Damascus-Sana
President Bashar Al-Assad congratulated the members of the Christian sects that follow the Western calendar on the occasion of the glorious Easter holiday, wishing them and all Syrians continued health, goodness and peace.
Mansour Azzam, Minister of Presidential Affairs, conveyed the congratulations of President Al-Assad to His Beatitude Joseph Al-Absi, Patriarch of the Melkite Roman Catholics, Reverend Boutros Za'our, President of the Evangelical Synod in Syria and Lebanon, Spiritual Head of the National Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Damascus, and His Eminence Archbishop Mar Youhanna Jihad Battah, Archbishop of Damascus for the Syriac Catholics, and Father Malek Malous Ra’i The Chaldean Church and HG Bishop Joseph Arnaouti, Archbishop of Damascus for the Armenian Catholic Archdiocese, HG Bishop Samir Nassar, Archbishop of Damascus the Maronite Church, Father Bahjat Gargash, Head of the Latin Monastery in Damascus, and HG Bishop Armash Nalbandian, Archbishop of Damascus for the Armenian Orthodox, and to the members of their honorable sects on the glorious Easter holiday.
In their turn, the heads of the Christian sects expressed their thanks to President al-Assad for his congratulations to them on this occasion, wishing him, his family and all Syrians continued health and wellness, expressing their hope that God would protect Syria, its people and its leadership, and have mercy on its martyrs and heal its wounds, and they affirmed their complete confidence in the ability of Syria and its people to overcome the consequences of the terrorist war and siege and restore Security and stability in all its quarters.