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Over the past month, about 55,000 Muslims in Wales have been fasting during daylight hours and attending an extra prayer at night.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2022

Humans have been fasting for health reasons and a spiritual boost for thousands of years.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2022

For the last two years, about 10,000 religious activists have been fasting on the first day of the month to call attention to global warming, according to Caroline Bader of the Lutheran World Federation.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2015

For the past two years, about 10,000 religious activists have been fasting on the first day of the month to call attention to global warming, according to Caroline Bader of the Lutheran World Federation.

From US News • Dec. 1, 2015

He would have been fasting for months while waiting for the sea ice to re-form, but he was still twice as big as the bear that had wrecked them before.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz