RELIGIOUS MINISTERS TO SERVE IN MILITARY BASES
PanARMENIAN.Net
September 22, 2011 – 20:56 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – Military priests joined the ranks of the Russian
military bases in Armenia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and the Black
Sea Fleet.
They will be appointed to service as assistants to commanders, to
work with believer servicemen, Interfax quotes Lieutenant Colonel
Igor Gorbul, head of the press service of the Southern Military Region
(SMR) as saying.
“Military priests in military units will settle spiritual, moral
issues and keep order and discipline,” Gorbul said.
It is noteworthy, that on September 21 in the military parade in
Yerevan on the occasion of the Armenia’s independence 20th priests
ministering at the Armenian army marched in a separate column.
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