Here are some wonderful images from across the world on the first day of Ramadan.
A Kenyan muslim washes his face in Masjid Nur in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, May 18, 2018 on the first Friday in the holy month of Ramadan. (AP/Sayyid Abdul Azim).
Students perform an afternoon prayer during the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at Ar-Raudlatul Hasanah Islamic Boarding School in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Thursday, May 17, 2018. (AP/Binsar Bakkara)
Palestinians perform an evening prayer called 'tarawih' marking the first eve of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, outside the tents of the protest camp near the Israeli border east of Gaza City. (AP /Adel Hana).
A laborer sleeps in his wheelbarrow as he waits for customers during the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP/Rahmat Gul).
Kashmiri Muslims pray on a road India announced Wednesday that its troops will halt counterinsurgency operations in disputed Kashmir during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, its first such declaration in 18 years. (AP/Mukhtar Khan).
Students read the Quran during the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at Ar-Raudlatul Hasanah Islamic Boarding School in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. (AP/Binsar Bakkara).
Indian Muslim children learn to read the Quran at Jama Masjid mosque on the first day of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan in Ahmadabad, India, Thursday, May 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki).
Muslim worshippers read the Quran, Islam's holy book, at Abdul-Qadir al-Gailani mosque in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP/Karim Kadim).
A boy buys a Ramadan decoration depicting the Egyptian Liverpool soccer player Mohamed Salah in Sayyeda Zeinab market in preparation for the holy month of Ramadan, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 16, 2018. (AP/Amr Nabil).
A man in Ottoman attire poses for pictures as people break their fast in the historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul (AP/Emrah Gurel).
Pakistani perform an evening prayer called 'tarawih' marking the first eve of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 16, 2018. (AP/Fareed Khan).
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