{"id":360785,"date":"2025-06-23T13:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T10:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=360785"},"modified":"2025-06-23T13:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T10:36:06","slug":"egyptian-minister-of-religious-endowments-targeting-a-church-in-damascus-is-an-assault-on-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=360785","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian Minister of Religious Endowments: Targeting a Church in Damascus is an assault on humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cairo, SANA-Egypt\u2019s Minister of Religious Endowments, Dr. Osama al-Azhari, strongly condemned the treacherous terrorist attack that targeted Mar Elias Church in Dweilaa districtin Damascus on Sunday, resulting in the martyrs and injuries of innocent civilians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement issued Monday, the minister stressed that \u201cattacking places of worship is a heinous crime that contravenes all divine religious teachings. It constitutes a blatant violation of the sanctity of worship sites, societal security and stability, and shared religious and humanitarian values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister extended his heartfelt condolences and sympathy to the families of the victims and to the Syrian people, praying that God envelops the deceased in His vast mercy, grants a swift recovery to the injured, and protects Syria and all nations from the scourge of terrorism and aggression.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nawal\/Manar Salameh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo, SANA-Egypt\u2019s Minister of Religious Endowments, Dr. Osama al-Azhari, strongly condemned the treacherous terrorist attack that targeted Mar Elias Church in Dweilaa districtin Damascus on Sunday, resulting in the martyrs and injuries of innocent civilians. In a statement issued Monday, the minister stressed that \u201cattacking places of worship is a heinous crime that contravenes all &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":360786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,23,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-news-bar","category-syria-and-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360785"}],"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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360787,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360785\/revisions\/360787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/360786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}