{"id":71189,"date":"2016-06-06T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f54d32a392566f23dd555b3a89b439e4"},"modified":"2016-06-06T09:54:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T09:54:00","slug":"news-story-greg-clarks-ramadan-message-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71189","title":{"rendered":"News story: Greg Clark’s Ramadan message 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Communities Secretary, Greg Clark said:<\/p>\n

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As Muslim communities across the United Kingdom come together, it is a time for us all to reflect on the importance of compassion and how we can better help one another.<\/p>\n

The monies raised for charity, during this special month of fasting and prayer, are astonishing, with some estimates suggesting that this year they will top \u00a3100 million.<\/p>\n

But this support does not only manifest itself in monies raised.<\/p>\n

Mosques around the country are once again opening their doors to the whole community, to show non-Muslims what Ramadan is all about it, bringing people of all faiths and none together as part of the Big Iftar.<\/p>\n

Mosques like the Makkah Mosque in Leeds, which I visited last week, will be welcoming their wider community in on 9 June to break the fast, to share in good company and no doubt share some great food.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just mosques, volunteers from churches, synagogues, community centres and schools will all be welcoming local residents to join the fast-breaking meal and encouraging people to build new friendships.<\/p>\n

I wish you well over the forthcoming month and a very peaceful Ramadan.<\/p>\n

Ramadan Mubarak.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Communities Secretary Greg Clark’s Ramadan message to Muslims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}