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======================================== 2010 |  ** Schedule Alerts - Days on which those celebrating the occasion customarily wish or take time off from work. ** March 20, 2010
Now Ruz (New Year) - Afghanistan, Zoroastrian, Islam Ismaili, Bahá’í, Iran | | It means 'new day' and is celebrated by Muslims of Persian heritage or influence and by all Ismaili Muslims around the world. The Zoroastrian New Year celebrates the creation of fire on this day on which Zarathustra received his revelation. | ** March 28, 2010
Mahavira Jayanti (Jain) | | This day celebrates the birthday of Lord Mahavira who was the 24th leader of the Jain religion and born around 599 B.C. | ** March 30, 2010
Pesach /Passover (Jewish) | | Pesach lasts for eight days. This time commemorates the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. It begins with a ritual meal 'Seder' when no leavened bread is consumed with special prayers and symbolic foods. | ** March 30, 2010
Songkran/New Year (Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand) | | In southeast Asia, Songkran is recognized as the New Year for Buddhists. For Thais, it is a three-day religious festival in which homes are routinely cleaned, and water is sprinkled on monks paying visits and on statues of Buddha. | ** Schedule Alerts - Days on which those celebrating the occasion customarily wish or take time off from work. ** April 2, 2010
Good Friday (Christian / Coptic & Eastern Orthodox) | | This day commemorates the passion and death by crucifixion of Jesus and is a solemn day. Eastern Orthodox members fast, Macedonians make a plashtanitsa or picture of the dead Jesus on a large cloth to be carried in a procession, Italian Catholics have a procession called the Way of the Cross. |
** April 3, 2010
Pasha/Easter (Christian / Coptic & Eastern Orthodox) | | This day celebrates the resurrection of Jesus from his grave. Most Christians welcome Easter Sunday with a sunrise service. | ** April 13, 2010
Baisakhi (Bangaldesh, Sikh, Hindu) | | The first day of the solar year, this is an agricultural festival celebrating the harvest especially in North India. In Kerala, South India this day is called Vishu. Especially important to the Sikhs, it marks this day in 1699, when the tenth Guru, Guru Gobind Singh, established the order of 'Khalsa'. The festival is a mixture of feasting, dancing and worship. | ** April 21 to May 2, 2010
Feast Of Ridvan (Bahá’í)
| | ’Ridvan’ means paradise and the 12-day festival is the holiest time for the Bahá’ís. It commemorates the 12 days that Baha’u’llah spent in the Garden of Ridvan in the last days of his exile in Baghdad and announced that he was the prophet whose coming had been foretold. The Bahá’ís do not work on the first, ninth and twelfth day of Ridvan. | April 29, 2010
Showa no hi (Japan) | | An annual holiday, it honors the birthday of Emperor Sh?wa (Hirohito), the reigning Emperor before, during, and after World War II (from 1926 to 1989). The official purpose of the holiday is "To reflect on Japan's Sh?wa period when recovery was made after turbulent days, and to think of the country's future." | ==================================================== What's Happening in March What's Happening in April Check out our blog
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