RP cuts passport costs to Mecca

Thu, 11 Apr 1996, 00:00 WIB | Source: AFP

MANILA (AFP): The Philippines announced yesterday that it was
slashing passport fees for Filipino Moslems making their first
pilgrimage to Mecca this month.

"I have further instructed that the passport fee for Haj
participants be reduced from 500 pesos to 75 pesos (from US$19
dollars to $2.8)," President Fidel Ramos said in a statement.

About five percent of the largely Roman Catholic Philippine
population are Moslems. Ramos did not say how many pilgrims were
making the trip to the city in Saudi Arabia this year.

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