{"id":4732,"date":"2016-07-03T15:09:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T22:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/?p=4732"},"modified":"2016-09-12T20:20:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T03:20:25","slug":"santa-teresa-catholic-church-hosted-its-first-ever-ramadan-iftar-dinner-with-pacifica-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/2016\/07\/03\/santa-teresa-catholic-church-hosted-its-first-ever-ramadan-iftar-dinner-with-pacifica-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Teresa Catholic Church hosted its first ever Ramadan-Iftar dinner with Pacifica Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On June 22, 2016, Santa Teresa Catholic Church hosted its first ever Ramadan-Iftar dinner with Pacifica Institute. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ramadan is the 9th holy month of Islam and Muslims around the world fast during this month. The fasting lasts from sunrise to sunset and can take up to 22 hours! Over 100 guests form different congregations as well as Pacifica volunteers joined together and displayed a wonderful way of bringing people with different backgrounds to enjoy and experience this month with their Muslim friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Pacifica\u2019s own director, Mahmut Altun had recited the Azan (call to prayer) while another <a href=\"http:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/07\/santa_teresa_02.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4734 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/07\/santa_teresa_02-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"santa_teresa_02\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" hspace=\"20\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/07\/santa_teresa_02-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/07\/santa_teresa_02-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/07\/santa_teresa_02.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> member\u00a0of the congregations recited Ava Maria, showing the difference but many similarities between these two religions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/07\/santa_teresa_01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4733 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/07\/santa_teresa_01-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"santa_teresa_01\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" hspace=\"20\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/07\/santa_teresa_01-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/07\/santa_teresa_01-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/07\/santa_teresa_01.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 22, 2016, Santa Teresa Catholic Church hosted its first ever Ramadan-Iftar dinner with Pacifica Institute. Ramadan is the 9th holy month of Islam and Muslims around the world fast during this month. The fasting lasts from sunrise to sunset and can take up to 22 hours! Over 100 guests form different congregations as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":4733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[277,537,278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recent-events","category-silicon-valley-branch","category-slideshow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/bay-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}