As one former military chaplain told me, pastors have to establish a personal relationship to the people that they care for.
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The job of a military chaplain serving in a war zone goes well beyond conducting religious rituals and offering spiritual counseling.
Is it really such a radical departure to have military chaplain practice their pastoral skills on virtual soldiers instead of real ones?
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The cardinal also said he pulled strings to try to win the priests' release, convincing a military chaplain who celebrated Mass for the then-head of the junta, Gen.
Alamoudi has a long public record that indicates why his instrumentality in founding and shepherding the U.S. Muslim military chaplain program unfortunately calls into question the integrity of the entire Muslim chaplaincy, and requires thorough investigation.
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As director of rabbinical services at the Institute of Southern Jewish Life in Jackson, Mississippi, Mr Klaven, a 31-year-old former military chaplain, presides over 133 such congregations throughout the south, from Odessa, Texas in the west to Brunswick, Georgia in the east, and north as far as Leesburg, Virginia.
He was one of the key figures in the Muslim community who helped begin the Islamic chaplain program in the military in the 1990s, government officials and Muslim activists said.
All chaplain candidates for the military and federal prison system must meet basic academic requirements, undergo a background check and then be endorsed by a group of that person's religion.
In a telephone interview, Chaplain Yee said he left the military to attend a traditional Islamic school in Damascus, Syria, where he spent four years studying Arabic and religion.
Another member of the military who also worked at Guantanamo -- Islamic chaplain and Army Capt.
Marie deYoung, a former Army chaplain, argues the problem is the military's policy of prosecuting only higher-ranking offenders.
From about 1993 to 1998, the Pentagon retained Alamoudi on an unpaid basis to nominate and to vet Muslim chaplain candidates for the U.S. military.
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The process for becoming a Muslim chaplain for any branch of the U.S. military, currently involves two separate phases.
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Rebuffed by Rome, Mr Kirchner stripped Bishop Baseotto of the state salary he received as chaplain to the army and thus, in theory, his right to enter military installations.
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