Syria’s upheaval hasn’t stopped its Christian minority from preparing for their festive season.
Many are celebrating a new government and the ousting of Assad.
But others are still dealing with the pain of losing loved ones during the war and are worried about the future.
Al Jazeera’s Laura Khan reports.
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Merry Christmas to Syrians! God bless you all, prayers for you all. Protect each other against evil
Merry Christmas 🎁⛄ from Philippines 🇵🇭
Merry Christmas from 🇨🇦! Everybody looks so happy here in this montage after so many tumultuous years.
As you celebrate Jesus’s birthday, I remind you that Jesus was a Jew from the land of Israel.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️
Freedom
I want to book flights to go to Syria and see the beautiful side it has to offer
God bless you all love from India North east
Omgeee so funny i couldn’t stop laughing how the media laing im Syrian Christians ✝️ in asad government was Christmas great same as Europe and American 😅😅😅😅the media said Christians in Syria for the first time celebrating 🍾 Christmas 😅😅😅😅😅😅 do u thing people around the world stupid hahaha
Prayers to all the Christians, Islamic rule is a bad idea but democracy under law would be great and Syria would become more like Turkey, like they were before.
May the Syrian people receive peace and love this hoilday season.
During the ISIS era, many Christians were massacred, and the Middle Eastern people were silent, including Iran, as if they were celebrating it. Amazingly, there were still some who survived, even though their Christmas trees were burned.

God bless y’all for your kind words
Let’s hope and pray for bright future for Syria and peace in the world❤❤
Pray and pray 🙏 ❤❤❤always pray ❤
Hallelujah from Malaysia ❤
☪️ancer
Merry Christmas
Now the Christians are talking. Now santa Claus is in Syria.
Merry Christmas!
Amen ❤
God bless the Syrian people…..
Under sharia is for the real christians everything beter
Muslim ☪️😡😡😡
Semoga saat ini dan ke depannya Suriah menjadi negara yang makmur, aman, damai, tenteram, pemerintah dan rakyatnya bahagia..🙏🙏🙏, salam damai dari Indonesia 🇮🇩 untuk seluruh rakyat Suriah..🙏🙏🙏..
Merry Christmas to All Syrians
A gift from god now you can start a new life..merry xmas my brothers and sisters..
La navidad se trata de festejar en familia con tus seres queridos hacer las pases con tus enemigos ayudar alos que menos tienen alos desafortunados y sobre todo ❤Amarse los unos alos Otros❤
-Palabra De Dios✝️🕊
this is where St. Paul is from? St. Ephraim as well (I have his book which I study, beautiful hymns and writings of Jesus)
Merry Christmas you all
I hope syrian people have long lasting peace
Merry Chistmas from Indonesia 🇮🇩🇸🇾
please
accept YESHUA HAMASHIACH / ( that’s JESUS CHRIST/MESSIAH in Hebrew
YESHUA is the Messiah HE fulfilled the prophecies! accept JESUS CHRIST as your LORD GOD and SAVIOR
Like Daniel chapter 9
In 538 BC, the angel Gabriel gave Daniel a prophecy pinpointing when the Messiah would arrive. “Know and understand this,” Gabriel told him (Daniel 9:25). While Daniel may have understood it, somewhere along the way that insight has been lost. Old Testament scholars have long been debating the prophecy’s meaning, but one scholar, Harold Hoehner, had a particularly astounding interpretation.
While in Babylon, Daniel read the Scriptures, learning that Jeremiah had foretold both the Babylonian captivity and the Israelites’ return to their homeland after 70 years. In response, Daniel confessed the sins of the nation in prayer, inciting the angel Gabriel to visit and deliver this message:
Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.
Breaking Down the Daniel Prophecy
In taking a closer look at the Daniel passage, one thing is clear: it is about the Messiah. We see that the term “Messiah,” or “Anointed One,” is capitalized. It is also clear that a formula of sorts is provided to calculate when the Messiah will appear. The difficulties come in interpreting the formula. One such difficulty is determining the meaning of “weeks,” which is used in a number of translations. (NIV uses the term “sevens” instead of “weeks.”) In ancient Hebrew, “weeks” had a number of meanings, which scholars can determine by the context. The context in the Daniel passage shows that “weeks” means “seven units.” Using this definition, we can calculate when the Messiah will arrive: (7 x 7) + (62 x 7) = 49 + 434 = 483 years.
