Religious ministers to serve in military bases

Religious ministers to serve in military bases

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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