Changing focus on Military Chaplaincy: Religious-Spiritual Counseling and Care in Ukraine

Abstract

Two years since the beginning of the armed conflict in the Eastern Ukraine the institution of Military Chaplaincy has radically changed. During that period of social turmoil, not only the need in spiritual help arose, but also in spiritual leaders on the front line. The phenomenon of religious volunteering has become widespread. For Ukrainian society the Religious-Spiritual Counseling and Care - were no longer empty words.