{"id":15247,"date":"2025-07-18T01:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=15247"},"modified":"2025-07-18T01:18:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:18:31","slug":"palace-declares-nov-7-special-national-working-holiday-for-muslim-filipinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2025\/07\/18\/palace-declares-nov-7-special-national-working-holiday-for-muslim-filipinos\/","title":{"rendered":"PALACE DECLARES NOV 7 SPECIAL NATIONAL WORKING HOLIDAY FOR MUSLIM FILIPINOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>IN recognition of the vital contributions of Muslim Filipinos in the development of the country\u2019s culture and civilization, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has declared November 7 of each year as a special national working holiday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>President Marcos signed&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialgazette.gov.ph\/2025\/07\/09\/republic-act-no-12228\/\">Republic Act No. 12228<\/a><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;on July 9, 2025, which designated November 7 as Sheikh Karim\u2019ul Makhdum Day to commemorate the establishment of the country\u2019s first mosque and the introduction of Islam in the Philippines.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The first Philippine mosque was erected in Tawi-Tawi, following the arrival of Shariff Karim\u2019ul Makhdum, an Arab missionary who played a crucial role in propagating Islam in the region.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt is the policy of the State to instill inclusivity to all regardless of religious beliefs, in line with the constitutional right to freely exercise and enjoy their religion,\u201d Section 2 of RA 12228 read.<\/strong><strong>\u201cMoreover, it is the State\u2019s policy to provide due recognition to the indispensable contributions of Muslim Filipinos in the development of Philippine culture and civilization,\u201d it added<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN recognition of the vital contributions of Muslim Filipinos in the development of the country&rsquo;s culture and civilization, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has declared<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15249,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15247\/revisions\/15249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}