| 1. | The Torah is also read at Mincha on all public fast days.
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| 2. | No fast and testimony meeting is held for these non-regular fast days.
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| 3. | For Roman Catholic and Anglican Christians, Good Friday is a fast day.
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| 4. | The content of these prayers is related to the specific fast day.
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| 5. | Sundays, which was never a fast day, was excluded from the calculation.
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| 6. | This is a strict fast day; the adults should eat almost nothing.
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| 7. | Some even fast on this day and recite prayers for fast days.
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| 8. | The earliest known "'fast day "'was proclaimed in Boston on September 8, 1670.
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| 9. | Arafat said leaders of the various Palestinian factions had agreed to the fast day.
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| 10. | On the fast day of Tisha B'Av, different customs prevail.
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