Foreign experience in pastoral care military personnel and the possibilities for using it for Ukraine
Keywords:
military chaplain, chaplain service in the Armed Forces of the country, the legal status of the military chaplain, functional duties of the military chaplainAbstract
Today, the practice of the provision of pastoral care to military personnel is actively developing in Ukraine. However, its legal regulation is not ensured at the appropriate level, which is caused by rather signifi cant gaps and other shortcomings of the legislation of Ukraine in this sphere. Many democratic rule-of-law states in the world already have considerable positive experience in the legal regulation and functioning of the military chaplaincy institute. Studying it is of considerable scientifi c value for domestic legal science and provides possibilities of applying it in an adapted form in Ukraine. The article examines the foreign experience of the legal regulation of functioning of the military chaplaincy institute on the basis of concordats and legislation on freedom of religion in terms of legal status and functional purpose of military chaplains, as well as the implementation of religious rights of the military personnel. An analysis of the legal nature and legal status of military chaplains in foreign countries suggests that the military chaplaincy institute has fi rmly and long ago entered the habitual life of military units in the vast majority of states of the world. In some countries, the status of a military chaplain is regulated very clearly and in detail in numerous regulations (for example, in the United Kingdom, Hungary, Spain and Canada), while in other states there are gaps in the law, but the status is somehow regulated by by-laws or deals (in particular, in Norway). Generalization of foreign experience in the legal regulation of status and functions of military chaplains revealed a complex topology and heterogeneity in the regulation of legal status (from the detailed description to the absence of norms in basic legal acts), legislative consolidation of functional load, organization and functioning of military chaplains, framing their activities in the armed forces of foreign states.
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