{"id":45748,"date":"2022-05-02T11:38:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T11:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/muslims-in-rwanda-celebrate-eid-al-fitr-pictorial\/"},"modified":"2022-05-05T13:52:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T13:52:52","slug":"muslims-in-rwanda-celebrate-eid-al-fitr-pictorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/muslims-in-rwanda-celebrate-eid-al-fitr-pictorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslims in Rwanda celebrate Eid al-Fitr (Pictorial)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The event has been celebrated at Nyamirambo Stadium at national level.  <\/p>\n<p>The Mufti of Rwanda, Sheihk Salim Hitimana urged Muslims to be compassionate and take care of the needy. <\/p>\n<p>The prayer service was attended by people of different age brackets from children to the youth and the elderly. <\/p>\n<p>The Rwanda Defence Force Army Chief of Staff, Lt Gen Mubarakh Muganga and the President of Rwanda Cycling Federation (FERWACY), Abdallah Murenzi were among those who turned up at the stadium for prayers.  <\/p>\n<p>As part of celebrations of this day, Muslims usually gather for prayers in the morning and proceed to share lunch and joy of the day with friends, relatives and neighbours.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42145 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/23-3674-1ca8c-2.jpg\" alt=\"The prayer service was attended by people of different age brackets. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42153 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/541a1818-bb76c.jpg\" alt=\"The Mufti of Rwanda, Sheihk Salim Hitimana urged Muslims to be compassionate. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42157 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/541a1845-2-c072b.jpg\" alt=\"FERWACY President, Abdallah Murenzi was among those who turned up at the stadium for prayers. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42158 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/541a1868-2-8f0de.jpg\" alt=\"The Rwanda Defence Force Army Chief of Staff, Lt Gen Mubarakh Muganga was also present. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42146 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/541a1776-5e822.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42147 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/541a1781-39780.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42148 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/541a1786-02092.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42149 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/541a1789-d6f5f.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42150 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/541a1794-2e14c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42151 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/541a1804-eb668.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42152 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/541a1805-6d221.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42154 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/541a1831-59f12.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42154 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/541a1831-59f12.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42155 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/541a1833-b1bd0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42156 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/541a1836-828e8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Muslims from different parts of Rwanda have turned up for prayers in celebration of Ed al-Fitr. Eid al-Fitr is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-45748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45748"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=45748"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=45748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}