{"id":145144,"date":"2018-08-21T07:31:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T04:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=145144"},"modified":"2018-08-22T15:05:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T12:05:36","slug":"president-al-assad-performs-eid-al-adha-prayer-at-al-rawda-mosque-in-damascus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=145144","title":{"rendered":"President al-Assad performs Eid al-Adha prayer at al-Rawda Mosque in Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Damascus, SANA \u2013 President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday performed Eid al-Adha holiday prayer at al-Rawda Mosque in Damascus.<\/p>\n

President al-Assad was accompanied in the prayer by the Minister of Religious Endowments (Awqaf), Grand Mufti of the Republic, a number of senior officials, People’s Assembly members, religious scholars, and a number of citizens.<\/p>\n

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Director of the Damascus Department of Religious Endowments Khedr Shahrour lead the prayer and delivered the holiday sermon, in which he talked about the symbolism and meaning of Eid al-Adha which emphasizes sacrifice, redemption, and faith.<\/p>\n

Shahrour said this holiday comes at a time when Syrians are experiencing the joy of victory thanks to the wisdom of Syria’s leader and the sacrifices of the Syrian Arab Army, asserting that President al-Assad \u201csteered the ship towards safety with wisdom and ability, proving to be a skilled captain.\u201d<\/p>\n

He prayed to God to protect Syria and its people, aid its army, have mercy on its martyrs, heal its wounded, and grant President al-Assad success in realizing the nation’s interests.<\/p>\n

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Damascus, SANA \u2013 President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday performed Eid al-Adha holiday prayer at al-Rawda Mosque in Damascus. President al-Assad was accompanied in the prayer by the Minister of Religious Endowments (Awqaf), Grand Mufti of the Republic, a number of senior officials, People’s Assembly members, religious scholars, and a number of citizens. Director of the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[495,115,23,429,430],"tags":[2686,4711,1138,4262,646],"class_list":["post-145144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-breaking-news","category-local","category-news-bar","category-presidency-of-arabic-syrian-republic","category-activities-mr-president","tag-eid-al-adha","tag-prayer","tag-president-al-assad","tag-president-assad","tag-president-bashar-al-assad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}