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Thursday, 23 April 2020

UK Muslims prepare to take Ramadan online

Mosques are on lockdown and turning to social media to keep in touch

From rustling up meals to break the fast using recipes on YouTube to listening to sermons via Zoom, this year’s Ramadan will be unique for Britain’s estimated 2.6 million Muslims with a reliance on technology due to coronavirus.

With the first day of fasting due on Friday or Saturday, depending on the sighting of the new moon, mosques in the UK are adapting to the lockdown measures by turning to social media and apps to keep in touch with worshippers by livestreaming motivational lectures, courses and prayers.

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from Islam | The Guardian https://ift.tt/34WJLuG

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