{"id":51668,"date":"2018-12-29T13:54:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T12:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/vesti\/%category_vesti%\/iraq-officially-makes-christmas-day-a-national-holiday\/"},"modified":"2018-12-29T13:54:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T12:54:13","slug":"iraq-officially-makes-christmas-day-a-national-holiday","status":"publish","type":"vesti","link":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/reports\/world-news\/iraq-officially-makes-christmas-day-a-national-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq officially makes Christmas Day a national holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Christmas-National-Day-in-Irak-1.x71918.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51660 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Christmas-National-Day-in-Irak-1.x71918.jpg 780w, https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Christmas-National-Day-in-Irak-1.x71918-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Christmas-National-Day-in-Irak-1.x71918-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Iraqi Cabinet approved a law to mark Christmas Day, December 25, as an official holiday across the country &#8220;on the occasion of the birth of Jesus Christ,&#8221; according to a statement released by the Iraqi government.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IraqiGovt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@IraqiGovt<\/a> announces Christmas Day to be an official holiday across Iraq. Happy Christmas to our Christian citizens, all Iraqis and to all who are celebrating around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Government of Iraq &#8211; \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0643\u0648\u0645\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0627\u0642\u064a\u0629 (@IraqiGovt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IraqiGovt\/status\/1077213857586782208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The Cabinet voted on an amendment to the national holidays law in the country that Christmas Day is a holiday for all Iraqis, and not only for the Christian community, as it had been for decades.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201eHappy Christmas to our Christian citizens, all Iraqis and to all who are celebrating around the world,\u201c,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">the Iraqi government said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, there were about 1.4 million Christians in the country. However, their numbers have dwindled to roughly 300,000 after hundreds of thousands fled the country following violence and attacks by various armed groups over the years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/25\/world\/iraq-christmas-holiday\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/25\/world\/iraq-christmas-holiday\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More photos and videos on the official site of<\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/25\/world\/iraq-christmas-holiday\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #800000;\" rel=\"noopener\"> CNN<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":51661,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[1384],"category_vesti":[1133],"tags_vesti":[],"lokacii":[],"class_list":["post-51668","vesti","type-vesti","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bozik-en","category_vesti-world-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vesti\/51668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vesti"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/vesti"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vesti\/51668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51668"},{"taxonomy":"category_vesti","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_vesti?post=51668"},{"taxonomy":"tags_vesti","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags_vesti?post=51668"},{"taxonomy":"lokacii","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigorski.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lokacii?post=51668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}