{"id":244532,"date":"2025-11-25T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=244532"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:57:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:57:27","slug":"christmas-starts-with-tree-lighting-event-at-the-presidential-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/11\/25\/christmas-starts-with-tree-lighting-event-at-the-presidential-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas starts with tree lighting event at the Presidential Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Encendido-del-Arbol-2025-Diario-Libre-1024x671.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-244582\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Encendido-del-Arbol-2025-Diario-Libre-1024x671.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Encendido-del-Arbol-2025-Diario-Libre-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Encendido-del-Arbol-2025-Diario-Libre-768x503.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Encendido-del-Arbol-2025-Diario-Libre.png 1410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice President Raquel Pe\u00f1a and First Lady Raquel Arbaje led the Christmas tree-lighting ceremony at the Presidential Palace on Monday, 24 November 2025. Dozens of children and employees from the government house and their families joined the event that began with the blessing of Father Kelvis Acevedo of the San Rafael Arc\u00e1ngel Chapel at the Presidential Palace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First Lady Raquel Arbaje and Vice President Raquel Pe\u00f1a shared a message focused on the importance of family unity and the hope inspired by this season. Both led the most anticipated moment of the event: the lighting of the tree and the garden lights, which officially signalled the start of the Christmas season at the seat of government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The atmosphere was filled with music with performances by the Dominican National Children&#8217;s Choir and the Koribe coral group, who delighted those present with carols and emblematic Christmas songs. The children enjoyed a space specially prepared for family fun with face painting, sweets, and iconic Christmas characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/presidencia.gob.do\/noticias\/palacio-nacional-enciende-su-arbol-y-da-inicio-la-navidad-con-acto-encabezado-por-la\">Presidency <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>25 November 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Raquel Pe\u00f1a and First Lady Raquel Arbaje led the Christmas tree-lighting ceremony at the Presidential Palace on Monday, 24 November 2025. Dozens of children and employees from the government house and their families joined the event that began with the blessing of Father Kelvis Acevedo of the San Rafael Arc\u00e1ngel Chapel at the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/11\/25\/christmas-starts-with-tree-lighting-event-at-the-presidential-palace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244532"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244583,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244532\/revisions\/244583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}