“Remember Nigeria in prayers,” Mark tells pilgrims travelling to Jerusalem

 

President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, yesterday, urged Nigerian pilgrims to this year’s pilgrimage in the Holy City of Israel to pray fervently for the country.

Mark made these charges while addressing the pilgrims from St. Mulumba’s Catholic Chaplaincy, Apo, Abuja, ahead of their airlift to the Holy City.

He warned the pilgrims that pilgrimage was not a tea party but a place for a total communion with God.

Mark also urged them to remember the nation in prayers so that God would end the insecurity and other challenges facing the country.

He enjoined them to be worthy ambassadors throughout their stay in Israel.

His words: “Your conduct would go a long way to show that Nigeria is not a country of bad eggs, or otherwise.

“Remember you are going to Israel on religious mission not fro jamboree or any commercial interest. You must put Nigeria first in all you do.

“Besides, you must go as a team and return as one group. Any attempt to abscond or behave in any manner unacceptable of a responsible citizen would not be tolerated.”