{"id":164481,"date":"2019-04-28T16:03:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T13:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=164481"},"modified":"2019-04-28T17:25:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T14:25:44","slug":"presidential-affairs-minister-congratulates-heads-of-christian-denominations-that-follow-julian-calendar-on-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=164481","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Affairs Minister congratulates heads of Christian denominations that follow Julian calendar on Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA- Upon the directives of President Bashar al-Assad, Presidential Affairs Minister Mansour Azzam on Sunday visited heads of Christian denominations that follow the Julian calendar, relaying the congratulations of President al-Assad on occasion of Easter.<\/p>\n<p>Azzam offered congratulations to Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All East Mar Ignatius Aphram II and Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All East, John X Yazigi.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-164483 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2-90-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2-90-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2-90-310x205.jpg 310w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2-90.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For his part, Patriarch Aphram II said that Easter celebrations confirm the will of life of the Syrian people to face terrorism and the unjust siege imposed on Syria.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, Patriarch Yazigi said that what the Syrian people are currently experiencing requires more self-reliance, and determination in order to face the unjust blockade on them.<\/p>\n<p>Shaza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA- Upon the directives of President Bashar al-Assad, Presidential Affairs Minister Mansour Azzam on Sunday visited heads of Christian denominations that follow the Julian calendar, relaying the congratulations of President al-Assad on occasion of Easter. Azzam offered congratulations to Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All East Mar Ignatius Aphram II and Greek Orthodox &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,115],"tags":[4807,10658,5852,11785,8827,11995,8217],"class_list":["post-164481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-local","tag-easter","tag-greek-orthodox-patriarch-of-antioch-and-all-east","tag-john-x-yazigi","tag-mansour-azzam","tag-mar-ignatius-aphram-ii","tag-presidential-affairs-minister","tag-syriac-orthodox-patriarch-of-antioch-and-all-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164481"}],"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=164481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/164482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}