{"id":24193,"date":"2013-07-19T01:56:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T04:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=24193"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:12:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:12:48","slug":"us-army-chaplain-ministers-to-afghan-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/19\/us-army-chaplain-ministers-to-afghan-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army Chaplain Ministers to Afghan Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A chaplain deployed to Afghanistan has taken it upon himself to go above and beyond: he not only ministers to US and NATO troops, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/army\/army-chaplain-finds-new-role-in-ministering-to-afghan-troops-1.230761\">also local Afghan troops<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[US Army Chaplain (Maj)] Dawud Agbere is the only active-duty Muslim U.S. Army chaplain in Afghanistan and one of just four in the Army. As such, he&#8217;s in high demand for holding services, counseling U.S. and NATO soldiers &#8211; Muslim and others &#8211; and overseeing chaplains in smaller units. But in the last few weeks, Agbere has created a new role for himself: a Muslim ambassador from NATO forces to the enlisted soldiers of the Afghan National Army.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The impact the chaplain can have on the local troops may be significant; Agbere&#8217;s commander even went so far as to call him their &#8220;secret weapon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article is an interesting read.\u00a0 It also makes you wonder what the reaction would be if a Christian or Jewish<em> <\/em>chaplain similarly spoke with Afghan soldiers about <em>his<\/em> faith.<\/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 chaplain deployed to Afghanistan has taken it upon himself to go above and beyond: he not only ministers to US and NATO troops, but also local Afghan troops: [US Army Chaplain (Maj)] Dawud Agbere is the only active-duty Muslim U.S. Army chaplain in Afghanistan and one of just four in the Army. As such, he&#8217;s in high demand for [&#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":[58,88,5284,96,44,39,2,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-24193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-afghanistan","tag-army","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-islam","tag-jewish","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24193","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=24193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}