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Resolution Map Day leads today's complete edition for Syria.
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New Year's Resolutions are nearly universal failures in every culture. Now that New Year's Day is a few days behind, if you truly intend to make change, today is when you map realistic goals on a calendar and write daily steps you can take to make goals real. If you won't write it today, you'll have nothing to follow tomorrow.
The Orthodox Christmas is celebrated on January 7th by Syria's Greek Orthodox, Syriac Orthodox, and Armenian Christian communities : roughly 10% of the population but one of the oldest continuous Christian communities on Earth. The celebration centres on midnight mass in churches that have stood since the earliest centuries of Christianity: the Chapel of Saint Paul in Damascus, the Church of Saint Simeon near Aleppo, and the ancient monasteries of the Wadi al-Nasara (Valley of the Christians). The traditional Christmas meal includes kibbeh, fatteh, and ma'amoul (date-filled cookies). Syrian Christmas is not about presents; it is about presence : visiting every relative you have on Christmas Day, and the house must never be empty of guests.