{"id":1620,"date":"2024-04-16T15:54:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T12:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2024-04-16T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T13:42:11","slug":"the-meeting-of-the-council-of-heads-of-the-catholic-churches-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/1620","title":{"rendered":"the meeting of the Council of Heads of the Catholic Churches in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">His Beatitude the Patriarch participates in the meeting of the Council of Heads of the Catholic Churches in Syria<br \/>\nMaronite Archdiocese of Latakia &#8211; Tartous<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">At exactly eleven o&#8217;clock in the morning on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, His Beatitude Patriarch Mar Ignatius Youssef III Younan, Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, participated in the meeting of the Council of Heads of Catholic Churches in Syria, at the headquarters of the Maronite Archdiocese of Latakia, in the city of Tartous.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">His Beatitude Youssef Al-Absi, Greek Melkite Catholic Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, also participated.<br \/>\nHis Eminence Cardinal Mario Zenari, the Apostolic Nuncio to Syria, and Their Eminences the Bishops of the Catholic Churches in Syria.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Participating from our Syriac Catholic Church were their Eminences: Mar Dionysius Antoine Shahada, Archbishop of Aleppo, Mar John Jihad Battah, Archbishop of Damascus, Mar Yacoub Joseph Shimey, Archbishop of Hasakah and Nusaybin, Mar Yulian Yacoub Murad, Archbishop of Homs, Hama, and Nabek, as well as the Secretary of the\u00a0 Council, Father Amer Qassar.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">His Beatitude, our Father the Patriarch, offered prayers to the Lord Jesus, risen from the dead, so that the work of the meeting would be crowned with success, especially with regard to the election of chairs of the Council\u2019s committees, so that they would carry out their work and service effectively, so that our testimony as church shepherds would be accepted by the Lord and the Church.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">His Beatitude, our Father the Patriarch, offered prayers to the Lord Jesus, risen from the dead, so that the work of the meeting would be crowned with success, especially with regard to the election of chairs of the Council\u2019s committees, so that they would carry out their work and service effectively, so that our testimony as church shepherds would be accepted by the Lord and the Church.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">His Beatitude Patriarch Al-Absi also delivered a speech in which he welcomed all the participants, addressing the most prominent raised topics , and asking God to bless this meeting.<br \/>\nThe papal ambassador delivered a speech to the participants in which he conveyed a greeting of fatherly love and blessing from His Holiness Pope Francis, wishing this meeting a success.<br \/>\nDuring this meeting, the attendees discussed church affairs dealing with the spiritual and pastoral services that the church provides to believers in light of the current circumstances. They also elected new chairs for various council committees.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/435949835_443583828031744_2594063496911034904_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1627 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/435949835_443583828031744_2594063496911034904_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/435949835_443583828031744_2594063496911034904_n.jpg 800w, https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/435949835_443583828031744_2594063496911034904_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/435949835_443583828031744_2594063496911034904_n-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/435949835_443583828031744_2594063496911034904_n-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/436403261_443583831365077_3146911787804752196_n-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1628 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/436403261_443583831365077_3146911787804752196_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/436403261_443583831365077_3146911787804752196_n-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/436403261_443583831365077_3146911787804752196_n-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/436403261_443583831365077_3146911787804752196_n-1-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Beatitude the Patriarch participates in the meeting of the Council of Heads of the Catholic Churches in Syria Maronite Archdiocese of Latakia &#8211; Tartous At exactly eleven o&#8217;clock in the morning on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, His Beatitude Patriarch Mar Ignatius Youssef III Younan, Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, participated in the meeting of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archeparchy-news","category-patriarchal-news","category-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1629,"href":"https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions\/1629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrcathoms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}