{"id":35048,"date":"2014-07-28T11:56:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T11:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=35048"},"modified":"2014-07-28T11:56:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T11:56:28","slug":"statement-akufo-addo-sends-best-wishes-to-all-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=35048","title":{"rendered":"Statement: Akufo-Addo sends best wishes to all Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is to congratulate all Muslims across the country for a successful completion of the month long Ramadan fast.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of my wife Rebecca and myself, I send you best wishes, and by extension all Muslims across the world, as you celebrate the annual Eid ul-Fitr festival on Monday, August 28.<\/p>\n<p>The Eid ul-Fitr celebration commemorates the end of Ramadan, a period of intense devotion and reflection &#8211; a time when Muslims have devoted themselves entirely to the will of Allah and to the principles and tenets of the Qu&#8217;ran and Sunnah.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that this intense period of devotion has inspired in Muslims a commitment not only to God but also to country.<\/p>\n<p>The intense flow of Barakat (divine grace) that this one month of spiritual exercise has engendered must trigger a respect for neighbour and country that will enable us all, as God&#8217;s servants, to join hands in the difficult task of nation building.<\/p>\n<p>I urge all Muslims to continue to demonstrate, continually, a sense of unity and oneness in the years ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, I am privileged to join many other Ghanaians in wishing you all a happy Eid ul-Fitr celebration. Baraka Da Salla!<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2026\u2026signed\u2026\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Office of Nana Akufo-Addo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is to congratulate all Muslims across the country for a successful completion of the month long Ramadan fast. On behalf of my wife Rebecca and myself, I send you best wishes, and by extension all Muslims across the world, as you celebrate the annual Eid ul-Fitr festival on Monday, August 28. The Eid ul-Fitr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-35048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}