Tag: Pilgrimage
Israel/Iran war: Nigerian govt halts pilgrimage to Israel
NCPC, the statutory body responsible for coordinating Christian pilgrimages from Nigeria to Israel and other holy sites worldwide announced this…
Pilgrimage: Catholic faithful pray for end to Coronavirus
No fewer than 10,000 Catholic faithful, priests and religious on Saturday in Lagos prayed for peace, unity and end of…
Christian Board Starts Preparation For 2017 Pilgrimage
Nasarawa State Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board (NCPWB) on Wednesday says it has started preparation for the 2017 Christian pilgrimage to…
Commission to organise special pilgrimage for persons living with disabilities
Rev. Tor Uja, Executive Secretary, Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), said on Wednesday that the commission would begin a special…
35 Christians register for 2016 pilgrimage in Bauchi
Mr Daniel Shawulu, Executive Secretary, Bauchi State Christians Welfare Board, said at least 35 Christians from the state have registered…
Ambode ends sponsorship of pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Mecca
Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has banned age-long sponsorship of pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia and Israel by the…
2016 Hajj: Ondo pilgrims urged to engage in physical exercises
haj The Ondo State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board has advised intending for the 2016 Hajj from the state to engage…
Sustain agencies responsible for pilgrimages, Dogara tells govt
Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has called on government to support and sustain agencies responsible for pilgrimages to the…
2015 Pilgrimage: Pregnant women, others not eligible
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Ogun State Chairman of the Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board, CPWB, Archbishop Oludotun Ogunseye has stated that pregnant women…
Anambra suspends pilgrimage sponsorship
The Anambra Government says it currently lacks the financial resources to sponsor intending pilgrims from the state to the holy…
‘A Sinner in Mecca’ documents gay Muslim pilgrimage
New York (AFP) – The confession of a Pakistani murderer. Overzealous religious police. An Arab angered after his pregnant wife…
Buhari inaugurates hajj 2015 flight to Saudi Arabia
President Mohammadu Buhari on Sunday inaugurated Muslim pilgrims flight to Saudi Arabia for 2015. Buhari, represented by Gov. Nasir El-Rufai…
Buhari accepts voluntary offer of services by Muslim leaders at hajj
President Muhammadu Buhari has accepted the voluntary offer of services to 2015 Pilgrims to Saudi Arabia by the leadership of…
Buhari to end FG sponsorship of pilgrimage
President Muhammadu Buhari is set to pull the plug on federal government sponsorship of pilgrims to Israel and Saudi Arabia,…
A New Approach To Holy Pilgrimage
Temidayo Oluwatosin/Abeokuta Pilgrimage to Jerusalem has always been for religious purpose, but in a bid to maximise the benefits of…
Stop sponsoring pilgrimages, Group tells Govt
A group, Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), on Friday urged the three tiers of government to wash their hands off the…
Jonathan leaves for pilgrimage to Israel
President Goodluck Jonathan will on Friday depart Lagos on a brief pilgrimage to Israel, his office said in a statement…
Pilgrimage: Nigeria, Israel assure of safety, security
The Federal Government and its Israeli counterpart on Sunday assured this year’s intending ‘Family Pilgrims’ to Israel of their safety…
Ebola Virus Lands In Saudi Arabia, Nigerian Pilgrims Face Ban
Saudi Arabia is testing a man for suspected Ebola infection after he returned recently from a business trip to Sierra…
Pilgrims’ Progress
By Ademola Adegbamigbe President Goodluck Jonathan recently visited Israel. It was a mission that combined promotion of bilateral relations between…
Nigeria, Israel sign BASA but Oduah absent
Nigeria and Israel have signed the Bilateral Air Services Agreement(BASA), in Jerusalem, but curiously without the loud presence of aviation…
Jonathan leaves for pilgrimage Wednesday
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan will late Wednesday embark on a pilgrimage to Israel, according to a statement by his special…
Muslim pilgrims complete hajj ritual by stoning the devil
Hundreds of thousands of Muslims converged on Mina valley in Saudi Arabia Tuesday to join a symbolic stoning of the…
25,000 Pilgrims Airlifted To Saudi Arabia
Max Air said it had transported 25,000 intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia so far. Its spokesman, Alhaji Ibrahim Dahiru, said…
Bayelsa mulls stopping sponsorship of pilgrims
Governor of the oil-rich Nigerian state of Bayelsa on Friday said that his government would gradually begin to withdraw its…
Lagos Bars Pregnant Women, Children, Others From Pilgrimage
The Lagos State Government has barred pregnant women, aged people, children, people with terminal diseases like cancer, stroke and others…
No Hajj For Previous Pilgrims
The Lagos State Government has barred all Lagosians who have gone on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia before from embarking on…
2013 Hajj: Lagos To Allocate 80% Slot To Fresh Pilgrims
The Lagos State Government says it will allocate 80 percent of the slots given to the state to intending pilgrims…
Nigerian Pilgrims Visit Jesus’ Birth Place
Nigerian Christians currently on pilgrimage in Israel on Sunday in Bethlehem visited the Church of Nativity built on the manger…
Man taunts Polish ‘miracle’ Virgin Mary icon
Polish police detained a 58-year-old man on Sunday after he threw an object at the country’s Black Madonna of Czestochowa,…