Why is Mothers Day celebrated on different dates around the world

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welcome back today is Mother's Day but not all countries celebrate moms on the second Sunday in May like we do here in the US in fact in Mexico Guatemala and El Salvador Mother's Day was on Friday so why does this special holiday fall on different dates the K1 verifi team looked into some of the origins and traditions to find out many of the countries around the globe celebrate Mother's Day on the 2 Sunday of May but not all of them we went to our sources to find out why let's start in the United Kingdom and what's known as mothering Sunday the holiday falls on the fourth Sunday in Lent which was March 10th this year the tradition goes back to the Middle Ages when people who had moved away for work would return to their mother church and their mothers on that Sunday in Mexico the holiday was the brainchild of journalist back in 1922 Raphael alducin was the founder of the newspaper Excel year and pushed in an editorial to make May 10th day to honor those who gave us life may is also important because the Catholic church honors the Virgin Mary during that month next we go to Egypt where the first celebrations of motherhood date back to the time of the Pharaohs in modern times the holiday is again credited to journalist this time Mustafa Amin he wrote about the American tradition of Mother's Day in 1943 book and advocated to celebrate it in Egypt he was successful and Mother's Day is now celebrated on March 21st and the beginning of the Spring Equinox in Thailand National Mother's Day as it's called is celebrated on August 12th which also happens to be the birthday of Queen siret and here in the US Mother's Day became an official holiday thanks to Anna Jarvis from Philadelphia after her mother's death she held memorial service in her Honor on May 12th 1907 she went on to campaign to make the Second Sunday in May holiday to honor all mothers and she was very convincing by 1914 President woodro Wilson had signed off and Mother's Day was celebrated in all 50 States and Canada today it also includes more than 90 countries with your fast facts I'm Ron trino