The Syriac Union in Qamishli blesses Easter and calls for constitutional peace in the country
Qamishli – North-Press Agency
On Sunday, the Syriac Union Party issued a statement on Easter Day, congratulating the Syrian Assyrian Chaldean people celebrating Easter (according to the Eastern Calendar), calling for a constitutional peace in Syria that protects the rights of all religions and nationalities.
The Syriac Union said: "The resurrection of Christ is one of the most important pillars of the Christian religion, sacrifice is the path taken in order to save people from injustice and slavery and the pursuit to live in peace that pervades peoples."
The master priest Paulus Khano, Secretary of the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Jerusalem and Jordan for the Syriac Orthodox Church in Jordan and Palestine, said in a special statement to North-Press yesterday, Saturday:
Holy Saturday, which ends with Easter Sunday, is considered one of the most important days that Christians wait for during the year, as "on this day, the holy light overflows the grave of Christ in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.”
On this day, Christians light 33 candles on what they believe to be the tomb of Christ, which symbolize the number of the years that Christ lived.
The Syriac Union statement added that Christian people in Syria underwent dangerous events and challenges by many terrorist forces that were aiming to annihilate them, and called for resorting to forgiveness and confidence-building measures between all the Syrian democratic parties in preparation for reaching peace based on a consensual democratic constitution.
The statement also touched on the threat of the global coronavirus and said that it increases the suffering of the Syrian people, calling on the occasion of this glorious holiday to heal the whole world from this virus.
The Syriac Union Party, via the statement, appealed to the international community, including governments, organizations and institutions, to provide the necessary support to develop the health sector in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, "which suffers greatly in light of the wars, challenges and siege we have experienced in our regions."
Due to the measures taken by governments to prevent the novel coronavirus, this year, unlike in previous years, churches did not make any major celebrations for the coming of Easter.