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Amid calls to renounce violence .. Yezidis celebrate fasting
On: Sat 12/17/2011 11:12
Baghdad / long
celebrated followers of the Yazidi sect in Dahuk province yesterday a long fast (Rosen Iza) the center of religious rituals and mutual visits, and calls for the consolidation of ties and renounce violence.
The researcher said Yezidi chemo Qassem said in an interview told Alsumaria News that the "Holiday fasting Rosen Iza any fasting, God is one of the Home holidays and sacred to the followers of the Yezidi religion, "
He pointed out that "the Yezidis fast three days in a row on the fourth day celebrating the arrival of Eid celebration, which begins to turn to nature as the long day and shorten the night, as it reflects the beginning of a new cycle begins and where the cereal plants to develop according to the Yezidi beliefs." Qassem added that "the followers of the Yezidi religion, and several religious holidays celebrated by the social recognition of the nature and existence," adding that "the large number of festivals show that the Yazidis have the heritage of humanity and spiritually significant." And celebrated members of the community Yazidi seven Birthdays every year is, Srsal, and Rosen, Iza, and substantial, and clear, Haven, and clear Zstan, and Pellndh, and Korban, and Khader Elias, The number of days of celebration by one day and seven days. For his part, said the citizen Yezidi Risan Kjl, "The ceremony of Eid took place well and many areas of the county unlike previous years," noting that "there is post marked by the followers of religions, Christian and Muslim to offer congratulations to the Yazidis on the occasion of Eid." In turn, said Azad Hassan, said that "recent events in the province has raised some concerns that lead to the creation of problems between the components of the region," adding that "the control of the security services in the areas where Christians and Yazidis and the establishment of security dispelled those fears."
Hassan stressed that "the working parties on the seriousness of the non-recurrence of such acts as it affects all the components of the region ", calling for government agencies, clerics and intellectuals to" work to strengthen relations between the components of religious and non-violence. "
The Yazidi are the remains of the religion of oriental old still retains some traditions and beliefs dating back to the peoples of the Valley entrenched in ancient Mesopotamia. The Yazidi renewed by Sheikh Adi bin passengers in the ninth century AD, is a missionary religion believes in the existence of God and lead rituals in the Kurdish language. The number of adherents of the Yazidi in Iraq to more than half a million lives, mostly in the areas of the provinces of Nineveh, Dohuk, Xnjar, and Sheikhan, and Tall Afar, and Ba, and Semel, and Zakho, in addition to the presence of some 20 thousand Yazidi migrated from the country since the beginning of the nineties to Europe, based were predominantly in Germany and Sweden, is a temple to Walsh, who is located in the area of Sheikhan in the province of Nineveh, the religious center sacred to followers of this religion.
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