Bahá’í fast “essentially a period of medidation and prayer”
LOS ANGELES, CA
26 February 2008 (BWNS)
Baha’is around the world will arise for prayers before sunup on March 2 as they begin their yearly fasting period - “an annual renewal of faith,” says Emerson Boergadine, a young photographer in Los Angeles.
“It’s an invigoration, an annual cleansing,” he said of the fast, which is a special time for prayer and also involves abstaining from food and drink between sunrise and sundown for 19 straight days. Members of the Baha’i Faith ages 15 to 70 observe the fast, which ends just before the Baha’i new year on March 21.