{"id":58879,"date":"2026-04-18T15:50:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=58879"},"modified":"2026-04-18T15:50:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:50:44","slug":"algerias-hajj-season-2026-kicks-off-april-29-from-algiers-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=58879","title":{"rendered":"Algeria&#8217;s Hajj Season 2026 Kicks Off April 29 from Algiers International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria&#8217;s Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowments, Youcef Belmehdi, has announced full readiness for the Algerian Hajj mission for the 1447H\/2026 season, exclusively telling <strong>dzwatch<\/strong> that the first flights carrying pilgrims to the Holy Land will depart from Algiers International Airport on <strong>April 29, 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came during the opening of a two-day training forum for religious guides at Dar El Imam in Mohammadia, held under the theme: <em>&#8220;The Religious Guide in Hajj: Mission, Responsibility and Development Horizons.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Algerian mission comprises <strong>827 members<\/strong> across various sectors, supported by <strong>204 male and female religious guides<\/strong> \u2014 including scholars and Zawiya leaders \u2014 who will accompany pilgrims from departure airports through Medina, Mecca, and the Holy Sites.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Belmehdi stressed the importance of adhering to moderate religious discourse aligned with Algeria&#8217;s national religious reference and the rulings of the Ministerial Fatwa Committee. He described mission members as <strong>&#8220;bearers of Algeria&#8217;s trust&#8221;<\/strong>, affirming that the Algerian state, under President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, expects performance that reflects Algeria&#8217;s honorable image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria&#8217;s Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowments, Youcef Belmehdi, has announced full readiness for the Algerian Hajj mission for the 1447H\/2026 season, exclusively telling dzwatch that the first flights carrying pilgrims to the Holy Land will depart from Algiers International Airport on April 29, 2026. The announcement came during the opening of a two-day training &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}