10 22 Religious Waqf al Arafa/Hajj | Ganesh Chaturthi | Hindu Muslim honoring the god of (until 8/11) prosperity, prudence, and success Holidays Observance during Hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, when pilgrims pray for forgiveness and 29 mercy Beheading of St. John the Baptist | Christian Provided by Krishna Janmashtani | Hindu Remembrance of the death of Commemoration of the birth of John the Baptist The President's Krishna Committee on September 15 Religious, Assumption of the Blessed 1 Virgin Mary | Catholic Christian Religious begins | Spiritual and Commemorating the assumption of Orthodox Christian Mary, mother of , into Start of the religious year Nonreligious heaven

Diversity Dormition of the Virgin Mary | 2 Orthodox Christian Obon/Ulambana | Buddhist, Observance of the death, burial, Shinto and transfer to heaven of the Also known as Ancestor Day, a Virgin Mary time to relieve the suffering of ghosts by making offerings to deceased ancestors 2020 16 Paryushana Parva | Jain Chinese Ghost Festival | Festival signifying human Taoist, Buddhist emergence into a new world of Celebration in which the deceased spiritual and moral refinement, and are believed to visit the living 1 a celebration of the natural Lammas | Wiccan/Pagan qualities of the soul Celebration of the early harvest 8 17 Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Fast in Honor of Holy Mother Mary | Orthodox Christian Marcus Garvey’s Birthday | of Jesus | Orthodox Christian Celebration of the birth of Mary, Rastafarian Beginning of the 14-day period of the mother of Jesus preparation, leading up to the Celebration of the birth of Marcus Dormition of Mary Garvey 11 Ethiopian ’s Day | 3 18 Rastafarian Raksha Bandhan | Hindu Ashura | Muslim First day of the new year for the Festival honoring the loving ties Optional one-day fast marking between brothers and sisters in the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali family (Shi’a Islam) and marking the day that fasted in gratitude for 13 liberation of the Israelites (Sunni Auditor’s Day | Scientology 6 Islam) Scientology Auditors are Transfiguration of the Lord | acknowledged on this day for their Orthodox Christian dedication in helping their fellow Observance of the transfiguration 19 men and women of Jesus on Mt. Tabor in the Hijri-New Year | Muslim Marks presence of his disciples the beginning of the new year

