Syria Edition
World Family Photo Box Day leads today's complete edition for Syria.
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Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
A day for printed pictures, old phones, albums, names written on backs, and the people a household remembers together.
National holiday. A significant day for Burkina's Catholic community. Churches fill, choirs sing, and afterward everyone gathers for a meal that always includes riz gras. The faith runs deep in the Centre-Ouest and the processions through Koudougou and Ouaga are a sight that stays with you.
The Assumption of Mary is celebrated by the Christian community with liturgies in the ancient churches of Damascus, Aleppo, and the Wadi al-Nasara. The Syrian Christian tradition : encompassing Greek Orthodox, Syriac Orthodox, Armenian, and Maronite communities : is one of the oldest continuous Christian traditions in the world, and the liturgy includes prayers in Aramaic, the language of Christ. In Saidnaya, the ancient convent of the Virgin Mary draws pilgrims from across the Christian world, and the miracle-working icon of the Virgin is said to have been painted by Saint Luke.
