CAIRO: Saudi Arabia is hosting its biggest Hajj pilgrimage in three years, starting on Monday. But for many pilgrims, global inflation and economic crises made it more of a strain to carry out Islam's spiritual trip of a lifetime.

Mohammed, a university professor in the Egyptian capital Cairo, said it was an annual tradition for him to go on Hajj. But not this time.

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