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TWO billion Muslims have marked the first day of Ramadan, after the the official sighting of the new crescent moon.
The holy month of Ramadan is considered a time of spiritual reflection, fasting and prayers.
Each year, Muslims across the globe abstain from eating or drinking between dawn and sundown during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar.
The first day of Ramadan began yesterday, Tuesday, April 13, 2021.
A health boss has confirmed that Muslims can have a Covid-19 jab during Ramadan without breaking their fast.
David Regan, Manchester’s director of Public Health, said: The vaccine will not invalidate the fast and I would urge anyone who is contacted about their first or second jab during Ramadan to keep their appointment.”
Ramadan 2021: Muslims can get Covid-19 jab without breaking fast, Manchesterâs public health chief confirms
âTaking the vaccine does not break your fast and neither does getting a test for Covid-19.â
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Muslims are being advised that they can take the Covid-19 vaccine during Ramadan without breaking fast.
Taking a coronavirus test, either PCR (polymerase chain reaction) or lateral flow test (LFT), is also safe during this time, Manchesterâs public health chief has added.
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A group of Muslim families are launching a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee about Sri Lanka’s policy of enforced cremation of all those confirmed or suspected to have died with COVID-19, saying that it breaches their religious rights and is causing “untold misery.”
The case seeking interim relief is being brought on behalf of the families by the Muslim Council of Great Britain and with the support of the British law firm Bindmans.
The Sri Lankan government is allegedly enforcing hundreds of cremations, despite international and Sri Lankan medical experts saying that there is no evidence that COVID-19 is communicable
Activists demanding change at an OutRage! demonstration in London in 1995. (Steve Eason/Hulton Archive/Getty)
It is 20 years today since the age of consent was finally equalised in the UK after a bruising, years-long campaign from LGBT+ activists.
Today, queer people enjoy many of the same rights as their straight counterparts in the UK – but that wasn’t always the case. Homosexuality was illegal in all circumstances up until 1967, and same-sex marriage was once just a distant dream.
Among the many legal hurdles queer people had to overcome was the battle to equalise the age of consent. Gay and bisexual men had been governed by a separate age of consent for decades, pushing them further into the shadows in the process.