Traditional fasts by Muslims, Christians and adherents of the Baha’i faith have coincided this year, and some students at the University of Virginia took part last week in an interfaith gathering to break fast together. WMRA’s Ayse Pirge reports.
DELANEY COURI: When I first took this job as an Interfaith Coordinator, it was important to me that I acknowledge, like all the faith traditions that I could find, and that were maybe having a big celebrations or events.
Delaney Couri oversees the Interfaith Student Center at the University of Virginia.
COURI: And so, when I saw that Lent was going to start the same day as Ramadan, and then was going to cross over with the Baha’i Nineteen Days of Fast, I was like, oh my gosh, like this is like this one-in-a-lifetime crossover of all these faiths breaking their fast together, so I have to organize something…