{"id":294081,"date":"2022-12-25T09:10:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T07:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/107.6.182.27\/en\/?p=294081"},"modified":"2022-12-25T11:06:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T09:06:30","slug":"masses-on-christmas-at-maronite-diocese-and-our-lady-of-fatima-syriac-catholic-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=294081","title":{"rendered":"Masses on Christmas at Maronite Diocese and Our Lady of Fatima Syriac Catholic Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Damascus, SANA- Christian denominations in Syria celebrated Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ, the messenger of love and peace, by holding masses and prayers in the churches and worship places.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A mass was held at St. Anthony\u2019s Church, the Maronite Archdiocese in Damascus, Sunday and it was presided over by Father Maroun Touma, and it was served by the church choir.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his sermon, Father Touma referred to the sublime and great meanings of Christmas and its values \u200b\u200bthat call for love, goodness and peace.<a href=\"http:\/\/107.6.182.27\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ch1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-294087 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/107.6.182.27\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ch1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Father Touma emphasized that thanks to the sacrifices of the martyrs of the valiant Syrian Arab army, we live free on the soil of our sacred homeland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Our Lady of Fatima Syriac Catholic church, Archbishop Mar Yohanna Jihad Battah, the Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Damascus, presided over a mass held on Christmas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his sermon, Bishop Battah said that the Syrians have remained steadfast thanks to their adherence to their belonging to their homeland despite the pain, difficulties and unjust siege imposed on them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWith the grace of God and the solidarity of our people with our heroic army and our leadership, we will overcome the impacts of the terrorist war, and we will rebuild our homeland.\u201d Bishop Battah said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bushra Dabin\/ Ruaa al-Jazaeri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA- Christian denominations in Syria celebrated Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ, the messenger of love and peace, by holding masses and prayers in the churches and worship places. A mass was held at St. Anthony\u2019s Church, the Maronite Archdiocese in Damascus, Sunday and it was presided over by Father Maroun Touma, and it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":294085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,23,447,455,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-local","category-news-bar","category-photographic-reports","category-governorates-news","category-slide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294081"}],"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=294081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/294085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}