Religious festival

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A religious festival is a time of special importance marked by adherents to that religion. Religious festivals are commonly celebrated on reoccurring cycles in a calendar year or lunar calendar. This means that, because ancient calendars were not hugely accurate, the exact date of the festival changes each year.

1 Ancient Roman religious festivals
2 Buddhist religious festivals
3 Christian religious festivals
4 Hindu religious festivals
5 Islamic religious festivals
6 Messianic Jewish religious festivals
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7 Jewish religious festivals
8 External links

[edit] Ancient Roman religious festivals

Category:Ancient Roman festivals

[edit] Buddhist religious festivals

See Category:Buddhist festivals

[edit] Christian religious festivals

For Christian festivals see Christian year and liturgical year, Category:Christian festivals

[edit] Hindu religious festivals

Govinda celebrations during the Krishna Janmaashtami festivites.

See Category:Hindu festivals and List of Hindu festivals

Hindu festivals include:

[edit] Islamic religious festivals

See Category:Islamic festivals, Islamic calendar

Islamic religious festivals include:

[edit] Messianic Jewish religious festivals

See articles at Messianic Judaism

Messianic Judaism derives most of its liturgical influences directly from Judaism. It adds additional elements from the Christian tradition, since most outsiders would consider it a form of Christianity. Appointed times, called mo'edim, follow the standard Jewish liturgical calendar, though additional hermenuetical applications are derived in light of the teachings Jesus of Nazareth (Yeshua among other transliterations).

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Overview of the Mo'edim from a Messianic perspective

[edit] Jewish religious festivals

See articles at Jewish holidays, Ancient Jewish Festivals and Category:Jewish holy days.

Jewish holiday, (or Yom Tov or chag or ta'anit in Hebrew) is a day that is holy to the Jewish people according to Judaism and is usually derived from the Hebrew Bible, specifically the Torah, and in some cases established by the rabbis in later eras. The holidays always occur on the Jewish calendar only. There are a number of festival days, fast days and days of remembrance, collectively known as "Jewish holidays" in English, ("Yamim Tovim" or "chagim" in Hebrew).