14 7 18 Exaltation of the Cross | Founding of the International Birth of the Bab | Baha’i Orthodox Christian Association of Scientologists Honoring of the founder of the Babi Commemorated the finding of the Scientology religion, forerunner to Baha’u’llah Cross of Christ, observed as a fast Scientologists rededicate and the Baha’i faith day themselves to the aims of Scientology: a world without criminals, suffering, and war 19 19 Birth of Baha’u’llah | Baha’i | Jewish (until Celebration of the birth of the 9/20) 8 founder of the Baha’i faith Jewish New Year, marked by a call Birthday of Guru Ram Das | to repentance Sikh Commemoration of the birth 20 of one of the foremost 10 gurus of Sikhism Guru Granth Sahib 21 Installation | Sikh Mabon | Wiccan/Pagan Remembrance of the eternal Hoshanah Rabbah | Jewish installation of the holy books by Observance of the Autumnal (until 10/09) Granth Sahib Commemoration of the last of the reading of the Torah 27 28 Milvian Bridge Day | Christian Meskel | Ethiopian Orthodox 9 Day of solemn reflection on Christian Shemini Atzeret | Jewish the relationship of the spiritual Commemoration of the discovery (until 10/11) community and the powers of the of the True Cross by St. Helen Completion of the annual cycle of civil government the reading of the Torah | Jewish Mawlid an Nabi | Muslim (until 9/28) Celebration of Also known as the Day of 10 Muhammad’s birthday Atonement with central themes of Simchat Torah | Jewish atonement and repentance (until 10/11) Day to celebrate the reading of the 31 28 Law All Hallow’s Eve | Christian Praying and prior to the Confucius’ Birthday | feast day of All Saints Day Confucian Observance of the 12 birth of Confucius Thanksgiving- Canada | Reformation Day | Protestant Interfaith Celebration of the Christian harvest and other blessings in the Anniversary of the tradition of October past year , marked by Martin Luther’s nailing of his 95 Theses 2 on a door in Wittenberg, Sukkot | Jewish 25 Germany (until 10/9) Feast Tabernacles, Dussehra/Durga Puja | Hindu which celebrates the harvest and 10th day of Navrati. Celebration of the protection of the people of the victory of Lord Ram over November Israel as they wandered in the demon King Ravana and Goddess wilderness dwelling in tents Durga over buffalo-demon 1 Mahishasur All Saints Day | Christian 4 Day for honoring and remembering Christian saints St. Francis Day/Blessing of 17 the Animals | Catholic Navratri | Hindu (until 10/26) | Wiccan/Pagan Christian Festival of the divine mother Celebration of endings and Feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, (lasting 9 nights) honoring Durga, beginnings patron saint of animals and wife of Shiva, and seeking her ecology, often celebrated with blessing special blessing of animals 2 2 27 12 All Souls Day | Catholic Ascension of Abdu’l-Baha | Feast of Our Lady of Christian Commemoration of the Baha’i Guadalupe | souls of who have died Celebration of the rising of the Catholic Christian spirit of Abdu’l’Baha to heavenly Honoring of legendary appearance dwelling of the Virgin Mary near Mexico City 14 in 1531 | Sikh, Jain, Hindu The Festival of Lights marking the 28 end of the Hindu year Begins | 16 Orthodox Christian (until 1/6/20) Posadas Navidenas | Hispanic Period of and penance Christian (until 12/25/18) Nine- in preparation for the birth of Jesus day religious observance during 15 which families participate in nightly that re- Jain New Year | Jain Beginning of the Jain year 29 create the Holy Pilgrimage of | Christian (until 12/24) Mary, Joseph, and the baby Jesus Season observed as a time to on their way to 16 prepare for the birth of Jesus International Day for Christ 21 Tolerance | Interfaith | Wiccan/Pagan United Nations observance day to 30 generate public awareness of the Celebration of the Winter dangers of intolerance Guru Nanak Dev Sahib’s birthday | Sikh 24 Vikram New Year | Hindu Honoring of the birth of the founder Beginning of the Hindu year of Sikhism | Christian Day before Christmas, often celebrated with a midnight / December Liturgy of Jesus’ birth 22 Christ the King | 6

Christian St. Nicholas Day | Christian 25 Feast celebrating the all- Celebration of St. Nicholas, patron Christmas /Feast of Nativity | embracing authority of Christ, over saint of children and role model for Christian, Orthodox Christian and above governmental authority gift-giving (New Calendar) Celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ 24 8 Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Immaculate Conception of Bahadur | Sikh Mary | 26 Commemoration of the death of Catholic Christian | Pan-African Guru Tegh Bahadur Celebrates the belief in the (until 1/1/19) Immaculate Conception of the celebrating family, Blessed Virgin Mary community, and culture among 25 people of African descent Day of the Covenant | Baha’i Bodhi Day | Buddhist Celebration of the covenant given Celebration of the Enlightenment in the last will and testament of of Buddha 27 Baha’u’llah Feast of the | Catholic Christian 10 Celebration honoring Jesus, his 26 | Jewish mother Mary, and her husband Thanksgiving | Interfaith (until 12/18) Joseph as a family Celebration of the harvest and Festival of Lights commemorating community the recapture and rededication of the Jerusalem Temple

3 28 7 20 Holy Innocents | Christian Orthodox Christmas | The Birth of the Tenth Sikh Day of solemn memory of male Orthodox Christian (Old Master | Sikh children killed by King Herod in the Calendar) Honoring the birth of Guru Gobind same attempt to destroy Jesus Celebration of the birth of Jesus Singh Christ

30 Ethiopian Christmas | 25 Freedom Day | Scientology Rastafarian Celebration of the Conversion of St. Paul | Day celebrating the official birth of Jesus Christ Christian Event in the life of Paul recognition of the Church of the Apostle, after which he Scientology in the United States in became a follower of Jesus 1974 10

