{"id":20580,"date":"2023-07-30T17:01:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T17:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/president-bio-calls-on-pilgrims-to-serve-as-agents-of-peace"},"modified":"2023-07-30T17:21:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T17:21:19","slug":"president-bio-calls-on-pilgrims-to-serve-as-agents-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/president-bio-calls-on-pilgrims-to-serve-as-agents-of-peace","title":{"rendered":"President Bio Calls on Pilgrims to Serve as Agents of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Mohamed Aruna<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>President Julius Maada Bio has called on Pilgrims to serve as Agents of Peace and Unity in order to promote national cohesion in the country within their different communities.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"aswift_1_host\"><\/a>President Bio made this call on the 28th July, 2023 when he joined dozens of pilgrims for their first Jummah Prayers after they successfully performed this year\u2019s Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>He further went on to admonish the pilgrims to preach peace and unity and avoid hate speeches that had the tendency of dividing the country. He maintained that, he was pleased to receive his people on behalf of the government and people of Sierra Leone, adding that it was a blessing for them to join the pilgrims to observe their first Jummah prayers.He thanked the Vice President for supervising the taskforce and for ensuring a successful pilgrimage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\">Sierra-Leone<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Aruna Africa-Press &#8211; Sierra-Leone. President Julius Maada Bio has called on Pilgrims to serve as Agents of Peace and Unity in order to promote national cohesion in the country within their different communities. President Bio made this call on the 28th July, 2023 when he joined dozens of pilgrims for their first Jummah Prayers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":20579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[291,293,292],"class_list":["post-20580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>President Bio Calls on Pilgrims to Serve as Agents of Peace - Sierra Leone<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Julius Maada Bio has called on Pilgrims to serve as Agents of Peace and Unity in order to promote national coh ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/president-bio-calls-on-pilgrims-to-serve-as-agents-of-peace\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President Bio Calls on Pilgrims to Serve as Agents of Peace\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Julius Maada Bio has called on Pilgrims to serve as Agents of Peace and Unity in order to promote national coh ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/president-bio-calls-on-pilgrims-to-serve-as-agents-of-peace\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sierra Leone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-07-30T17:01:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-30T17:21:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2023\/07\/sm_1690725033.135337.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"628\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/president-bio-calls-on-pilgrims-to-serve-as-agents-of-peace#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/president-bio-calls-on-pilgrims-to-serve-as-agents-of-peace\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"President Bio Calls on Pilgrims to Serve as Agents of Peace\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-07-30T17:01:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-30T17:21:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/president-bio-calls-on-pilgrims-to-serve-as-agents-of-peace\"},\"wordCount\":165,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/president-bio-calls-on-pilgrims-to-serve-as-agents-of-peace#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2023\/07\/sm_1690725033.135337.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Sierra-Leone\",\"Sierra-Leone\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/president-bio-calls-on-pilgrims-to-serve-as-agents-of-peace#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/president-bio-calls-on-pilgrims-to-serve-as-agents-of-peace\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/president-bio-calls-on-pilgrims-to-serve-as-agents-of-peace\",\"name\":\"President Bio Calls on Pilgrims to Serve as Agents of Peace - 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