{"id":16059,"date":"2016-06-30T08:45:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T08:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=16059"},"modified":"2016-06-30T08:45:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T08:45:56","slug":"syria-christians-in-aleppo-feed-poor-muslims-during-ramadan-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2016\/06\/30\/syria-christians-in-aleppo-feed-poor-muslims-during-ramadan-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"SYRIA &#8211; Christians in Aleppo feed poor Muslims during Ramadan &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>SYRIA &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Christians in Aleppo\u00a0offer food to<\/strong><strong>\u00a0poor Muslims during Ramadan<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the intensive battles going on all around them, Syriac Orthodox Christians in Aleppo are providing food to poor Muslim families during Ramadan. Ramadan is a Muslim month of fasting and intense prayer and which commemorates the revelation of the Quran to Islam\u2019s Prophet Muhammad. \u00a0In Ramadan Muslims must fast during daylight hours, though food and drink are taken before dawn and after sunset. It ends with the holiday Eid al-Fitr, which breaks the fast. This year, Ramadan lasts from June 5-July 5.<\/p>\n<p>Parishioners from the Archdiocese of Aleppo are offering breakfast and evening meals to the poorest Muslim families living in the predominantly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourhealthissues.com\/product\/cymbalta\/\">http:\/\/www.ourhealthissues.com\/product\/cymbalta\/<\/a> Christian and Armenian Sulaimaniyah neighborhood of the city. The food is prepared by the Christian families themselves and distributed from a main centre at the archdiocese\u2019s Cathedral of St. Ephrem the Syrian.<\/p>\n<p>The motive for this simple humanitarian gesture is to express solidarity between people of different religions with the hope that eventually, the peaceful coexistence that existed among Syria\u2019s various religious and ethnic communities before the war will be restored.<\/p>\n<p>The Syriac Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo is still formally under the authority of Archbishop Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim, who was kidnapped near Turkey in April 2013 along with the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Aleppo, Boulos Yazigi.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>\u00a0ACN Malta<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYRIA &#8211;\u00a0Christians in Aleppo\u00a0offer food to\u00a0poor Muslims during Ramadan &nbsp; &nbsp; Despite the intensive battles going on all around them, Syriac Orthodox Christians in Aleppo are providing food to poor Muslim families during Ramadan. 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