{"id":360850,"date":"2025-06-23T18:21:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=360850"},"modified":"2025-06-23T18:40:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:40:55","slug":"unesco-director-offers-condolences-for-victims-of-damascus-church-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=360850","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO Director Offers Condolences for Victims of Damascus Church Bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paris, SANA- The Director-General of the (UNESCO) Audrey Azoulay, expressed her heartfelt condolences for the Syrian people in the terrorist attack that targeted Mar Elias Church in Al-Duwailah area of Damascus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During her meeting with Syrian Minister of Culture, Dr. Mohammad Yassin Al-Salah, at UNESCO&#8217;s headquarters in Paris, Azoulay affirmed UNESCO&#8217;s solidarity with Syria in protecting innocent lives and preserving cultural and religious landmarks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For his part, the Minister of Culture emphasized that targeting places of worship in Syria is a direct attack on the values of diversity and tolerance that have formed the essence of Syrian identity throughout centuries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting discussed also mechanisms to enhance cooperation between Syria and UNESCO in cultural, educational, and scientific fields.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both sides stressed the importance of implementing UNESCO&#8217;s recent Executive Council decision on Syria, which includes protecting Syrian archaeological sites inscribed on the World Heritage list and supporting the educational sector amid current challenges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reem Safi\/Abdulrahim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris, SANA- The Director-General of the (UNESCO) Audrey Azoulay, expressed her heartfelt condolences for the Syrian people in the terrorist attack that targeted Mar Elias Church in Al-Duwailah area of Damascus. During her meeting with Syrian Minister of Culture, Dr. Mohammad Yassin Al-Salah, at UNESCO&#8217;s headquarters in Paris, Azoulay affirmed UNESCO&#8217;s solidarity with Syria in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":360859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-news-bar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360850"}],"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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360851,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360850\/revisions\/360851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/360859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}