{"id":60415,"date":"2021-09-03T10:49:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T07:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/df.news\/?p=60415"},"modified":"2021-09-03T10:49:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T07:49:13","slug":"defense-ministry-says-70-of-troops-ocu-believers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/2021\/09\/03\/defense-ministry-says-70-of-troops-ocu-believers\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense ministry says 70% of troops OCU believers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mil.gov.ua\/content\/files\/whitebook\/WB_2020_FINAL.pdf\">Defense<\/a> of Ukraine has published a White Paper offering data from military surveys, including that on servicemen\u2019s religious affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>The poll, dating back to 2020, shows the vast majority of respondents (79%) consider themselves religious people.<\/p>\n<p>The results also show 76% of respondents consider the work of Army chaplains to be a positive and necessary thing.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of respondents identify as members of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (70%). The share of those affiliated with other denominations was as follows: 10% ROCinU, 7% UGCC, 4% RCC, 2% Protestants, 2% Muslims, and 5% others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given their experience throughout 2014-2020, the work of military priests (chaplains) allowed to provide professional spiritual and moral care of Ukraine Army\u2019s servicemen in forming and maintaining their moral and psychological condition at a level needed to perform tasks assigned, and also to promote national and patriotic education,&#8221; noted the Ministry of Defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has published a White Paper offering data from military surveys, including that on servicemen\u2019s religious affiliation. The poll, dating back to 2020, shows the vast majority of respondents (79%) consider themselves religious people. The results also show 76% of respondents consider the work of Army chaplains to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5142,5146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-public"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/df.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/fpHLh8vXM5MYEyggH3ILEOYD8Or3kNx6AI05zsh6.jpeg?fit=620%2C413&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}