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In this Sunday, April 19, 2020, file photo, people attend evening prayers while maintaining a level of social distancing to help avoid the spread of the coronavirus, at a mosque in Karachi, Pakistan. As Ramadan begins with the new moon later this week, Muslims all around the world are trying to work out how to maintain the many cherished rituals of Islam’s holiest month. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan, File)

Muslims try to keep Ramadan spirit amid virus restrictions

By Samy Magdy and Lee Keathy - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, April 1, 2020 photo, Rev. Blythe Denham Kieffer, the pastor and head of staff at Westminster Presbyterian Church poses in Springfield, Ill. She said she has come to embrace and teach the fruits of &quot;transcendent perspective,&quot; which means to be able &quot;to look beyond what is in front of us. Because of faith in a loving God who is for each of us and all of us, we can look beyond the immediate crisis, wait with hope while honoring the guidelines for the well-being of our communities and world.&quot; (Ted Schurter/The State Journal-Register via AP)

In pandemic, faithful still see a higher power at work

By STEVEN SPEARIE - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 18, 2020, file photo, an American tourist looks at the great Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha at the Citadel complex, in Cairo, Egypt. Muslims will be grappling during the upcoming Islamic holy month of Ramadan with how to observe familiar rituals in a time of unfamiliarity after the coronavirus has disrupted Islamic worship. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Muslims grapple with Ramadan rituals in coronavirus era

By MARIAM FAM - Associated Press

In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses the nation in a televised speech in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, April 9, 2020. Iran's supreme leader suggested Thursday that mass gatherings in the Islamic Republic may be barred through the holy Muslim fasting month Ramadan amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s Khamenei: Mass Ramadan events may stop over virus

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

In this Aug. 13, 2019, file photo taken with a slow shutter speed, Muslim pilgrims circumambulate the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the hajj pilgrimage in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, halted travel to the holiest sites in Islam over fears of the global outbreak of the new coronavirus just months ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage, a move coming as the Mideast has over 220 confirmed cases of the illness. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Saudi Arabia halts pilgrimages over virus; Iran cases spike

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Police: Suspect in 2005 Virginia student slaying arrested

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Muslim students balance schoolwork, fasting during Ramadan

By MICHELLE MERLIN and ASHLEY STALNECKER and The (Allentown) Morning Call - Associated Press

A Lebanese Army investigator checks his mobile phone outside a building where clashes erupted between Lebanese troops and a a former member of the Islamic State group, who had engaged in an hours-long shootout with the security forces, Tripoli, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. Lebanon's interior minister said Tuesday, that a lone gunman who went on a shooting spree in the northern city of Tripoli, killing four security personnel, was working alone. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Deadly shooting shakes Lebanese city, culprit a ‘lone wolf’

By HASSAN AMMAR and ANDREA ROSA - Associated Press

Turkey's Muslims offer prayers during the first day of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at the Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul, early Tuesday, June 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Moon sightings, politics play a part in Muslim holiday

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Illustration on Ramadan and peace by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

A Ramadan for the world

By Mohammad bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa

Israeli police officers gather at the scene of a stabbing attack near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, May 31, 2019. The incident occurred just hours before weekly Friday prayers at the nearby Al-Aqsa Mosque, when tens of thousands of people are expected for Ramadan prayers. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

2 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in separate events

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

In this Sunday, May 26, 2019 photo, a Palestinian athlete poses for a picture at Techno-Gym in Gaza City. The Gaza Strip has a booming nocturnal gym scene that comes alive past midnight during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan, catering to Palestinians ready to reform their Ramadan routine. Besides self-discipline and prayer intended to bring adherents closer to God, the month is famed for its lavish meals and heavy desserts that follow a daylong fast, fueling weight-gain concerns among a growing group of middle-class men in the Palestinian enclave. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

During Ramadan, late-night gyms boom in the Gaza Strip

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

Sujitno Sajuti and wife Dhalia of West Hartford stand outside the Unitarian Universalist Church, Friday, May 31, 2019 in Meriden, Conn. Sajuti, a former Fulbright scholar who has been fighting deportation to his native Indonesia left the sanctuary of a Connecticut church Friday after 598 days. Sujitno Sajuti had been living inside Meriden’s Unitarian Universalist church with his wife, Dahlia, since being ordered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2017 to board a plane. (Dave Zajac/Record-Journal via AP)

Former Fulbright scholar leaves sanctuary after 598 days

By PAT EATON-ROBB - Associated Press

n a Saturday, May 18, 2019 photo, thousands attend the Ramadan Suhoor Festival in Dearborn Heights, Mich. The festival has a specific purpose beyond the carnival atmosphere and bountiful buffet; a chance to gather during the Muslim holy month in which worshippers fast daily from dawn through dusk. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Foodies, faithful flock to Metro Detroit Ramadan festivals

By JEFF KAROUB - Associated Press

In this Monday, May 20, 2019, file photo, Facebook's Managing Director for the Middle East and North Africa Ramez Shehadi speaks to The Associated Press at the Facebook office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Ramadan in Mideast is for fasting and Facebook, data shows

By Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

Focusing on faith: Ramadan and the student athlete

By JANE HAVSY - Associated Press

Afghan municipality workers clean a road in front of the damaged buildings, a day after an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 9, 2019. Taliban fighters attacked the offices of a U.S.-based aid organization in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, setting off a huge explosion and battling security forces in an assault, the Interior Ministry said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Blasts rock Afghanistan’s Jalalabad, killing 3, wounding 20

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

Palestinians pray in front of the Dome of the Rock shrine during a holy month of Ramadan, in Jerusalem, Friday, May 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Muslims gather in Jerusalem for first Ramadan Friday prayers

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FILE - In this June 30, 2014 file photo, an Indian Muslim father holds the hands of his daughter in his palms and prays before breaking fast on the first day of holy month Ramadan at the Jama Mosque in New Delhi, India. Most Muslims around the world began fasting on Monday, May 6, 2019, for the start of the month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

A look at the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

Libyans hold a demonstration at Martyrs' Square against military operations by forces loyal to Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter in Tripoli, Libya, Friday, May 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed)

Libyan commander urges troops to press fight to take Tripoli

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press