Pentagon
If budgets are moral documents, what does the US budget say about ours?
By Bridget Moix — May 13, 2022
(RNS) — Why is destroying our enemies a higher priority than feeding, clothing and teaching children?
Sailors, Marines seek religious accommodation to wear beards
By Joseph Hammond — October 1, 2021
(RNS) — One Orthodox Jewish sailor and three Muslim sailors joined in a lawsuit alleging the Navy’s beard policy amounts to a violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
In recognizing multiple faiths, the US military moves beyond its shameful past
By Yonat Shimron — June 2, 2017
(RNS) For many years, there were only three kinds of religious 'toothpaste' in the military: Judaism, Catholicism and Protestantism.
Chaplain violated Army rule in promoting Christian book
By Tom Vanden Brook — June 12, 2015
WASHINGTON — An active-duty Army chaplain has published a book titled "Jesus Was an Airborne Ranger" and appeared in a video in uniform to promote it, raising questions about the service endorsing Christianity as the Pentagon wages wars in Muslim countries.
Pentagon: Airstrike kills terror leader in Somalia
By Jim Michaels — September 5, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) The leader, Ahmed Abdi Godane, was targeted Monday (Sept. 1) in an airstrike that hit a vehicle and compound in a militant stronghold south of the capital, Mogadishu.
Top brass say they’re not aware of bias against military chaplains
By Adelle M. Banks — January 29, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) Pentagon officials told members of Congress at a Capitol Hill hearing Wednesday that they are unaware of any pattern of religious discrimination in the chaplain corps.
Sikhs say Pentagon rules on religious attire don’t go far enough
By Adelle M. Banks — January 23, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) “They’ve learned to live with the repeal of DADT (Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell) and so I think they can get along very well with yarmulkes and beards,” said Rabbi Sanford Dresin, director of military programs for the Florida-based Aleph Institute.
Pentagon refutes reports of anti-Christian policies
By David Gibson — May 2, 2013
(RNS) Christian conservatives have grown increasingly alarmed over reports that the Pentagon has adopted new policies aimed at disciplining or even court-martialing those who share their faith. But the Department of Defense on Thursday said evangelization is still permitted.
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