Baptism of the Lord Jesus | 27 31 Christian Tu B’Shvat | Jewish (until 1/28) Watch Night | Christian Commemorating the baptism of Celebration of the coming of spring Occasion to thank God for bringing Jesus in the Jordan River by people safely through another St. John the Baptist year, and to prepare for the next 28 year 11 Mahayana New Year | Buddhist Seijin no Hi | Shinto Buddhist New Year, as celebrated Holiday honoring those who have in Mayahana countries 2021 or will reach the age of twenty

within the current year January 14 1 Makar Sankranti | Hindu Solemnity of Mary, Mother of Celebration marking the turning of

God | Catholic Christian the toward the north; festival in 2 Celebration of the Blessed Virgin reverence to deity Surya, god of Presentation of Christ in the Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ the sun Temple | Christian, Orthodox Christian Remembrance of the infant Jesus Shogatsu/Gantan-sai | Shinto 17 New Year’s Day celebration being brought to the temple in World Religion Day | Baha’i Jerusalem Day dedicated to the unity and 5 oneness of the world religions | Wiccan/Pagan Halfway | Christian between the and Conclusion of the Twelve Days of 18 the Spring Equinox, celebrates the Christmas and marking the coming passage from winter to spring of Prayer for Christian of the Unity | Christian Setsubun-sai | Shinto Ecumenical observance focused Celebration of the traditional 6 on prayer for church unity beginning of spring and the end of Epiphany/Three Kings Day | winter Christian

Feast to celebrate the visit of the 19 Three Wise Men to Baby Jesus Timkat | Ethiopian Orthodox 3 Christian Four Chaplains Sunday | | Orthodox Commemorating the baptism of Interfaith Jesus in the Jordan River by Christian (New Calendar) Commemoration of U.S. Army St. John the Baptist Commemorates the revelation of chaplains who gave their lives to the Holy at the Baptism of save others during WWII Jesus by John in the River Jordan

4 12 17 11 Triodion begins | Orthodox | Christian Maha Shivaratri | Hindu Christian Observance to begin the 40-day Festival honoring Lord Shiva and Time period leading up to season of Lent, ashes are marked his marriage to the goddess on worshipers’ foreheads as a sign Parvati Chinese New Year | of repentance Confucian, Taoist, Buddhist Laylat al Miraj | Muslim New Year’s celebration marking Commemorates the Prophet the start of the lunar new year, 25 Muhammad’s nighttime journey begins a fifteen-day festival for Intercalary Days | Baha’i from Mecca to ‘the farthest Chinese people of all religions, (until 2/28) Insertion of days into mosque’ in Jerusalem who give thanks for family and the calendar in order to maintain remember ancestors the , considered ‘days outside of time’ 13 L. Ron Hubbard’s Birthday |

14 Ta’anit Esther | Jewish Scientology Race Relations Day | Christian Fast on Purim eve, Marks the birth of L. Ron Hubbard, Day recognizing the importance of commemorating the fast of the founder of Scientology interracial relations and learning Jewish people in the story of Purim

St. Valentine’s Day | Christian Purim | Jewish (until 2/26) 17 Feast day of St. Valentine, Celebration of the deliverance of St. Patrick’s Day | Christian celebrating love and affection the Jewish minority in Persia from Feast Day of St. Patrick who genocide brought to Ireland National Founding Day United States | Scientology 26 20 Founding of the first Church of NawRúz | Baha’i Scientology in the U.S., the Church Spring Lantern Festival | First day of the Baha’I calendar of Scientology of Los Angeles in Taoist Marks the final day of the 1954 Chinese New Year celebrations year