The prophecy further says that after the Messiah arrives, he will be “put to death and will have nothing.” The word “after” is very important. After the Messiah arrives, he will be put to death. Jesus’s crucifixion fulfills that prophecy.
We now know that the Messiah would arrive 483 years in the future. But does the prophecy specify a beginning date? The prophecy tells us: “From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem.” So, who ordered this decree to restore Jerusalem, and when was it ordered? There are several possibilities, but the decree that best fits the evidence was made by the Persian king Artaxerxes to Nehemiah on March 5 of 444 BC (Nehemiah 2:1–8). (In this article, a number of biblical dates are used, all of which have been under debate by scholars for hundreds of years. Harold Hoehner makes a strong case for each of the dates. For those details, please refer to Hoehner’s book Chronological Aspects of the Life of Christ.)
Before we can make some calculations, we need to know how Daniel’s civilization counted time—by a solar year or a lunar year. A solar year has 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds, or 365.2422 days. A lunar year has exactly 360 days: 12 months of 30 days. [A lunar year has 12 rotation periods, or lunar months, which equal 354.367 Earth days (12 x 29.53059). However, ancient peoples rounded off the lunar month to 30 days. Thus, their lunar year would equal 360 days (30 days x 12).] Since the lunar year was commonly used in ancient biblical times, it makes the most sense to use the lunar year in calculations.
We must also decide how to define the arrival of the Messiah. Do we use Jesus’s birthdate, the date he began his ministry, the date of his crucifixion, or some other date? The date that many scholars have accepted as the time of the Messiah’s arrival is Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem. The reason for choosing this date is that this is when Jesus publicly declared that he was the Messiah. Before then, he told only select people, like his disciples, and he often reminded them to keep his identity secret. History chronologists have estimated that Jesus’s triumphal entry fell on Monday, March 30, AD 33.
Calculating Gabriel’s Formula
Now we’re ready to do some math to determine if Gabriel did in fact predict Jesus’s arrival. We’ll start by determining how many days are in 483 lunar years: 360 x 483 = 173,880 days. Next, we’ll convert those days back into solar years: 173,880 ÷ 365.2422 = 476.068 years. After converting the decimal part (0.068) to days (0.068 x 365.2422 = 24.8 days), the time prophesized for the Messiah to arrive comes out to be 476 years and 25 days.
Adding this number to March 5, 444 BC—the date on which the decree to rebuild Jerusalem was issued—brings us to March 30, AD 33, the very day of the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. Is this match not remarkable? The remarkable accuracy of the predictions in the prophecy in Daniel [assuming the estimates are correctly interpreted and accurate] supports the truth of the prophecy, which in turn builds confidence in the authority and reliability of the Bible.
If you want to give life to YESHUA HAMASHIACH / ( that’s JESUS CHRIST/MESSIAH in Hebrew here is how to if you want to rededicate your life or just accept HIM as your LORD GOD and ) as the scriptures says in Romans 10:9 [Amplified Bible, Classic Edition]
Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Freedom for everyone in Syria, for everything they do! Different religions and celebrations, one nation helding all of em.
Merry Christmas 🎁🎁 Syria Jesus Christ bless you from india
God bless Syria ❤🎉❤
Make Syria a KINGDOM! STABILITY, CONTINUITY, UNITY!
May peace prevail 🙏
Christian and Muslim should live peacefully together to make peace for they country
Syrian need to help each other to build their country and become
One of great country in middle east. If the leader has vision they will prosper
Hope your country becomes a beautiful and peaceful nation.
Merry Christmas from Iran 🇮🇷 which I Muslim
u are muslim cant say that
Just leave Syria alone
@ umm why
@@sophiaadamiyatihave9873 because you evil country let Arab people away from you
Iam happy to be peace Syrian ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
syria christian and muslim respect each other
Merry christmas syria GOD BLESS U
Always before horrible government gained their foothold, there is this period of wistful thinking, people become complacent, and leave it to sly, clever militant groups to take control over everything. Happened in Russia, etc.
