{"id":13184,"date":"2011-09-15T01:30:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T06:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13184"},"modified":"2011-09-14T23:48:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T04:48:16","slug":"other-nations-learn-value-of-military-chaplaincy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/15\/other-nations-learn-value-of-military-chaplaincy\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Nations Learn Value of Military Chaplaincy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As noted <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/08\/chaplains-bring-messages-of-hope-religious-freedom\/\">previously<\/a>, US military Chaplains have been working with the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/10\/us-military-chaplains-meet-with-tanzanian-religious-leaders\/\">militaries of African nations<\/a> on a variety of issues, including highlighting religious freedom and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/76728\/cjtf-hoa-chaplain-and-imam-travel-uganda-talk-military-chaplaincy\">establishing Chaplaincies within their own militaries<\/a>.\u00a0 In <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/28\/chaplain-ministers-to-soldiers-locals-in-uganda\/\">Uganda<\/a> once again:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>US Navy Chaplain (Capt) Jon Cutler, a rabbi with CJTF-Horn of Africa, recently spent time with the Ugandan military on the topic of the Chaplaincy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Taking care of the spiritual, social and psychological aspects of a troop before, during and after they return from combat situations is <!--more-->part of a military chaplain\u2019s job, in addition to holding services on post,&#8221; [he said]. &#8220;I have met with muftis, imams, patriarchs and pastors who have all expressed great concern about the well-being of the soldiers in the UPDF.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The UPDF has been without a military chaplaincy program since 1986.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While some have suggested the US military abandon its Chaplaincy over Constitutional issues, other nations are seeing the value of the Chaplaincy in supporting the troops and the mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted previously, US military Chaplains have been working with the militaries of African nations on a variety of issues, including highlighting religious freedom and establishing Chaplaincies within their own militaries.\u00a0 In Uganda once again: US Navy Chaplain (Capt) Jon Cutler, a rabbi with CJTF-Horn of Africa, recently spent time with the Ugandan military on the topic of the Chaplaincy. [&#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":[2038,5284,39,1644,2,743,10,171,212],"class_list":["post-13184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-africa","tag-chaplain","tag-jewish","tag-jon-cutler","tag-military","tag-rabbi","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13184","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=13184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}