{"id":53423,"date":"2026-02-17T17:31:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=53423"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:31:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:31:05","slug":"ministry-of-religious-affairs-announces-date-for-ramadan-moon-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=53423","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Religious Affairs Announces Date for Ramadan Moon Sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments announced on Sunday that the first day of the month of Shaban 1447 AH will be Tuesday, January 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Ministry explained that the &#8220;Night of Doubt&#8221; to observe the crescent moon of the holy month of Ramadan for the year 1447 AH \/ 2026 AD will be on Tuesday, Shaban 29, 1447 AH, corresponding to February 17, 2026.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>Reference: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabqpress.dz\/%d9%88%d8%b2%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b4%d8%a4%d9%88%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d9%8f%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%86-%d9%85%d9%88%d8%b9%d8%af-%d8%aa%d8%b1%d9%82%d8%a8-%d9%87\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments announced on Sunday that the first day of the month of Shaban 1447 AH will be Tuesday, January 20, 2026. In a statement, the Ministry explained that the &#8220;Night of Doubt&#8221; to observe the crescent moon of the holy month of Ramadan for the year 1447 AH \/ &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}