{"id":1102,"date":"2015-06-23T03:40:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T03:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/1102-south-african-muslims-launch-ramadan-charity-drive\/"},"modified":"2015-06-23T03:40:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T03:40:12","slug":"south-african-muslims-launch-ramadan-charity-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/1102-south-african-muslims-launch-ramadan-charity-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"South African Muslims launch Ramadan charity drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.6666660308838px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;\">Launching war on hunger during the holy month of Ramadan<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<h4 class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">Launching war on hunger during the holy month of Ramadan,a group of Islamic organizations have been racing to offer food to the needy people across Africa all through the fasting month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">\u00a0Islamic charity organizations in South Africa have begun distributing food packages to less fortunate Muslims across Africa to ensure they do not lack food with which to break their Ramadan fast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">Hassan Choonara, regional director of the South Africa-based Africa Muslims Agency (AMA), said that his organization hoped to feed over three million Muslims in Africa during this year\u2019s fasting month of Ramadan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;\">Choonara noted that AMA had built dozens of mosques acrossthe continent, where its staff members were providing poor Muslims with hot meals for Iftar and Suhoor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launching war on hunger during the holy month of Ramadan \u00a0 Launching war on hunger during the holy month of Ramadan,a group of Islamic organizations have been racing to offer food to the needy people across Africa all through the fasting month. \u00a0Islamic charity organizations in South Africa have begun distributing food packages to less &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-africa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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