{"id":9325,"date":"2011-02-15T02:30:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T07:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=9325"},"modified":"2011-02-14T02:11:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T07:11:29","slug":"pelosi-calls-chaplains-one-of-best-tools-against-military-suicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/15\/pelosi-calls-chaplains-one-of-best-tools-against-military-suicides\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Calls Chaplains &#8220;One of Best Tools&#8221; Against Military Suicides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/64323\/pelosi-surprises-national-guard-chaplain-corps\">spoke to a group of 400 Chaplains and Chaplain Assistants<\/a> at the National Guard Bureau&#8217;s 2011 Joint Chaplain Conference\u00a0in Washington.\u00a0 She praised the Chaplains and lauded their roles in<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Chaplain Corps is one of the best tools to help fight the rise in military suicides, Pelosi said.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody has a better finger on the pulse of the well-being of the troops, whether it be strength through their faith or their morale, than each and every one of you,&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Congresswoman appeared to understand the role of Chaplains goes beyond their denominational religious endorsement, though others have criticized the military&#8217;s use of Chaplains in the counseling role.\u00a0 When Rep Pelosi was leaving,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Army Maj. Gen. Douglas Carver, chief of the U.S. Army\u2019s Chaplain Corps, led the room in prayer for Pelosi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/armychaplaincy.com\/2011\/01\/28\/pelosi-surprises-national-guard-chaplain-corps\/\">Army Chaplaincy blog<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi recently spoke to a group of 400 Chaplains and Chaplain Assistants at the National Guard Bureau&#8217;s 2011 Joint Chaplain Conference\u00a0in Washington.\u00a0 She praised the Chaplains and lauded their roles in The Chaplain Corps is one of the best tools to help fight the rise in military suicides, Pelosi said.\u00a0<\/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":[5284,667,1427,2,1426,11],"class_list":["post-9325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-chaplain","tag-douglas-carver","tag-joint-chaplain-conference","tag-military","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9325","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=9325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}