Despite the word “International”, it seems that this holiday is only celebrated in Russia (and other former Soviet republics). This holiday is a national holiday and a day off. On International Women’s Day, March 7,8 the Russian nation acknowledges women’s great contribution to society, turning into one of the favorite…
Category: Upcoming Holidays
Christianity
All Saints
It is the veneration of all souls that are in Heaven, even if they are not officially canonized or beatified. Anyone who is in Heaven is a holy person. He or she is in the presence of God, sees God face-to-face, and is entirely pleasing to God. Since it is…
Christianity
Assumption
The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 15 August, has a double object: (1) the happy departure of Mary from this life; (2) the assumption of her body into heaven.Today, the belief in the corporeal assumption of Mary is universal in the east as well as in…
Upcoming Holidays
French National Day
The French national holiday commemorates the storming of the Bastille, which took place on July 14, 1789 and marked the beginning of the French Revolution. The Bastille was a prison and a symbol of the absolute and arbitrary power of Louis the 16th’s Ancient Regime. By capturing this symbol, the…
Christianity
Boxing Day
The day after Christmas, the Feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, is better known as Boxing Day. The term probably refers to the opening of Church’s poor-boxes on that day; maybe from the earthenware boxes with which boy-apprentices collected money at the doors of their masters’ clients. Nowadays, we…
Christianity
Good Friday
In the days of the early Christian church, only Easter Sunday was celebrated as a holy day. By the fourth century, each day of the week preceding Easter were established as holy days including Good Friday. To most Christians, Good Friday is really a misnomer in that it was…
General
Leil el Kadre
This holiday commemorates the day that the Prophet Mohammad had received the Koran form Allah.
Islam
Lewilat Al’asraa wa El’Maareg
The holiday commemorates the day theta the Prophet Mohammad had risen to the sky.
Upcoming Holidays
Circassian Memorial Day
The holiday is celebrated on every 21th of May. Other holidays as the Al-Hijra and the Prophet Mohammad's birthday, Eid Ul Fittr, the Ramadan and and Eid-Ul-Adha are celebrated by the Circassian community on similar Muslim common dates.
Druze
Holiday of the Prophet El’Jaffuri
After the six day war, in 1967, the Israeli Druze have begun celebrating the holiday along with their community who leave in the Golan Heights, near Birkat Ram, every 25th of August.