{"id":227467,"date":"2026-03-20T13:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-urges-compassion-and-unity-in-eid-message\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:09:08","slug":"kenya-ruto-urges-compassion-and-unity-in-eid-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-urges-compassion-and-unity-in-eid-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto Urges Compassion and Unity in Eid Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto has called for unity and compassion among Kenyans as the Muslim faithful mark Eid ul-Fitr.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The head of state in a statement issued to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan urged Kenyans to uphold values of generosity and social cohesion during this period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Ruto underscored the importance of the season in strengthening faith and fostering national harmony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">&#8220;We join the Muslim community in celebrating Eid al-Fitr following the sacred month of Ramadan, a time of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603200044.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto has called for unity and compassion among Kenyans as the Muslim faithful mark Eid ul-Fitr. The head of state in a statement issued to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan urged Kenyans to uphold values of generosity and social cohesion during this period. Ruto underscored the importance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":227468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00331082:0f463c56cd0b7602f9b6cfe9e207750b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6209,11025,4688,430,8147,257,11238,254,4019,6810],"class_list":["post-227467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-compassion","tag-eid","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-message","tag-news","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unity","tag-urges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00331082:0f463c56cd0b7602f9b6cfe9e207750b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}