November 27 & 28 Holidays Retracted

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has retracted the previous Proclamation 1808 declaring as National Holidays, November 27 & 28 in celebration of the Eid'l Adha.

Instead, by virtue of Proclamation 1808-A, the non-working regional holidays is only applicable in the Autonumous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).


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Eid al-Adha (Arabic: عيد الأضحى‎ ‘Īdu l-’Aḍḥā) "Festival of Sacrifice" or "Greater Eid" is a Muslim Holiday celebrated by Muslims (including the Druze) worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ismael as an act of obedience to God. (source: wikipedia)