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Head of school Will Fisk said they were working on a way to support working parents whose children were fasting.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2024

Armed troops walked the neighborhood, occasionally popping into stores to greet people who were fasting as part of the month-long observation of Ramadan.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2021

In 2015, nearly 700 people died in Karachi alone from a heatwave that struck Pakistan while many were fasting for Ramadan.

From The Guardian • Sep. 9, 2017

It was nearing the end of Ramadan, during which many of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims — including some women here — were fasting during daylight hours.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2017

The next morning we woke early and set out for the chapel, telling our hosts that we were fasting so as not to give them any further bother.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez