{"id":21842,"date":"2013-03-19T01:34:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T04:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=21842"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:42:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:42:54","slug":"a-catholic-priest-imam-and-anglican-walk-into-a-chapel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/19\/a-catholic-priest-imam-and-anglican-walk-into-a-chapel\/","title":{"rendered":"A Catholic Priest, Imam, and Anglican Walk into a Chapel&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A writer with Combined Joint Task Force &#8211; Horn of Africa had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/102920\/three-chaplains-walk-into-chapel\">witty beginning to his story<\/a> on the work of chaplains with their counterparts in the Kenyan military:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Kenyan catholic priest, Anglican priest, and Muslim imam walk into a chapel.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the start of a joke, but the beginning of a new partnership between Kenyan and U.S. military chaplains&#8230;Kenyan army Lt. Col. Alfayo Lelei, Kenyan air force Lt. Col. Lucas Gatobu and Kenyan army Maj. Mohamed Shukry [joined American chaplains] to discuss ways to better serve U.S. and Kenyan service members\u2019 spiritual needs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While chaplains protect the religious rights of those in the US military, some also serve &#8220;strategic&#8221; goals of the US military, engaging local religious leaders during conflicts and, as here, helping other nations in the development of their chaplaincies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A writer with Combined Joint Task Force &#8211; Horn of Africa had a witty beginning to his story on the work of chaplains with their counterparts in the Kenyan military: A Kenyan catholic priest, Anglican priest, and Muslim imam walk into a chapel. This is not the start of a joke, but the beginning of a new partnership between Kenyan [&#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":[2038,3915,5284,2466,903,44,2465,2467,2,3916],"class_list":["post-21842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-africa","tag-alfayo-lelei","tag-chaplain","tag-cjtf-hoa","tag-imam","tag-islam","tag-kenya","tag-lucas-gatobu","tag-military","tag-mohamed-shukry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21842","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=21842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}