{"id":495642,"date":"2025-12-24T14:56:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/president-abinader-and-first-lady-call-for-a-christmas-without-ostentation-and-focused-on-love\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T14:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:56:40","slug":"president-abinader-and-first-lady-call-for-a-christmas-without-ostentation-and-focused-on-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/president-abinader-and-first-lady-call-for-a-christmas-without-ostentation-and-focused-on-love\/","title":{"rendered":"President Abinader and First Lady call for a Christmas “without ostentation” and focused on love"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo.\u2013 <\/strong>The president Luis Abinader<\/a><\/strong> and the first lady Raquel Arbaje<\/strong> released this Wednesday a message<\/a> of Christmas in which they urged the Dominican people to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas, highlighting unity, solidarity, humility and faith as fundamental pillars for the strengthening of the nation.\n\nIn his speech, the president pointed out that Christmas is a time to reaffirm the values learned at home,<\/strong> such as respect, honesty, and humility, remembering that the birth of Jesus occurred in simplicity, without ostentation or grandeur.\n\nAbinader warned that the excessive love of wealth can distance society from the paths of justice<\/strong>, and stressed that from humility was born the greatest hope of humanity.\n\nFor her part, First Lady Raquel Arbaje<\/strong> expressed that this time invites us to look at ourselves with sincerity, learn, correct, and reconnect with the best in each person and as a nation. She indicated that she offers her message not only as the president’s life partner, but as an ally in the cause of serving and positively transforming the country.\n\n\n
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“Happiness doesn’t come from having, but from loving; not from excess, but from the peace that dwells in the heart,” he expressed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe Head of State also spoke as a believing Dominican, inviting citizens to share love within the family, the embrace of true friends, and the faith that sustains in difficult times.\n\n\n

You may be interested in: <\/strong>Zelensky congratulates Ukrainians on their fourth Christmas at war and asks for the fulfillment of the wish for peace<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nBoth agreed in wishing that this Christmas renews hope in every Dominican family, strengthens the bonds of love and fills homes with peace and blessings.\n\nThe message concluded with an invocation for divine protection for the country and a greeting of good wishes: \u201cMay God bless the Dominican Republic. Merry Christmas and a New Year full of hopes!\u201d. ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo.\u2013 The president Luis Abinader and the first lady Raquel Arbaje released this Wednesday a message of Christmas in which they urged the Dominican people to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas, highlighting unity, solidarity, humility and faith as fundamental pillars for the strengthening of the nation. In his speech, the president pointed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":495643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[37853,40543,42958,40374,2577],"class_list":["post-495642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-christmas","tag-first-lady","tag-message","tag-president-luis-abinader","tag-raquel-arbaje"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-24We","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Copia-de-Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-2025-12-24T144944.765.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Copia-de-Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-2025-12-24T144944.765.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}