The Friday fast is a Christian practice of variously (depending on the denomination) abstaining from meat, dairy products and alcohol, on Fridays, or...

meaning "fast day". In both biblical and modern Hebrew, Friday is יום שישי Yom Shishi meaning "the sixth day". In most Indian languages, Friday is Shukravāra...

Concilium, on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and where possible, throughout Holy Saturday, both abstinence and fasting are required of Catholics who are not...

Reformed, Presbyterian and Congregationalist churches), observe Good Friday with fasting and church services. In many Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and Methodist...

also fasts on every Wednesday and Friday (except on special holidays), together with extended fasting periods before Christmas (the Nativity Fast), after...

Good Friday fast became the principal fast in the calendar, and even after the Reformation in Germany many Lutherans who observed no other fast scrupulously...

Tahsas. The Fast of (gahad)/ If Christmas or Timket (Theophany) fall on a Wednesday or a Friday, then the obligatory Wednesday/Friday fast is observed...

Isserlies that one who breaks the adjusted Thursday fast might be required to fast on Friday, as perhaps the fast is considered to have been moved to whichever...

abstinence from meat (cf. Friday fast). The tradition of Christians fasting on Fridays to recognize Jesus's crucifixion on Good Friday dates to the first century...

Christianity portal Christian dietary laws Christian fasting Christian vegetarianism Friday fast Ta'anit, a fast in Judaism "royal rations of food" or "food from...