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2 unusual facts about fasting


Guru Radha Kishan

After India gained independence Kishan undertook a fast unto death for 24 days to promote the cause of textile workers in Delhi prior to became the youngest member of Delhi Municipal Committee.

Panuganti shalem raju -madigas pride in andhrapradesh

He led a movement for housing for dalits in Cumbum in that he did a fast unto death that changes scenario of dalit movement in west Prakasam where feudalistics remnants are still there and also he fought for 200 acres of assignment land distribution for dalits, and backward castes in Magutur village, Ardhaveedu mandal.


Barium sulfate suspension

The patient is instructed to take nothing by mouth, which means to abstain from eating and drinking (fasting), with the exception of drinking the barium sulfate suspension.

Commandments of the Church

Thus in a book of tracts of the thirteenth century attributed to Pope Celestine V (though the authenticity of this work has been denied) a separate tractate is given to the precepts of the Church and is divided into four chapters, the first of which treats of fasting, the second of confession and paschal Communion, the third of interdicts on marriage, and the fourth of tithes.

Fast offering

Over time, this practice was changed: the members, who were primarily farmers and laborers, had difficulty fasting on a day of regular labor, so the day of observance was changed to Sunday; and when money, in the form of specie instead of barter, became more available in the Utah Territory, members were encouraged to make their donations in cash, which could better be held until needed to purchase food.

Gerardo Sandoval

Sandoval introduced a resolution "condemning the defamatory language used by talk radio host Michael Savage" after Savage criticized illegal alien protesters who were fasting in support of the controversial DREAM Act, which would give qualifying illegal aliens a path to US citizenship as well as enable them to receive tax payer funded in-state college tuition.

Inishbiggle

Its name in Irish means "Island of Fasting." The island is situated between the northeast of Achill Island and the mainland, and is accessed by boat from either Doran's point at Ballycroy or Bullsmouth, Dooniver on Inishbiggle.

Islamic marital jurisprudence

Specific occasions (most notably daytime fasting (see sawm) and menstruation) are times forbidden for intercourse, though not for other ways of touching and being close to one another.

John Brande Morris

Having joined the Tractarian Movement, in 1839 Morris was briefly left to deputize for John Henry Newman at St Mary's, Oxford, the university church: he alarmed his audience with a sermon on angels and fasting, "declaring inter alia that the brute creation should be made to fast on fast days".

Minuscule 330

: 1 Corinthians 7:5 it has unique reading τη προσευχη και νηστεια (prayer and fasting) supported only by 451 and John of Damascus.

Minuscule 451

In 1 Corinthians 7:5 it has unique reading τη προσευχη και νηστεια (prayer and fasting); the reading is supported only by 451, and John of Damascus.

Mormonism and Islam

Islam has as one of its "five pillars" the practice of Sawm, which is not merely fasting from all food and drink (including water), but equally from impure thoughts, words and deeds.

Nicholas Shaxton

From inquiries made at Cambridge he learned that the vice-chancellor had censured two points in a sermon which Shaxton had preached on Ash Wednesday: first, that it was wrong to assert publicly that there was no Purgatory, but not damnable to think so; and, secondly, that no man could be chaste by prayers or fasting unless God made him so.

Order of Penitents

Fasting, which had always been part of the penitential discipline, became more regularized, and three major times of fasting were observed, Advent, Lent (prior to Easter), and a period after Pentecost.

Pan-Asia International School

The first semester runs from mid-August to mid-December and students observe the Eid al-Fitr Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting, and Eid al-Adha as well as Loy Krathong.

Quadragesima

Lent, the Christian period of fasting, prayer and alsmgiving

Queequeg

As part of his religion, he practices a prolonged period of fasting and silence (which Ishmael calls his "Ramadan"), at one time locking himself in his room in Nantucket.

Rabiu Ibrahim

Ibrahim is a practising Muslim, and observes fasting during the Islamic month of Ramadan.

Rukmangada

As usual, Rukmangudu takes a ritual bath, anoints himself with the Kumkuma-chandanam (vermilion and sandalwood) pastes sacred to Vishnu, and sits down to his pooja before the idol of Vishnu, to spend the day in prayer, meditation and fasting.

Saghir Akhtar

Akhtar has also provided health advice for fasting during Ramadan.

Savitri Brata

Savitri Brata(Oriya:ସାବିତ୍ରୀ ଓଷା or ସାବିତ୍ରୀ ବ୍ରତ) or Savitri Amavasya(Oriya:ସାବିତ୍ରୀ ଅମାବାସ୍ୟା) is a fasting day observed by all Hindu Oriya married women on the Amavasya, the last day of the dark fortnight, in the month of Jyestha.

Shawwal

These six days of fasting together with the Ramadan fasts, are equivalent to fasting all year round.

Shovavim

Some have the customs of study laws relating to such transgressions, fasting and giving extra tzedakah during this time, and of reciting Selichos and other Kabbalistic prayers and tikkunim (Kabbalistic prayers or meditations) designed to counteract their harmful effects.

Tsiknopempti

Tsiknopempti happens on the Thursday of the week of Κρεατινή, during which large amounts of meat are traditionally consumed prior to the arrival of Lent, the fasting season leading up to Easter.

Udappu

The 18-day period is spent in prayer and fasting, with a priest reciting the Mahabharata epic to remind everyone of the story of Draupadi, the five Pandava brothers' common wife, whose chaste and virtuous ways enabled her to recover the kingdom they been deprived of by King Duryodhana.

Water fasting

Paul C. Bragg referred to this energy as the "Vital Force," and popularized water fasting with his many books including Bragg Health Crusades, and promotion by Hollywood celebrities such as Stephanie Morgan and Clint Eastwood.

Yom HaShoah

In 1984, Conservative Rabbi David Golinkin wrote an article in the journal Conservative Judaism suggesting a program of observance for the holiday, including fasting.

In 1984, Conservative Rabbi David Golinkin wrote an article in Conservative Judaism journal suggesting a program of observance for the holiday, including fasting.


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