{"id":138,"date":"2026-02-18T05:06:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T04:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/le-mois-de-ramadan-debutera-jeudi-19-fevrier-au-canada\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T05:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T04:06:35","slug":"le-mois-de-ramadan-debutera-jeudi-19-fevrier-au-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/le-mois-de-ramadan-debutera-jeudi-19-fevrier-au-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"The month of Ramadan will begin Thursday February 19 in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Council of Quebec Imams has announced that the first day of Ramadan in Quebec, Canada will be Thursday February 19, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Several countries, including Algeria, Tunisia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, have announced that the first day of Ramadan will be Thursday, February 19.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia has announced that tomorrow, Wednesday February 18, will be the first day of the month of Ramadan. In France the date is set for February 18.<\/p><div id=\"linit-3926109853\" class=\"linit-dans-le-contenu linit-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8992136571741975\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8992136571741975\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"1055921646\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Other countries such as Morocco, Mauritania, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Iran have indicated that they will observe the moon on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Message from the Council of Imams of Quebec<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-86503 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/conseil-des-imamas-du-quebec-ramadan-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"946\" height=\"1408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/conseil-des-imamas-du-quebec-ramadan-2026.jpg 946w, https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/conseil-des-imamas-du-quebec-ramadan-2026-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/conseil-des-imamas-du-quebec-ramadan-2026-768x1143.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 946px) 100vw, 946px\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"screen-reader-text\">Article navigation<\/h2>\n<div id=\"linit-3835194191\" class=\"linit-apres-contenu linit-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8992136571741975\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8992136571741975\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"1055921646\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council of Quebec Imams has announced that the first day of Ramadan in Quebec, Canada will be Thursday February 19, 2026. Several countries, including Algeria, Tunisia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei, have announced that the first day of Ramadan will be Thursday, February 19. Saudi Arabia has announced that tomorrow, Wednesday February 18, will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/conseil-des-imamas-du-quebec-ramadan-2026.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Le mois de Ramadan d\u00e9butera jeudi 19 f\u00e9vrier au Canada","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communaute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}