Proclamation No. 1808 Declaring Eid'l Adha as a National Holiday

April 12, 2009

PROCLAMATION NO. 1808

DECLARING EID'L ADHA AS A NATIONAL HOLIDAY

WHEREAS, RA No. 9492 provides that Eid'l Adha shall be celebrated as a regional holiday in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao;

WHEREAS, Eid'l Adha is one of the two greatest feasts of Islam; SEIacA

WHEREAS, Eid'l Adha falls on November 27-28, 2009;

WHEREAS, the great feasts of the Christian Church such as Christmas Day, Easter Sunday, and All Saints' Day are national holidays;

WHEREAS, to guide our search for peace, one principle is that our society is a multi-ethnic one which should be founded on social justice for all and the institutionalized accommodation of ethnic traditions. Christian and Muslim are but a few of names to which the Filipino responds, in a wondrous testimony to our rich and varied heritage as a nation.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GLORIA M. ARROYO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare November 27-28, 2009, Friday and Saturday respectively, as national holidays.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunder set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

DONE on Easter Sunday, this 12th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Nine.