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'Across a wide belt that stretches halfway around the globe, the world’s estimated 1.6 billion Muslims marked the beginning of Ramadan – the holiest month in the Islamic calendar where Muslims abstain from food, drink and other pleasures from sunrise to sunset.'

JAKARTA, INDONESIA - JUNE 27: Indonesian Muslim men pray as a man looks through a telescope to sight the new moon, the sign of the start of the Islamic holy month, Ramadan on June 27, 2014 in Jakarta,

JAKARTA, INDONESIA - JUNE 27: Indonesian Muslim children climb up to the roof of the mosque as elders try to sight the new moon, the sign of the start of the Islamic holy month, Ramadan on June 27

JAKARTA, INDONESIA - JUNE 27: Indonesian Muslims prepare to sight the new moon from the top of a mosque, the sign of the start of the Islamic holy month, Ramadan on June 27, 2014 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

JAKARTA, INDONESIA - JUNE 27: Indonesian Muslim men pray come down from the roof of a mosque after trying to sight the new moon, the sign of the start of the Islamic holy month, Ramadan on June 27, 2014 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

An officer of Malaysia's Islamic authority (2nd R) uses a telescope to perform "rukyah", the sighting of the new moon of Ramadan, in Putrajaya outside Kuala Lumpur June 27, 2014.

In this Sunday, June 15, 2014 photo, Egyptians shop for traditional lanterns used for the holy month of Ramadan starting next week, at a market in the neighborhood of Sayeda Zeinab, Cairo, Egypt.

An Egyptian worker makes a traditional Ramadan lantern marking the holy month of Ramadan at a market in the neighborhood of Sayeda Zeinab, Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, June 26, 2014.

A vendor sells dates at a market ahead of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at Utaiqah neighbourhood, south of Riyadh June 26, 2014. REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser (SAUDI ARABIA


A Muslim woman uses her phone before the start of an evening mass prayer session called "tarawih" to mark the holy fasting month of Ramadan, which will begin on Sunday, at Al Markaz Al Islami Mosque in Makassar, South Sulawesi Province June 28, 2014.

Muslims attend an evening mass prayer session called "tarawih" to mark the holy fasting month of Ramadan, which will begin on Sunday, at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta June 28, 2014.

Muslims attend an evening mass prayer session called "tarawih" to mark the holy fasting month of Ramadan, which will begin on Sunday, at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta June 28, 2014.

A boy stands amongst Malaysian Muslims who are performing a special prayer called "taraweeh" in Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin mosque ahead of the holy month of Ramadan in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur June 28, 2014.


Residents shop ahead of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan at the Shorja wholesale market in central Baghdad, June 28, 2014.

YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA - JUNE 28: Indonesian muslims perform prayers known as Tarawih at Kauman Great Mosque on June 28, 2014 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA - JUNE 28: Indonesian muslims perform prayers known as Tarawih at Kauman Great Mosque on June 28, 2014 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

JAKARTA, INDONESIA - JUNE 28: Indonesian muslim women reading Qoran during prayers known as Tarawih at Istiqlal Mosque the largest mosque in Southeast Asia on June 28, 2014 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Filipino Muslim students read the Koran at a classroom next to the Blue Mosque ahead of Muslims holiest month of Ramadan in Taguig, Metro Manila, June 28, 2014.

Filipino Muslim students read the Koran in a classroom next to the Blue Mosque ahead of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Taguig, Metro Manila, June 28, 2014.

People attend a Friday prayer outside a worship hall of the Niujie Mosque in Beijing, June 27, 2014, ahead of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

A man reads the Koran in a mosque in Sanaa, as Muslims prepare for the fasting month of Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar, June 27, 2014.

A man prepares traditional sweets ahead of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at the port city of Sidon, southern Lebanon June 27, 2014.

Palestine, June 30 2014

Peshawar, Pakistan. June 29 2014

First day of Ramadhan

Peshawar, Pakistan. June 29 2014

Girls recite the Qur'an at the Grand Mosque in Sanaa on the first day of the fasting month

Students at an Islamic boarding school perform prayers on the first day of Ramadhan in Medan, North Sumatra June 29 1014

A Malaysian student reads the Qur'an at a school in Hulu Langat, near Kuala Lumpur on June 30 2014

Libyan men shop for olives and pickles from a vendor in downtown Tripoli before breaking their fast on June 29 2014

Taraweeh on the first day of Ramadhan in the Grand Faisal Mosque, Islamabad, Pakistan

The Grand Mosque in Sanaa, Yemen on June 29 2014

A Malaysian Muslim reads the Qur'an during a lunch break on the 2nd day of the holy month inside a mosque in Kuala Lumpur on June 30 2014