{"id":220008,"date":"2026-04-16T06:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=220008"},"modified":"2026-04-16T06:49:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:49:04","slug":"saudi-arabia-sights-crescent-as-fasting-begins-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=220008","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia Sights Crescent As Fasting Begins Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFRICAN EXAMINER) \u2013 Saudi Arabia on Tuesday officially announced the sighting of the crescent moon, marking the beginning of Ramadan 1447. With the hilal confirmed, the holy month of Ramadan will begin on Wednesday, February 18, 2026, while Taraweeh prayers will be held after the Isha prayer tonight&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanexaminer.com\/saudi-arabia-sights-crescent-as-fasting-begins-wednesday\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFRICAN EXAMINER) \u2013 Saudi Arabia on Tuesday officially announced the sighting of the crescent moon,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220008-saudi-arabia-sights-crescent-as-fasting-begins-wednesday.jpg",299,168,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220008-saudi-arabia-sights-crescent-as-fasting-begins-wednesday-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220008-saudi-arabia-sights-crescent-as-fasting-begins-wednesday.jpg",299,168,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220008-saudi-arabia-sights-crescent-as-fasting-begins-wednesday.jpg",299,168,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220008-saudi-arabia-sights-crescent-as-fasting-begins-wednesday.jpg",299,168,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220008-saudi-arabia-sights-crescent-as-fasting-begins-wednesday.jpg",299,168,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220008-saudi-arabia-sights-crescent-as-fasting-begins-wednesday.jpg",299,168,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220008-saudi-arabia-sights-crescent-as-fasting-begins-wednesday.jpg",299,168,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220008-saudi-arabia-sights-crescent-as-fasting-begins-wednesday.jpg",299,168,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220008-saudi-arabia-sights-crescent-as-fasting-begins-wednesday.jpg",299,168,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/220009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}