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| NAHCON Chairman Barr Abdullahi Mukhtar Muhammed with Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC), Reverend Ujah Tor Ujah On Board plane during the flags off ceremony of Easter pilgrimage to Jerusalem”. Photo: NAHCON |
As part of effort to build inter religious harmony, “The Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) joined his counterpart, Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC), Reverend Ujah Tor Ujah, in the flagging off ceremony of Easter pilgrimage to Jerusalem”.
The event took place in the GAT Wing of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
This was contained in a statement signed by Fatima Sanda Usara Head, Public Affairs Division of the commission.
The NAHCON chairman, Barrister Abdullahi Mukhtar Muhammad, charged the Christian pilgrims to be prayerful for the country while in the holy land.
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“He used the occasion to call on people of all faiths to coexist in peace and respect the sanctify human life” and pleads with “Nigerians not to give in to divisiveness of the devil whether via religion, tradition, political or other socio-cultural factors. He emphasized that for Nigeria to reach greater heights”,
“we must live together in harmony and cherish human life, as The Creator Himself considers human life the most sacred of His creations”.
Barr Abdullahi further disclosed that the “Nigerian Muslim pilgrims airlift for 2018 Hajj would commence in July. He therefore urged them to include in their prayers, a successful and smooth Hajj operations and “prayed for God’s protection of the Christian pilgrims”. (Hajj Reporters)
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