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Monday, September 5, 2011

Pregnant Women Barred From Christian Pilgrimage!

AHEAD of this year's pilgrimage, Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission,NCPC, Mr. Kennedy Opara, said pregnant women would not be allowed to participate in the exercise.

Speaking with newsmen, weekend, Opara said: "All married women are subjected to pregnancy test and as soon as you are tested positive, you are sent back."

On the security crisis at the West Bank, he said adequate security had been made.

He said: "We have a security monitoring committee that is working with the Nigeria Immigration Service and National Drug Law Enforcement Agency and other security agency that matters.

"We don't just give people form to fill and accept them.  We conduct a screening.  It is at this screening that we decide who will go or not go

"We may also want to know how religious you are and your appearance. These are the parametres we use to determine whether you will be a good ambassador of the country and if you are going purely for religious exercise.  In fact we try to disabuse people's minds from tourism"

 "We have also finished this year's screening in all the 36 states of the federation for intending pilgrim so as to ensure that, only true Christians and good ambassadors participate," he added.


Source: Vanguard

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