{"id":81967,"date":"2022-01-07T05:05:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T03:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=81967"},"modified":"2022-01-13T13:20:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T11:20:19","slug":"%d8%b1%d8%b3%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%81%d8%b1%d8%ad-%d8%ac%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%af%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d8%ae%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1-712022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d8%b1%d8%b3%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%81%d8%b1%d8%ad-%d8%ac%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%af%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d8%ae%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1-712022\/","title":{"rendered":"The Message of Joy\u00bb &#8211; Al-Akhbar Newspaper &#8211; 7\/1\/2022\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">I am pleased to felicitate you all with the beginning of 2022 and the Nativity which the Eastern Christians celebrate today, wishing all goodness and peace to our beloved Egypt, pleading for God to protect the world from the pandemic.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The Nativity recalls to minds the hymn of heaven chanted by the angels: <span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cgoodwill toward men\u201d<\/span>; as Nativity is a message of joy carried by the angels and delivered to mankind which had been stumbling in the darkness of life path, it is said: <span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cThe people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined.\u201d<\/span> Nativity is also a message of rejoicing in the peace restored between man and God: <span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cThe Lord will bless His people with peace.\u201d<\/span> It is also a message of rejoicing in fulfilling the prophecies given by God\u2019s men and prophets about the birth of Immanuel: <span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cBehold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,\u201d which is translated, \u201cGod with us.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Happy blessed many returns to all of you<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; font-size: 14pt;\">The General Bishop<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Cente<\/span>r<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased to felicitate you all with the beginning of 2022 and the Nativity which the Eastern Christians celebrate today, wishing all goodness and peace to our beloved Egypt, pleading for God to protect the world from the pandemic. The Nativity recalls to minds the hymn of heaven chanted by the angels: \u201cgoodwill toward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":11215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82055,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81967\/revisions\/82055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}