{"id":49659,"date":"2020-04-23T17:28:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T16:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=49659"},"modified":"2020-04-23T17:28:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T16:28:31","slug":"ramadan-2020-will-start-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/ramadan-2020-will-start-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramadan 2020 will start on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4777\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/How-long-is-the-world-fasting-this-Ramadan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"807\" height=\"452\" \/>Ramadan 2020 will start on Friday April 24, Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Supreme Court announced on Thursday. The holy month this year will be markedly different to previous ones as the coronavirus pandemic has stopped much of the world\u2019s activities, including at places of worship.<br \/>\nThe Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Prophet\u2019s Mosque in Madinah, Islam\u2019s two holiest sites, are effectively empty as both city\u2019s populations are under a full curfew to stop the virus spreading.<br \/>\nWhen Ramadan starts the Kingdom will ease the lockdown so that people can leave their homes to meet necessary needs, such as health care and food supplies, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.<br \/>\nUsually, the two cities swell with visitors each year during Ramadan as pilgrims from across the globe seek the blessings of worshipping at the holy mosques. The Kingdom stopped all pilgrimages in late February to contain the virus.<br \/>\nMore than 1.6 billion Muslims around the world will mark the month, during which believers abstain from eating and drinking from dawn until sunset.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/ramadan-2020-will-start-on-friday\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramadan 2020 will start on Friday April 24, Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Supreme Court announced on Thursday. The holy month this year will be markedly different to previous ones as the coronavirus pandemic has stopped much of the world\u2019s activities, including at places of worship. The Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Prophet\u2019s Mosque in Madinah, Islam\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,26,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49660,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49659\/revisions\/49660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}