Religious Affairs Ministry prepares a special program to protect pilgrims from the “Arab Spring”
Algerian pilgrims
Minister of Religious Affairs, Abou Abdallah Ghoulam Allah, will pay, this week a working visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to explore the map of buildings before making a final decision on the liberalization of prices for rent, a measure that was refused by the travel agencies, which threatened to boycott the season, at the time, the ministry prepared an extensive program to train pilgrims psychologically, and immunize them from ideas that may promote an imported “Arab spring” with negative consequences.
Abou Abdullah Ghoulam Allah, is expected to travel to the holy sites in a visit titled “mission of exploring the map of buildings in the holy sites”, accompanied with an important delegation, which includes officials in the office of the Hajj and Umrah, to determine the status of buildings after authorities in Saudi Arabia began in a large process of demolition for the expansion of the campus, as he will also hold a work meeting with his Saudi counterpart, to determine the total cost of the Hajj, which did not exceed 32 million centimes, and will also decide about the resolution, which has sparked controversy amid travel agencies, which is the liberation of prices of renting hotels.
In the context of the preparation of pilgrims, in anticipation of performing the fifth duty, Ghlamallah ministry, started in the preparation for an intensive program that will target the pilgrims who will perform this duty for the first time, in order to protect them from the prospect of receiving false ideas about the “Arab Spring”, which Algeria considered it an imported with negative repercussions, as pilgrims will receive psychological and pedagogical preparation at the level of mosques, in coordination with the imams and religious counselors.