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FASTING IS NOTHING NEW Fasting is as old as the human race. All the major religions in the world, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, expect their followers to fast in some form or another. The most common motives for fasting are religious ones. In a religious fast there are three primary purposes: self-control over the body and its appetites; focusing the mind on God or prayer; making sacrifice to God to purge offenses committed. Although the number of occasions on which fasting is practiced has diminished over the centuries in some religions, most branches of Judaism still observe a Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) fast in the fall. Early Christianity developed a number of fasting periods: food was not consumed on Fridays in commemoration of the death of Jesus Christ. Later a period of 40 fast days before Easter, called Lent, was established to allow Christians to meditate on the suffering of Jesus. In the20th century the number of fast days has been dramatically reduced by the Roman Catholic church to two: Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, the beginning and end of Lent. In Islam abstention from food and drink is required of all able Muslims from dawn until dusk each day of the month of Ramadan. via Sheikh Yahya Adel Ibrahim

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