Magha Puja Day | Buddhist Ostara | Wiccan/Pagan Welcoming of spring and 15 Celebration of the teachings by celebration of the goddess-as- Nirvana Day | Buddhist Lord Buddha to an assembly of maiden (Vernal Equinox) Also known as Parinirvana Day, holy men remembering the death of Buddha when he reached Nirvana; Nirvana 21 day is believed to be the festival 27 Orthodox Sunday | Orthodox that marks the end of the cycle of Maghi | Sikh birth and rebirth. Christian Commemoration of a battle in First Sunday of Lent, at which time which forty Sikhs died for Guru restoration of in the church is Clean | Orthodox Gobind Singh Ji celebrated Christian Start of Lent for Orthodox Christians, refers to the leaving March 25 behind of sinful attitudes and non- of the Blessed fasting foods 2 Virgin Mary | Christian Nineteen Day Fast | Baha’i Feast day commemorating Mary 16 (until 3/20) being told by the angel that Fast to be observed by adults of she would be the mother of Jesus, Shrove (Fat the Baha’i faith in good health from the Tuesday) | Christian sunrise to sunset Carnival day on the eve of Ash Wednesday 27 Lord’s Evening Meal | Vasant Panchami | Hindu Jehovah’s Witness Festival of spring honoring the Memorial commemoration of the goddess of learning death of Jesus Christ 5

Passover/Pesach | Jewish 4 20 (until 4/4) | Christian First Day of Ridvan | Baha’i 8-day celebration of the Holy day commemorating the Commemorates the beginning deliverance of the Jews from Christ of the Baha’i faith in 1863 when slavery in Egypt Baha’u’llah first declared his Qingming Festival | Taoist, mission, marks first of a twelve-day Confucian period 28 Also known as Tomb Sweeping Khordad Sal | Zoroastrian Day, commemorates onset of Remembrance of the birth of the spring and is an occasion to 21 prophet Zarathustra remember ancestors Grounation Day | Rastafarian First Sunday of Lent, at which time Holy day celebrated in honor of restoration of icons in the church is Haile Selassie’s 1966 visit to celebrated 6 Jamaica Founding of the Church | Holi | Hindu Mormon Rama Navami | Hindu Spring festival known as the Commemoration of the Celebration of the birth of Lord “festival of colors” or the “festival of appearance of the angel, Moroni, Rama love”. The festival signifies the in 1830 to Joseph Smith, victory of good over evil. subsequently founding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 24 | Christian Lazarus | Orthodox Celebration of the entry of Jesus Christian into Jerusalem which marks the 8 Celebration of the resurrection of start of Yom HaShoah | Jewish Lazarus by Jesus Holocaust Day established to Lailat al Bara’ah | Muslim remember the six million Jews Also known as the Night of killed by the Nazis during the 25 Records and the Night of 1930s and 1940s Mahavir Jayanti | Jain Forgiveness, commemorating Celebration of the birth of when God descends from heaven Mahavira, Founder of Jainism as a and forgives the people of their 12 religion sins begins | Muslim (until 5/11) Palm Sunday | Orthodox devoted to the Christian commemoration of Muhammad’s Commemorates the entry of Jesus 29 into Jerusalem, marking the Hola Mohalla | Sikh reception of the divine revelation recorded in the Qur’an beginning of the Great and Holy Created by Guru Gobind Singh as Week an occasion for Sikhs to show their martial arts skills and host mock 13 battles Ramayana Week | Hindu (until 27 4/21) Theravadin New Year | Nine-day festival that marks the Buddhist April auspicious celebration of the Buddhist New Year 1 appearance of Hindu Lord, Sri Hanuman Jayanti | Hindu Ram Maundy | Christian Celebration of Hanuman, an embodiment of Lord Rama, Remembrance of Jesus’ last meal devotion and selfless works are with his disciples 14 encouraged

Baisakhi/Vaisakhi | Sikh, 2 In Sikhism the day commemorates

Good /Holy Friday | the founding of the Khalsa, a 28 Christian, Orthodox Christian distinctive Sikh brotherhood Ninth Day of Ridvan | Baha’i Remembrance of the crucifixion Day of recognition for the historic and death of Jesus and symbolic event of Baha’u’llah’s exile from Baghdad

