The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission, Rev. Yakubu Pam, at the departure briefing in Asaba, Delta State capital, warned the intending pilgrims against absconding.
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On what Iran called al-Quds Day, hundreds of thousands took part in the rallies in the capital Tehran, shouting anti-Israel slogans, according to state broadcaster IRIB.
Federation chairman Jibril Rajoub said in the letter that Jerusalem has been declared a divided city in a United Nations (UN) resolution.
Speaking on Tuesday at a meeting with members of the State Muslims Pilgrims Welfare Board, led by its Chairman, Alhaji Babatunde Onipede, in Ado-Ekiti, Egbeyem noted that both the federal and state governments had stopped sponsoring pilgrims on holy pilgrimages to save funds for development purposes.
Trump, speaking Friday to supporters, also declared that his decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was most appreciated by US Christians.
The resumption of prayers at Islam’s third-holiest site caps a sombre period for Jerusalem’s Muslims, who this year marked the holy fasting month of Ramadan and the Eid al-Fitri holiday without their usual daily visits to Al-Aqsa and the adjoining Dome of the Rock.
The authorities added that the priest should stop placing the wafers on worshippers’ tongues and to empty holy water fonts as precautions against the spread of the coronavirus.
Tokunbo Talabi, the Secretary to State Government, who spoke shortly before the departure at the Arcade Ground, Governor’s Office, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, charged the intending pilgrims to exhibit good behaviour that would aid personal covenant and relationship with God.
The world’s longest salt cave has been discovered in Israel’s Dead Sea region, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced on Thursday.
The information came on a day the Nigerian Government said there was nothing to worry about over the fresh threats issued by Kanu, allegedly from Jerusalem, that the South East will boycott the 2019 elections.
Kanu’s lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, revealed the day of the expected live broadcast on Saturday
The earring was discovered in the City of David National Park encircling the old city walls.
Celestine Ogugua, Head NCPC Media Unit, made this known in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Abuja.
Francis, speaking at the end of a summit of Christian religious leaders, also repeated his view that the “status quo” of the contested city of Jerusalem should be respected, and backed a two-state solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Twice world champions Argentina will play at Jerusalem’s Teddy Kollek Stadium on Saturday night in a World Cup warm-up match.
A Presidency source, who spoke to journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, said the Federal Government had written to a foreign medium, Al Jazeera, demanding a retraction of its story that listed Nigeria as one of the countries represented at the event.
Speaking to the media, senior aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Nabil Shaath, said Japan had pledged to support the Palestinian right to create an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital during the latest talks between the two countries
Johnson said: “I reiterated the UK’s commitment to supporting the Palestinian people and the two-state solution, the urgent need for renewed peace negotiations, and the UK’s clear and longstanding position on the status of Jerusalem.
The status of Jerusalem goes to the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The truth is that since the US Congress passed the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act, (which recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s “undivided capital”), US presidential candidates including Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Barrack Obama had made moving the US capital to Jerusalem a campaign issue. None delivered. Trump, who came to power on a wave of right wing nationalism, wanted to convince his base and the Jewish lobby that he is not all rhetoric.