{"id":360701,"date":"2025-06-23T10:41:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T07:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=360701"},"modified":"2025-06-23T12:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T09:37:17","slug":"patriarch-al-rahi-condemns-terrorist-bombing-at-mar-elias-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=360701","title":{"rendered":"Patriarch al-Rahi condemns terrorist attack on Mar Elias Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beirut, SANA- Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros al-Rahi has condemned the terrorist bombing that occurred inside Mar Elias Church, urging the promotion of love, dialogue, and mutual respect as a path to peace in Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a statement released by the Patriarch\u2019s media office and reported by Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency, \u201cHis Beatitude Patriarch Mar Bechara Boutros al-Rahi was deeply pained by the heinous terrorist bombing that took place on Sunday inside Mar Elias Church in Dweilaa district of the Syrian capital, Damascus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement affirmed that the Patriarch denounces all forms of violence and attacks on houses of worship, prayer, and innocent civilians, and called for prayers and unified efforts\u2014both domestically and internationally\u2014to foster a culture of love, dialogue, and respect for others, in order to achieve peace not only in Syria but across the entire region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nisreen Othman \/ Manar Salameh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beirut, SANA- Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros al-Rahi has condemned the terrorist bombing that occurred inside Mar Elias Church, urging the promotion of love, dialogue, and mutual respect as a path to peace in Syria. According to a statement released by the Patriarch\u2019s media office and reported by Lebanon\u2019s National News Agency, \u201cHis Beatitude &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":360702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-syria-and-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360701"}],"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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360701"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360763,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360701\/revisions\/360763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/360702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}