Homs Governor visits Umm al-Zinar Church

Homs Governor visits Umm al-Zinar Church

From the visit of the Governor of Homs, Engineer Namir Makhlouf, and the Police Commander, Brigadier General Ahmed Al-Farhan, to Umm Al-Zinar Church in Al-Hamidiyah neighborhood, and the meeting with Patriarch Mar Ignatius Aphrem II, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, Supreme Head of the Syriac Orthodox Church in the world, and a visit to the shrine of the Holy Girdle of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which was inaugurated after the completion of restoration operations. On the occasion of the Feast of the Blessed Virgin.

It is mentioned that the sacred girdle dates back to the first century AD and is a great and important relic in the world