Calling friends and family

Important days and holidays are when we miss friends and family most. But with the Ratebuster phone service there's no excuse for not keeping in touch! With low, low call charges all day, every day you can cheap call Australia at Christmas time. Or cheap call India at Diwali. In fact cheap international calls are a great reason to stay in touch all year round.

But if you ever need extra reasons to make full use of cheap calls from Ratebuster, our calendar of religious festivals and cultural events for 2007 might help. It shows the dates of all the major religious festivals for Christians, Muslims, Hindus and Jews and some popular non-religious events too. All of which are times when you might feel you want to make a cheap international call to get in touch with friends and family.

Religious Festivals and Events 2009

Non-religious
New Year's Day	January 1st
Australia Day	January 26th
St Valentine's Day	February 14th
Chinese New Year	January 26th to 28th
St David's Day	March 1st
St Patrick's Day	March 17th
Mothering Sunday	March 22nd UK, May 10th USA
St George's Day	April 23rd
ANZAC Day	April 27 in lieu of Saturday 25th
Freedom Day - South Africa	April 27th
Republic Day - Italy	June 2nd
American Independence Day	July 4th
Bastille Day - France	July 14th
Thanksgiving - Canada	October 12th
Halloween	October 31st
Remembrance Sunday	November 8th
Thanksgiving - USA	November 26th
St Andrew's Day	November 30th
Baha'i
World Religion Day	January 20th
Ascension of Baha'u'llah	May 29th
Martyrdom of the Bab	July 9th
Birth of the B'ab	October 20th
Birth of Baha'u'llah	November 12th
Day of Covenant	November 26th
Buddhist
Nirvana Day	February 8th
Chinese New Year	January 26th to 28th
Magha Puja Day	March 11th
Buddha Day - Visakha Puja	May 9th
Bodhi Day (Rohatsu)	December 8th
Christian
Mary, Mother of Jesus - Catholic	January 1st
Feast of St Basil - Orthodox	January 1st
Twelfth Night	January 5th
Epiphany	January 6th
Baptism of the Lord Jesus	January 11th
Shrove Tuesday	February 24th
Ash Wednesday	February 25th
Palm Sunday	April 5th
Good Friday	April 10th
Easter	April 12th
Easter/Pesach - Orthodox	April 19th
St. James the Great Day - Orthodox	April 30th
Ascension of Christ	May 21st
Pentecost	May 31st
Trinity	June 7th
Corpus Christi - Catholic	June 14th
Sacred Heart of Jesus - Catholic	June 19th
St Benedict Day - Catholic	July 11th
St. James the Great Day	July 25th
Fast in honor of Holy Mother of Lord Jesus - Orthodox	August 1st
Lammas	August 1st
Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary - Catholic	August 15th
Dormition of the Theotokos - Orthodox	August 15th
St Francis Day - Catholic	October 4th
Reformation Day - Protestant	October 25th
All Hallows Eve	October 31st
All Saints' Day	November 1st
All Souls' Day - Catholic	November 2nd
First Sunday of Advent	November 29th
Immaculate Conception - Catholic	December 8th
Feast day - Our Lady of Guadalupe - Catholic	December 12th
Christmas	December 25th
St Stephen's Day	December 26th
Christmas Day	December 25th
Hindu
Makar Sankranti	Janury 14th
Vasant Panchami	January 31st
Maha Shiva Ratri	February 23rd
Holi	March 11th
Chetra Navratras (Navarati)	March 19th
Bikarami Samvat	April 6th
Rama Navami	April 3rd
Raksha Bandhan Rakhi	August 5th
Krishna Jayanti	August 14th
Ganesh Chaturthi	August 23rd
Asuj Navratras begin	September 19th
Dassehra	September 28th
Karva Chauth Vrat (fast)	October 8th
Diwali (Festival of Lights)	October 17th
Islamic
Ashura	January 7th
Mawlid an Nabi - Sunni	March 9th
Mawlid an Nabi - Shi'a	March 14th
Lailat al Miraj	Aptil 20th
Lailat al Bara'ah	August 8th
Ramadan begins	August 22nd
Laylat el qadr	september 17th
Eid al Fitr (Ramadan ends)	September 21st
Waqf al Arafa	November 25th
Id al Adha	November 27th
Al Hijra 1431AH - New Year	December 18th
Jewish
Tu Bishvat	February 9th
Purim	March 10th
Pesach (Passover)	April 9th - April 16th
Yom Ha'Shoah	April 21st
Yom Ha'atzmaut	April 29th
Lag Ba'omer	May 12th
Shavuot	May 29th
Tisha B'Av	July 30th
Rosh HaShanah - New Year 5769	September 19th
Yom Kippur	September 28th
Sukkot	October 3rd
Shemini Atzeret	October 10th
Simchat Torah	October 11th
Hanukkah	December 12th
Shinto
Gantan-sai (New Years)	January 1st
Sikh
Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh	January 5th
Maghi	January 13th
Sikh New Year 541	March 14th
Baisakhi	April 13th
Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev Ji	June 16th
Birthday of Guru Nanak Dev	November 2nd
Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur	November 24th
Zoroastrian
Norooz (The New Day)	March 21st
Khordad Sal (Birth of Prophet Zaranhushtra)	March 26th
Zarathosht Diso (Death of Prophet Zarathushtra)	December 26th

* These are provisional dates and are dependant on sighting the new moon.

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Make the most of cheap international calls

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Once you have the access number, using Ratebuster couldn't be simpler:

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You can make international calls from as little as 1p a minute to some destinations - so whether you're calling just to say hello, or you want to share a special event like New Year or Ramadan, you can afford to keep in touch with family and friends wherever they are in the world.