{"id":17747,"date":"2012-05-18T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T04:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17747"},"modified":"2012-05-14T23:22:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T02:22:25","slug":"us-chaplains-help-south-sudanese-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/us-chaplains-help-south-sudanese-military\/","title":{"rendered":"US Chaplains Help South Sudanese Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Africa Command chaplains recently traveled to newly independent South Sudan to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africom.mil\/getArticle.asp?art=7812\">meet their counterparts in the Sudan People&#8217;s Liberation Army<\/a>.\u00a0 They have an interesting patch:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17748\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/chappatch-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/chappatch-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/chappatch-1024x738.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The patch bears a large cross and\u00a0reads <!--more-->&#8220;Maybe God has chosen you for such a time as this,&#8221; which is a reference to Esther 4:14.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The SPLA chaplains are unusual among militaries. No formal chaplain corps exists, yet clergy in South Sudan have been moved on their own to fill the special role of military chaplains&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>South Sudan is a predominantly Christian country, which also played into the move for independence from the primarily Sunni Muslim north.\u00a0 The two Sudans may yet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/11\/world\/africa\/two-sudans-brace-for-a-war-both-thought-was-over.html\">end up at war<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Africa Command chaplains recently traveled to newly independent South Sudan to meet their counterparts in the Sudan People&#8217;s Liberation Army.\u00a0 They have an interesting patch: The patch bears a large cross and\u00a0reads<\/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":[2038,5284,2,3266],"class_list":["post-17747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-africa","tag-chaplain","tag-military","tag-sudan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17747","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=17747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}