{"id":73948,"date":"2015-06-17T03:12:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T03:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=73948"},"modified":"2015-06-17T03:12:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T03:12:32","slug":"ramadan-starts-thursday-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=73948","title":{"rendered":"Ramadan Starts Thursday in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 4.5pt 0in; line-height: 14.5pt; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #141823;\">The holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from dawn to dusk, begins in the Kingdom on Thursday, 18th June, 2015, Saudi Arabia Supreme Judiciary Council announced Tuesday, June 16, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 4.5pt; line-height: 14.5pt; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #141823;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 4.5pt; line-height: 14.5pt; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #141823;\">\u201cAs nobody sighted the Ramadan crescent on Tuesday evening, Wednesday, 17th June is the last day of Shaaban and Thursday is the first day of Ramadan,\u201d the council said in an official statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 4.5pt 0in; line-height: 14.5pt; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #141823;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 4.5pt 0in; line-height: 14.5pt; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #141823;\">Meanwhile, Sierra Leone\u2019s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Alhaji M.S. Kargbo has congratulated all Muslims in advance on the advent of the holy month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 4.5pt 0in; line-height: 14.5pt; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #141823;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 4.5pt 0in; line-height: 14.5pt; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #141823;\">He called on all Sierra Leoneans to use this holy period to pray for the speedy eradication of the Ebola Virus Disease in Sierra Leone and Guinea. The envoy also asked his compatriots to pray for peace, progress, prosperity and development in their country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 4.5pt 0in; line-height: 14.5pt; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 4.5pt 0in; line-height: 14.5pt; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from dawn to dusk, begins in the Kingdom on Thursday, 18th June, 2015, Saudi Arabia Supreme Judiciary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,808],"tags":[20376],"class_list":["post-73948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-religious-affairs","tag-ramadan-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}