6 29 9 25 Lag Ba’Omer | Jewish Observance of the African Liberation Day | Pan- Holiday that occurs on the 33rd Publication of African day of the Omer, the 49-day period Dianetics | Scientology Commemoration of the formation between and Shavout Observance of the publication of of the Organization of African Dianetics: the Modern Science of Unity/African Union Mental Health in 1950 which was 30 the forerunner of Scientology Great and Holy Friday | 26 Orthodox Christian Visakha Puja (Buddha Day | Commemorates the crucifixion and 13 Buddhist death of Jesus Christ Ascension of Jesus | Christian Commemorates the birth, Remembrance of the departure of enlightenment, and death of Jesus from Earth after his Guatama Buddha in the resurrection. Celebrated 40 days Theravada tradition May after Easter

1 Eid al Fitr | Muslim 28 | Wiccan/Pagan Festival that marks the end to the Ascension of Baha’u’llah | Celebration of the conjoining of the fasting month of Ramadan Baha’i Remembrance of the death goddess with the energy of the god of Baha’u’llah, founder of the in sacred marriage, the basis of all World Falun Dafa/Falun Gong Baha’i faith creation Day | Buddhist Celebration of the spiritual Twelfth Day of Ridvan | Baha’i discipline introduced in China in 30 Final day of the twelve-day festival 1992 | Christian which celebrates the beginning of Celebrates doctrine of the Trinity, the Baha’i faith remembering and honoring God 16 the Father, the Son, and the Holy Chongmyo Taeje | Confucian Shavuot | Jewish (until 5/18) Spirit Confucian memorial ceremony to Celebration of the descent of honor the kings and queens of the Moses from Mt. Sinai with Yi, or Joseon, Dynasty Commandments June

2 21 3 Holy Pasha | Orthodox World Day for Cultural Corpus Christi | Catholic Christian Diversity Christian Commemorates the resurrection of for Dialogue & Development | Celebration of the presence of the Jesus Christ from the dead Interfaith body and blood of Jesus Christ United Nations- sanctioned in the - also known as 6 international holiday that transubstantiation celebrates the richness of the | world’s cultures while promoting Interfaith intercultural dialogue 10 U.S. day of observance | encouraging prayer among all Orthodox Christian faiths 23 Commemorates Jesus’ ascension | Christian into heaven, 40 days after his Commemorates the descent of the resurrection 8 Holy Spirit upon the Apostles Laylat al Qadr | Muslim

The Night of Destiny, the first 11 Declaration of the Bab | revelation of the Qur’an to Prophet Feast of the of Muhammad Baha’i Celebration of the Bab, Ali Jesus | Catholic Christian Muhammad’s, announcement in Occasion to pay homage to 1844 that he was the “gate” to the Christ’s all-encompassing love for coming of the promised one of all humanity religions 7 13 19 9 Race Unity Day | Baha’i Eid al Adha | Muslim Hijri-New Year | Muslim Day to promote racial harmony Also known as the Sacrifice Feast, Marks the beginning of the new and understanding commemorating the Prophet Islamic calendar year ’s willingness to sacrifice his son as an obedience to God 14 10 Dragon Boat Festival | Taoist Waqf al Arafa/Hajj Day | Chinese festival commemorating 23 Muslim (until 8/11) fealty and filial piety and Birth of the Emperor Haile recognizing the life and death of Observance during Hajj, the Chinese Scholar, Qu Yuan Selassie | Rastafarian Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, when Birthday of the revered Messianic pilgrims pray for forgiveness and figure among Rastafarians mercy 16 Guru Arjan Martyrdom | Sikh Honoring the first Sikh martyr 24 15 whose death resulted in changes | Mormon Assumption of the Blessed in the faith’s tradition Observation of the arrival of the Virgin Mary | Catholic Christian first settlers at Great Salt Lake, Commemorating the assumption of USA Mary, mother of Jesus, into 19 heaven New Church Day | Guru Purnima | Hindu Swedenborgian Christian Observance to revere and Dormition of the Virgin Mary | Annual commemoration of the celebrate their teachers. The Orthodox Christian vision document “The True teachers who give education and Observance of the death, burial, Christian Religion,” in 1770 wisdom and teachers who give and transfer to heaven of the spiritual wealth. Virgin Mary

