Nativity Fasting

Suleiman Shafik

Coptic Egyptian citizens started the Nativity Fasting today according to the Coptic Orthodox Church s ritual. Fasting people abstain from food for a period of time and then they eat only vegetarian foods, and they can eat fish since this is a second degree fasting. They fast for 43 days 40 of them to commemorate the fasting of Moses the Prophet and 3 to remember the miracle of moving the Mokattam Mount. The fasting