Happy Ramadan / Lent 2026!

If you live in the UK, or another country that started fasting Ramadan today, you may not realise that today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of the traditional 40 days of Christian fasting, Lent. (Apparently the last time this happened was 1991, which is not as long ago as I thought it would be, probably because Easter moves around in a somewhat unpredictable pattern.) Unfortunately there are very…