{"id":10865,"date":"2013-03-15T16:34:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T15:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=10865"},"modified":"2013-03-15T16:34:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T15:34:01","slug":"senate-president-to-lead-nigerias-delegation-to-inauguration-of-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/senate-president-to-lead-nigerias-delegation-to-inauguration-of-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate President To Lead Nigeria\u2019s Delegation To Inauguration Of Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Goodluck Jonathan has approved that Nigeria be represented by a Federal Government delegation headed by the Senate President, Senator David Mark\u00a0 at the formal installation of Pope Francis on Tuesday, March 19, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Other members of the delegation are the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, the Minister of State (Foreign Affairs), Prof. Viola Onwuliri and the President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation also includes the Chaplain of the Presidential Villa Chapel, Venerable Obioma Onwuzurumba and the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission, Mr. John Kennedy Opara.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to attending the new Pope\u2019s inauguration mass at the Vatican City, the delegation will also convey a congratulatory letter from President Jonathan to Pope Francis who was elected by the College of Cardinals on Wednesday, March 13, to succeed Pope Benedict XVI.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Goodluck Jonathan has approved that Nigeria be represented by a Federal Government delegation headed by the Senate President, Senator David Mark\u00a0 at the formal installation of Pope Francis on&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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