Aquino greets Muslims on Eid’l Fitr
President Benigno Aquino on Monday wished Filipino Moslems “lasting peace and meaningful reform” on the Feast of Ramadan.
President Benigno Aquino on Monday wished Filipino Moslems “lasting peace and meaningful reform” on the Feast of Ramadan.
A wave of attacks across Iraq killed at least 53 people on Thursday amid warnings that insurgents would mount deadly attacks ahead of the end of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
Two long weekends await flood-weary residents of Metro Manila and the rest of the country in the next two weeks.
The fourth pillar of Islam is to fast during the month of Ramadhan, the ninth month of the Hijri calendar.
Indonesian police said Monday they have arrested 62 people, most of them minors, involved in attacking a bar in south Jakarta for serving alcohol during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.
At an early age, Muslim children are taught that Ramadan is not mere food deprivation. For 9-year-old Amir Hussien, the Islamic practice would mean a monthlong interval instead of his parents’ usual treat for him and his sister Ma’amor Rubayyat to fast-food chains during daytime on weekends.
From all over the world, a total of 50 medical research papers were presented by Muslim and non-Muslim scientists and scholars of the medical practice in the first International Congress on “Health and Ramadan” in Casablanca in 1994.
Muslims have begun fasting for the start of the Ramadan holy month in Indonesia, Malaysia and elsewhere around Asia, but the somber occasion was marred in Buddhist-dominated Thailand by two bomb blasts that killed one person and injured seven.
US President Barack Obama on Friday praised the courage of dissidents fighting for democracy in Muslim countries, in a message marking the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Muslims from Morocco to Afghanistan are steeling themselves for the toughest Ramadan in more than three decades. No food or drink, not even a sip of water, for 14 hours a day during the hottest time of the year.
Malacañang on Friday extended its greetings of solidarity with the Filipino Muslim community at the start of their observance of the holy month of Ramadan.
COTABATO CITY, Philippines—Filipino Muslims throughout the country will start the month-long observance of Ramadan on Friday; that is, if the moon is sighted Thursday night by Islamic religious observers. Uztads Esmael Ibrahim, chairman of the Ulama Council of the Philippines, said, however, that if the moon is not sighted on Thursday due to cloud cover [...]
COTABATO CITY, Philippines—Bursts of gunfire greeted the end of the month-long daylight fasting of Muslims in Cotabato City and environs despite repeated appeals from authorities for gun owners not to use their weapons in welcoming the feast of Eid’l Fitr. As early as 6:30 p.m. Monday, gun bursts were heard around the city and in [...]
