{"id":20597,"date":"2021-06-04T19:40:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T14:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=20597"},"modified":"2021-06-04T19:59:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T14:59:22","slug":"indonesia-cancelled-hajj-2021-pilgrimage-for-second-year-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/20597","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia cancelled Hajj 2021 pilgrimage for second year in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jakarta, Indonesia,<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia has cancelled the Hajj 2021 pilgrimage for people in the world&#8217;s largest Muslim-majority nation for a second year in a row due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, the religious affairs minister said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Yaqut Cholil Qoumas told a briefing to Saudi Arabia, where the pilgrimage takes place, had not opened access to Hajj.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, more than 220,000 people from the world&#8217;s biggest Muslim-majority country were set to take part in Hajj, which all Muslims must perform at least once in their lives if able.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia&#8217;s decision was a disappointment for some who have been on a pilgrimage waiting list for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jakarta, Indonesia, Indonesia has cancelled the Hajj 2021 pilgrimage for people in the world&#8217;s largest Muslim-majority nation for a second year in a row due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, the religious affairs minister said on Thursday. Minister Yaqut Cholil Qoumas told a briefing to Saudi Arabia, where the pilgrimage takes place, had not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1461,3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-featured","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20599,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20597\/revisions\/20599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}