Eid Al Fitr will begin on Thursday, Saudi Arabia has announced, after astronomers at the Tumair observatory in the kingdom were unable to spot the new moon.
If the moon had been seen, Eid Al Fitr would have begun a day earlier.
Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court earlier called on all Muslims to sight the Shawwal crescent, or new moon, on Tuesday, the 29th night of the holy month of Ramadan.
Muslims follow a lunar calendar, which is made up of 12 months in a year of 354 or 355 days.
Muslims traditionally celebrate Eid with large gatherings of family and friends, where worshippers can pray and break their fasts together.
Health and religious authorities in Saudi Arabia have put in place precautionary measures at more than 20,000 mosques around the country in an effort to limit the spread of Covid-19 during the celebrations, Spa reported.
The Ministry of Islamic Affairs is calling on volunteers to help worshippers follow social-distancing guidelines at thousands of mosques around the country.
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Tuesday
Sevilla v Maribor
Spartak Moscow v Liverpool
Manchester City v Shakhtar Donetsk
Napoli v Feyenoord
Besiktas v RB Leipzig
Monaco v Porto
Apoel Nicosia v Tottenham Hotspur
Borussia Dortmund v Real Madrid
Wednesday
Basel v Benfica
CSKA Moscow Manchester United
Paris Saint-Germain v Bayern Munich
Anderlecht v Celtic
Qarabag v Roma (8pm)
Atletico Madrid v Chelsea
Juventus v Olympiakos
Sporting Lisbon v Barcelona
How much sugar is in chocolate Easter eggs?
- The 169g Crunchie egg has 15.9g of sugar per 25g serving, working out at around 107g of sugar per egg
- The 190g Maltesers Teasers egg contains 58g of sugar per 100g for the egg and 19.6g of sugar in each of the two Teasers bars that come with it
- The 188g Smarties egg has 113g of sugar per egg and 22.8g in the tube of Smarties it contains
- The Milky Bar white chocolate Egg Hunt Pack contains eight eggs at 7.7g of sugar per egg
- The Cadbury Creme Egg contains 26g of sugar per 40g egg
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Name: Yousef Al Bahar
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Education: Mr Al Bahar was born in 1979 and graduated in 2008 from the Judicial Institute. He took after his father, who was one of the first Emirati lawyers
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