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Upcoming Festivals and Holy Days – clarification

02 March 2016
2 ‘Alá’ 172 B.E.

To all believers in the United Kingdom

Dearly loved Friends,

We send you our warmest regards.

Further to the National Spiritual Assembly’s letter dated 27 February 2016 on the subject of upcoming festivals and Holy Days, we would like to provide a clarification with regard to the end of the Fast. This year, the Fast will end at sunset on 19 March, at which point Naw-Rúz immediately begins. Naw-Rúz then concludes at sunset on 20 March.

We hope this may be of assistance.

With loving Bahá’í greetings,
Department of the Secretariat
National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United Kingdom

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