Hasakah Christians celebrate Easter and wish Syria safety
The different Christian denominations in Syria, which celebrated on 28 April, through the prayers and masses in churches.
Easter is considered a Christian religious ritual, in which Christians celebrate their belief and that is the time that Jesus Christ wake from death three days after his crucifixion.
“Easter Sunday” is the most popular day in the Year for churches and prayers are the joy of the Christians by the waken of Jesus Christ, believing that his crucifixion and death are the fact that he hold the sin of his believers and thus bought them forgiveness.
In the city of Hasakah, hundreds of Orthodox believers celebrate and do their prayers at the St. Mar Georges Church of the Orthodox under strict security measures by (internal security of the self-administration).
The revelers set up prayers and mass by igniting candles, praying on Christ and celebrating Christ’s waken.
In an interview with the North Press, Bishop of the Al-Jazeera and Euphrates of the Orthodox, Bishop Morris said that they are celebrating today for “the waken of Christ from dead.”
“He also gave mercy to all those who sacrificed their blood in order to protect the Syrian identity.
Khozam, a young Syriac from the city of Hasakah, to North Press Easter to all Syrians, hoping that security and stability would prevail in Syria.
Easter celebrations, also called the “Big Feast”, are accompanied by popular traditions and customs that have been rooted for thousands of years and become an integral part of Easter rituals in Syria.
One of these is to boil eggs that symbolize the renewal of life and coloring it in “the Saturday of Light” where parents share their children by boiling eggs and coloring it, dating from the Phoenician era, when the Phoenicians were celebrating the coming of spring and autumn, the birth of nature and its death by providing 100 eggs as an sacrifice for the day.
Al-Hasakah–Jindar Abdulqader – NPA