{"id":12650,"date":"2011-08-19T02:13:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T07:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=12650"},"modified":"2011-08-19T02:13:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T07:13:36","slug":"us-military-buddhists-gather-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/19\/us-military-buddhists-gather-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"US Military Buddhists Gather in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/buddhistbalad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"320\" \/>While many understand that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/74746\/charismatic-chaplain-helps-troopers-keep-faith-afghanistan\">Christian US military chapel services<\/a> occur in locations throughout the world, some may not realize that a variety of minority faiths are represented as well.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement from Balad highlights the Buddhist services beginning this month.\u00a0 In other locations, &#8220;earth based,&#8221; Hindu, and even atheist services are held to support the needs of local servicemembers.<\/p>\n<p>The US military is made up of those of many faiths, and those faiths are practiced even within the military around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallfont\">Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/buddhistmilitarysangha.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/buddhist-services-at-joint-base-balad.html\">Buddhist Military Sangha<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/armychaplaincy.com\/charismatic-chaplain-helps-troopers-keep-the-faith-in-afghanistan\/\">ArmyChaplaincy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many understand that Christian US military chapel services occur in locations throughout the world, some may not realize that a variety of minority faiths are represented as well. This announcement from Balad highlights the Buddhist services beginning this month.\u00a0 In other locations, &#8220;earth based,&#8221; Hindu, and even atheist services are held to support the needs of local servicemembers. The [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20,2112,37,38,73,52,2,10,171,77],"class_list":["post-12650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-atheism","tag-balad","tag-buddhism","tag-chapel","tag-hindu","tag-iraq","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-wicca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}