US Army chaplain in Afghanistan: “I pray that you would give them the ability to exterminate the enemy and to accomplish the task that they’re been sent forth by God and country to do. In Christ’s name I pray. Amen.”

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MRFF Weekly Watch , Dec. 12, 2008

Shocking video of Evangelical Christian missionaries embedded with American combat troops in Afghanistan

Missionaries shown distributingNew Testament in Arabic to Afghani civilians

“God’s Soldiers”

“Hey, this is God. Come to Bible study”
- Chaplain Capt. Popov, illegally promoting evangelical Christianity in Discovery’s Military Channel documentary

Also featured: Popov blessing a group of soldiers about to go out on a patrol: “I pray that you would give them the ability to exterminate the enemy and to accomplish the task that they’re been sent forth by God and country to do. In Christ’s name I pray. Amen.”

Charles Marsh, God and country, The Boston Globe, July 8, 2007

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Marsh, Evangelicals against the Iraq war, The Boston Globe, July 8, 2007

Lagrange, Les combattants de la « mort certaine ». Les sens du sacrifice à l’horizon de la Grande Guerre, Cultures & Conflits, 2006

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Cultures & Conflits : Les combattants de la « mort certaine ». Les sens du sacrifice à l’horizon de la Grande Guerre
Les combattants de la « mort certaine ». Les sens du sacrifice à l’horizon de la Grande Guerre
Cultures & Conflits n°63 (automne 2006) pp. 63-81
François Lagrange