20 Pentecost | Orthodox Christian Asalha Puja Day | Buddhist 17 Commemorates the descent of the Also known as Dhamma Day, the Marcus Garvey’s Birthday | Holy Spirit upon the Holy Apostles day that marks the beginning of Rastafarian Buddhism Celebration of the birth of Marcus Garvey 24 Litha | Wiccan/Pagan August Celebration of the sacred 22 marriage, in which the energy 1 Obon/Ulambana | Buddhist, of the gods is poured into the Lammas | Wiccan/Pagan Shinto services of life () Celebration of the early harvest Also known as Ancestor Day, a time to relieve the suffering of Fast in Honor of Holy Mother ghosts by making offerings to July of Jesus | Orthodox Christian deceased ancestors

Beginning of the 14-day period of Raksha Bandhan | Hindu preparation, leading up to the 9 Dormition of Mary Festival honoring the loving ties Martydom of the Bab | Baha’i between brothers and sisters in Observance of the day Ali family Muhammad was executed in 1850 6 by Persian political and religious Transfiguration of the Lord | powers Orthodox Christian 29 Thursday Observance of the transfiguration Beheading of St. John the of Jesus on Mt. Tabor in the Baptist | Christian 17 presence of his disciples Remembrance of the death of Tish’a B’av | Jewish John the Baptist Day of fasting in the remembrance of the destruction of the Temple in 586 BCE and 70 CE 8 Krishna Janmashtani | Hindu Shemini Atzeret | Jewish (until

Commemoration of the birth of 14 9/29) Krishna Exaltation of the Cross | Completion of the annual cycle of Orthodox Christian the reading of the Torah Commemorated the finding of the September Cross of Christ, observed as a fast day 28 1 Confucius’ Birthday | Religious year begins | 15 Confucian Observance of the Orthodox Christian birth of Confucius Yom Kippur | Jewish Start of the religious calendar year (until 9/16) Simchat Torah | Jewish Also known as the Day of (until 9/29) 4 Atonement with central themes of atonement and repentance Day to celebrate the reading of the Paryushana Parva | Jain Law Festival signifying human emergence into a new world of 18 spiritual and moral refinement, and Ashura | Muslim October a celebration of the natural Optional one-day fast marking qualities of the soul the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali 4 (Shi’a Islam) and marking the day St. Francis Day/Blessing of 6 that Moses fasted in graditude for the Animals | Catholic liberation of the Israelites (Sunni Christian Rosh Hashanah | Jewish Islam) Feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, (until 9/8) patron saint of animals and Jewish New Year, marked by a call ecology, often celebrated with to repentance 20 special blessing of animals Sukkot | Jewish (until 9/27) Feast Tabernacles, 8 which celebrates the harvest and 6 Nativity of the Blessed Virgin the protection of the people of Birth of the Bab | Baha’i Mary | Christian, Orthodox Israel as they wandered in the Honoring of the founder of the Babi Christian wilderness dwelling in tents religion, forerunner to Baha’u’llah Celebration of the birth of Mary, and the Baha’i faith the mother of Jesus 21

