{"id":48623,"date":"2015-07-16T21:10:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T18:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=48623"},"modified":"2015-07-17T11:14:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T08:14:46","slug":"syria-celebrates-eid-al-fitr-2015-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=48623","title":{"rendered":"Syria celebrates Eid al-Fitr 2015 on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Damascus, SANA \u2013 President Bashar al-Assad received on Thursday a cable from the first religious judge in Damascus Mahmoud al-Ma\u2019arawi confirming that Friday, July 17<sup>th<\/sup>, 2015 is the first Day of Eid al-Fitr.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The First judge congratulated President al-Assad on this occasion, praying that it will bring good and blessing to the Syrian people and to the Arab and Islamic nations and herald Syria\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On this occasion, President al-Assad also received a congratulatory cable from Minister of Religious Endowments Dr. Mohammad Abdul-Sattar al-Sayyed, hoping God would protect Syria from its enemies and empower the Syrian army to defeat terrorism, praying for the rest of the martyrs\u2019 souls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a similar cable, Justice Minister Najm al-Ahmad congratulated President al-Assad and voiced hope that the Syrian Arab Army will defeat the terrorists and bring security back to the homeland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Grand Mufti of the Republic Ahmad Badr Eddin Hassoun said in a congratulatory cable that Eid al-Fitr marks over four years of Syria standing strong in the face of extremism and terrorism and all its enemies, hoping this occasion will herald a brighter future for Syria and its people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Judge al-Ma\u2019arawi confirmed Friday is the first day of Eid al-Fitr in Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He told SANA that the first day of Shawal for the Hejri year 1436 is Firday, July 17th, 2015, which means it is the first day of Eid al-Fitr (End of the holy month of Ramadan).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mazen\/Barry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA \u2013 President Bashar al-Assad received on Thursday a cable from the first religious judge in Damascus Mahmoud al-Ma\u2019arawi confirming that Friday, July 17th, 2015 is the first Day of Eid al-Fitr. The First judge congratulated President al-Assad on this occasion, praying that it will bring good and blessing to the Syrian people and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,116],"tags":[1660,1138],"class_list":["post-48623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-local","category-news-locals","tag-eid-al-fitr","tag-president-al-assad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48623"}],"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=48623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}