Congratulations welcome back beautiful Syrian Nice peaceful country 2025❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉 million vloggers
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Only Jesus can bring peace
Congrats to our Syrian, brothers and Sisters…Merry Christmas…God bless us❤❤❤
Beautiful people of Syria 🇸🇾 ♥️
May Jesus bless your country Syria
Greetings FROM GREECE to our SYRIAN BROTHERS!!!!
God Bless syrians.
Syrians are beautiful people..Merry Christmas syrians❤❤❤❤
Simbol kebagkitan dan kebebasan kemerdekaan hidup sebagai manusia normal
Ich hoffe den Christen geht es gut 👍, sah schon Christbaum brennen .
Merry Christmas
Merry Xmas from Indonesia 🫰🏽🎄🎉
Indonesia christian love syria❤❤❤
🙏😇🥰❤️🌹Merry Christmas all Dear 🎄🎄🎄
Merry Christmas from the USA ❤🙏✝️🎄🎁
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I believe when God blessess it exceeds beyond my expectation. I know my Father in heaven is a generous father who provides the needs of his children🥰
I just want to use this opportunity to say a very big thank’s to Kiana Danial and her Strategy, she changed my life. After enduring many struggles, I am now filled with gratitude for owning a new home. My family is happy, and everything is finally falling into place.
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Sure, the investment-advisor that guides me is.. MRS KIANA DANIAL
wow very nice syrian govt
Abdools are always a threat to christians all over the world.
Godbless to all christians in syria
God bless and Merry Christmas Syria! Greetings from Manila!🥰
Dont allow China to be involve in your politics.. They are……
How Beautiful is the descendants of Our Lord Jesus Christ 💖.
Merry christmas syria godbless ❤❤❤
В Сирии больше смвободы чем в России!!!!!!!!!! Какие молодцы Сирийцы,поверьте Сирия будет великой страной с наукой образованием и передовой медициной!!!!!!!!
Santa welcome to syria
Preparing for Jesus return
warning, Al Assad protected as well the large Christian minority in Syria, be accurate.
Love u from Scotland of the east
Ako Bog da, da svi sirijci žive u miru u blagostanju, bez obzira na religiju. Ove slike obećavaju, drago mi je zbog toga👍👍
Merry christmas, saludos desde Perú 🇵🇪
and then they burn christmas tree
I hope syria will recover and prosper again
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Oh my God Syria looks like a new country. Yall are a great nation and are gonna get even greater over time. We will be praying for you all. Merry Christmas to you all.
✨️Merry X’mas 🌲 May God bless ‘Syria’ from Fanatism
Merry Christmas from Ethioian all Syrians🙏🙏🙏➕➕➕
Finally syria is becoming Christian. Dont betray christ. Remember the golden rule. You have to obey christ to earn a pure heart. Bless the Christians in Syria. Hope it stays that way. And please. No more ak shots in the sky😊 they fall down. finding love is spiritual. Dont forget to pray, dont pray for your own cause. Pray for christ. God bless
To all syrians christians: Merry Christmas. And Merry Christmas to all future converts as well.
As a Syrian Christian, I can say that many in our community are feeling truly hopeful and safe for the first time in a long time with the new Syrian government in place and Assad gone. This Christmas season feels brighter, as we finally have a sense of security and freedom to celebrate our faith openly. It’s a blessing to see our communities rebuilding after so much loss and hardship. Let’s continue praying for a peaceful and prosperous future for all Syrians. 🙏✨
They even put up Santa Claus, God the Syrian Christians
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God bless all of you
So sad 💔
CONGRATULATIONS MUSLIM BROTHER AND CHRISTIAN SYRIAN
Merry Xmas & god bless you all for the new year 💯❤ from Australia….
Merry Christmas 🎄
Bless Syria for having freedom and rid of his dictator!!!
Is Christianity growing there?
Merry christmas as a muslim ❤
All thanks to gods chosen people 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🙏
Good for you guys! Good cultures must be preserve
God Bless Mary Christmas Brothers and Sisters people of Syria 🇸🇾 🙏
They just set on fire xmas tree after you posted it but nice pripganda
May the joy and peace of Jesus Christ of Nazareth be upon Syria People and government till the end of time