{"id":71688,"date":"2025-07-30T05:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T05:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71688"},"modified":"2025-07-30T05:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T05:47:16","slug":"fct-pilgrims-board-screens-250-for-august-pilgrimage-to-israel-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/30\/fct-pilgrims-board-screens-250-for-august-pilgrimage-to-israel-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Pilgrims Board Screens 250 for August Pilgrimage to Israel, Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board (FCT-CPWB) has screened 250 intending pilgrims for its 2025 pilgrimage to Israel and Jordan, slated for August and September.<\/p>\n<p>Director of the Board, Gloria Dandam, disclosed this during a mop-up screening exercise held in Abuja in collaboration with the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our second screening. We already conducted the main one earlier. The aim is to ensure all intending pilgrims meet the necessary requirements,\u201d Dandam explained.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that 140 individuals, mostly private-sponsored, were screened in the first batch, while 110 were processed in the second round. Only those who meet all criteria will be invited to make payment.<\/p>\n<p>Dandam confirmed that a pre-visit to Israel showed that the selected sites are in peaceful and secure zones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe may be the second group to depart, so we must finalize and forward our list to the NCPC for visa issuance,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>She emphasized that shortlisted candidates will receive payment notifications, after which the Board will complete documentation and submit final names to the NCPC.<\/p>\n<p>The pilgrimage will be restricted to approved safe zones in both countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola The Federal Capital Territory Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board (FCT-CPWB) has screened 250 intending pilgrims for its 2025 pilgrimage to Israel and Jordan, slated for August and September. Director of the Board, Gloria Dandam, disclosed this during a mop-up screening exercise held in Abuja in collaboration with the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":71689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-71688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71690,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71688\/revisions\/71690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}