Mabon | Wiccan/Pagan Navratri | Hindu (until 10/15) Observance of the Autumnal Festival of the divine mother 10 (lasting 9 nights) honoring Durga, Ganesh Chaturthi | Hindu Equinox wife of Shiva, and seeking her Festival honoring the god of blessing prosperity, prudence, and success 22 Chinese Ghost Festival | Taoist, Buddhist 7 11 Founding of the International Ethiopian New Year’s Day | Celebration in which the deceased are believed to visit the living Association of Scientologists Rastafarian Scientology First day of the new year for the Scientologists rededicate Ethiopian calendar 26 themselves to the aims of Hoshanah Rabbah | Jewish Scientology: a world without 12 (until 9/27) criminals, suffering, and war Auditor’s Day | Scientology Commemoration of the last of the Scientology Auditors are reading of the Torah 8 acknowledged on this day for their Birthday of Guru Ram Das | dedication in helping their fellow Sikh Commemoration of the birth men and women 27 of one of the foremost 10 gurus of Meskel | Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Sikhism Commemoration of the discovery of the True Cross by St. Helen 9 11 2 21 Thanksgiving- Canada | All Souls Day | Catholic Christ the King Sunday | Interfaith Celebration of the Christian Commemoration of the Christian harvest and other blessings in the souls of Christians who have died Feast celebrating the all- past year embracing authority of Christ, over and above governmental authority 4 18 Diwali | Sikh, Jain, Hindu Mawlid an Nabi | Muslim The Festival of Lights marking the 21 Celebration of Prophet end of the Hindu year Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Muhammad’s birthday Bahadur | Sikh Commemoration of the death of 5 Guru Tegh Bahadur 25 Vikram New Year | Hindu Dussehra/Durga Puja | Hindu Beginning of the Hindu year 10th day of Navrati. Celebration of 25 the victory of Lord Ram over Jain New Year | Jain Beginning Thanksgiving | Interfaith demon King Ravana and Goddess of the Jain year Celebration of the harvest and Durga over buffalo-demon community Mahishasur 7 Birth of the Bab | Baha’i Day of the Covenant | Baha’i Honoring of the founder of the Babi Celebration of the covenant given 28 religion, forerunner to Baha’u’llah in the last will and testament of Milvian Bridge Day | Christian and the Baha’i faith Baha’u’llah Day of solemn reflection on the relationship of the spiritual Birth of Baha’u’llah | Baha’i 27 community and the powers of the Celebration of the birth of the civil government founder of the Baha’i faith Ascension of Abdu’l-Baha | Baha’i Celebration of the rising of the spirit of Abdu’l’Baha to heavenly 31 16 dwelling All Hallow’s Eve | Christian International Day for Praying and fasting prior to the Tolerance | Interfaith feast day of All Saints Day United Nations observance day to 28 generate public awareness of the Nativity Fast Begins | Reformation Day | Protestant dangers of intolerance Orthodox Christian Christian Period of abstinence and penance Anniversary of the tradition of 19 in preparation for the birth of Jesus Protestantism, marked by Martin Guru Nanak Dev Sahib’s Luther’s nailing of his 95 Theses Advent | Christian (until 12/24) on a church door in Wittenberg, birthday | Sikh Season observed as a time to Germany Honoring of the birth of the founder prepare for the birth of Jesus of Sikhism Christ

November 20 Hanukkah | Jewish (until 1 Guru Granth Sahib 12/6) Installation | Sikh Festival of Lights commemorating All Saints Day | Christian Remembrance of the eternal the recapture and rededication of Day for honoring and remembering installation of the holy books by the Jerusalem Temple Christian saints Granth Sahib

Samhain | Wiccan/Pagan Celebration of endings and beginnings

10 December 25 Christmas /Feast of Nativity | 6 Christian, Orthodox Christian St. Nicholas Day | Christian (New Calendar) Celebration of St. Nicholas, patron Celebration of the birth of Jesus saint of children and role model for Christ gift-giving

26 8 Kwanzaa | Pan-African (until Immaculate Conception of 1/1/19) Mary | Holiday celebrating family, Catholic Christian community, and culture among Celebrates the belief in the people of African descent Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Feast of the Holy Family | Catholic Christian Bodhi Day | Buddhist Celebration honoring Jesus, his Celebration of the Enlightenment mother Mary, and her husband of Buddha Joseph as a family

12 28 Feast of Our Lady of Holy Innocents | Christian Guadalupe | Day of solemn memory of male Catholic Christian children killed by King Herod in the Honoring of legendary appearance same attempt to destroy Jesus of the Virgin Mary near Mexico City in 1531 30 Freedom Day | Scientology 16 Day celebrating the official Posadas Navidenas | Hispanic recognition of the Church of Christian Scientology in the United States in Nine-day religious observance 1974 during which families participate in nightly Christmas processions that re-create the Holy Pilgrimage of 31 Tuesday Mary, Joseph, and the baby Jesus Watch Night | Christian on their way to Bethlehem Occasion to thank God for bringing people safely through another year, and to prepare for the next 21 year

Yule | Wiccan/Pagan Celebration of the Winter Solstice

24 Christmas Eve | Christian Day before Christmas, often celebrated with a / Liturgy of Jesus’ birth

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