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With regard to any particular festival, the guiding principle is how broadly the different segments of that religion accept the festival. The festivals noted in Multi Faith Calendar are annual events that people celebrate once during the course of a solar or lunar year. Other cycles of time are also important: the New or Full Moon, a Season, a Week day (for example, the Jewish Shabbat or the Friday prayers in a mosque), or a daily cycle (such as the Eucharist for traditional Christian communities)

For all major Faiths Information in Multi Faith Events Calendar Jan 2010 - April 2011 eBook
It should be remembered that many religious festivals are based on the lunar or solar calendars, or are on fixed dates which change with the common calendar year.

It is good practice for any organisations to have, or arrange access to, an up to date multi- faith event calendar available for planning purposes. Faiths will always be a work in progress, intended to be continually stretched upon with new and updated material.

NHS Missed Appointments. When the outpatients department of an NHS trust examined missed appointments, they found that patients from ethnic minorities were more likely to miss their appointments on certain religious dates.

Religious Festivals and Leave - Show sensitivity to faith communities’ needs during festivals. If you employ a large number of people from a particular faith community you will need to plan ahead (e.g. arranging for cover, setting up a rota system for allocating leave etc.) as many people from that faith community will ask for leave at the same time.