{"id":8326,"date":"2025-05-09T21:24:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T21:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/m-syria-d.com\/en\/?p=8326"},"modified":"2025-05-09T21:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T21:24:22","slug":"congratulatory-message-from-the-sdc-to-his-holiness-pope-leo-xiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m-syria-d.com\/en\/?p=8326","title":{"rendered":"Congratulatory Message from the SDC to His Holiness Pope Leo XIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Your Holiness Pope Leo XIV<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Head of the Vatican City State<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Vatican City<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Greetings and blessings,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) extends to Your Holiness its heartfelt congratulations and warmest wishes on the occasion of your election and assumption of the Apostolic See, succeeding His Holiness Pope Francis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Your election at this pivotal moment brings a renewed message of hope to the faithful and to peoples striving for peace and justice. In Syria as a whole\u2014and especially in the northeastern region\u2014the values of coexistence and diversity are deeply rooted in our society. We greatly value the spiritual and humanitarian role that the Catholic Church continues to play in the world. In Your Holiness, we see a powerful symbol of interfaith dialogue and a bridge for understanding among different religions and cultures.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We wish Your Holiness success and wisdom in fulfilling your noble mission. We also express our hope for future collaboration that upholds the values of human dignity. It is our sincere desire to work together to protect the presence of all communities\u2014especially the authentic Christian presence\u2014in our region.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>With the Highest Consideration and Best Wishes<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Syrian Democratic\u00a0Council<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Holiness Pope Leo XIV Head of the Vatican City State Vatican City Greetings and blessings, The Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) extends to Your Holiness its heartfelt congratulations and warmest wishes on the occasion of your election and assumption of the Apostolic See, succeeding His Holiness Pope Francis. Your election at this pivotal moment brings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[827,828,829],"class_list":["post-8326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-official-letters","tag-his-holiness","tag-pope-leoxiv","tag-vatican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-syria-d.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-syria-d.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-syria-d.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-syria-d.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-syria-d.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m-syria-d.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8327,"href":"https:\/\/m-syria-d.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326\/revisions\/8327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-syria-d.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-syria-d.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-syria-d.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-syria-d.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}