{"id":14185,"date":"2026-03-05T08:07:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/?p=14185"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:27:35","slug":"lent-and-ramadan-fr-steve-on-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/lent-and-ramadan-fr-steve-on-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent and Ramadan: Fr Steve on BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Fr Steve appeared on BBC London News on Wednesday, where he spoke about the meaning of Lent, and his comments are included in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn8z2ng73pxo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC News story<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">This year, Lent and Ramadan fall at the same time \u2014 a rare coinciding of a period of fasting, reflection, and prayer, which is shared by many in Bromley Borough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn8z2ng73pxo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"700\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14186\" src=\"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Picture1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Picture1.jpg 602w, https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Picture1-258x300.jpg 258w\"  sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr Steve appeared on BBC London News on Wednesday, where he spoke about the meaning of Lent, and his comments are included in this BBC News story. This year, Lent and Ramadan fall at the same time \u2014 a rare coinciding of a period of fasting, reflection, and prayer, which is shared by many in Bromley Borough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14199,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14185\/revisions\/14199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}