farewell to the pilgrims to the beat of music by the national anthem played by a special group, and took over the director of the Office of Hajj and Umrah throwing the first word he praised the efforts made by the Algerian authorities and Saudi Arabia to regulate this season, especially with regard to housing and transportation, and to provide the necessary services emotion, calling the pilgrims to adhere to religious teachings, and to provide the best image.
