{"id":5686,"date":"2019-06-11T16:59:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T15:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=5686"},"modified":"2019-06-12T11:11:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T10:11:32","slug":"end-of-ramadan-time-to-celebrate-with-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2019\/06\/11\/end-of-ramadan-time-to-celebrate-with-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Ramadan, time to celebrate with friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5691\" style=\"width: 347px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Ramadan-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5691\" class=\"wp-image-5691 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Ramadan-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cousins clowning around on a family holiday<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5690\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Ramadan-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5690\" class=\"wp-image-5690 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Ramadan-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matriarch of the Chief T clan, about 95 years old<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5689\" style=\"width: 355px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Ramadan-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5689\" class=\"wp-image-5689 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Ramadan-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henna designs on hands and feet are very popular<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Ramadan-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5688\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-Ramadan-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The end of Ramadan feast day happened a day later than we planned, weirdly being celebrated in CAR on Tuesday and Wednesday in Cameroon.\u00a0 We went and had a lovely time with 5 different households, wishing we could have squeezed more visits in, but our various hosts\u2019 warm welcomes and admonitions to always eat more to made it difficult to add anyone else to the day.\u00a0 The horrible news was that on Tuesday, 4 non-Muslixm farmers were murdered while out in their fields, working.\u00a0 Rumors flew about who did it and some of the non-Muslixm people chose to blame the whole Fulani\/Muslixm population.\u00a0 My dear friend H told me that there were non-Muslixm people, machetes in hand, refusing access to the well water pumps, and others were refusing access to the meat market, even throwing meat on the ground&#8230;this on the eve of their biggest holiday of the year.\u00a0 H said that she and all her family and friends just hunkered down in their homes, afraid to go out and about.\u00a0 The government sent two big truckloads of soldiers from Yaound\u00e9 to be present in town.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t seem like there were any extra soldiers milling about that day, but we were at people&#8217;s homes and not in town.\u00a0 Our friends gathered in a huge mass out on a playing field, as is their norm, about 8:30 am on the Ramadan feast day, to worship and give thanks before they ended their fast.\u00a0 They said there were plenty of soldiers around them out there.\u00a0 It seems that all is okay now, but it was certainly sad to hear our Fulani friends say that \u201cCAR has arrived in Cameroon\u201d.\u00a0 Please pray for peace and for God\u2019s love to reign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=5686&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of Ramadan feast day happened a day later than we planned, weirdly being celebrated in CAR on Tuesday and Wednesday in Cameroon.\u00a0 We went and had a lovely time with 5 different households, wishing we could have squeezed &hellip; 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