russian propaganda boasts about the active involvement of the russian orthodox church in the upbringing of children and adolescents, claiming it instills \u201ctraditional spiritual and moral values.\u201d<\/p>\n
In reality, under the kremlin\u2019s direction, the russian orthodox church is militarizing children and organizing \u201cyoung fighter courses\u201d for teenagers.<\/p>\n
Currently, there are more than 30 major orthodox military-patriotic camps for children and adolescents operating across russia. Instructors there, including \u201cspecial military operation veterans\u201d, teach children how to handle weapons and operate drones. Similar camps under the aegis of the roc also exist in belarus.<\/p>\n
At these camps, russia\u2019s war against Ukraine is portrayed as a \u201csacred duty.\u201d Through orthodox youth camps, the russian regime seeks to indoctrinate children and teenagers into a culture of war, raising them on an ideology of hatred.<\/p>\n
The Center has previously reported on the key aspects of the russian orthodox church\u2019s military engagement, its ties with russia\u2019s armed forces, and its role in legitimizing the kremlin\u2019s criminal actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
russian propaganda boasts about the active involvement of the russian orthodox church in the upbringing of children and adolescents, claiming it instills \u201ctraditional spiritual and moral values.\u201d In reality, under the kremlin\u2019s direction, the russian orthodox church is militarizing children and organizing \u201cyoung fighter courses\u201d for teenagers. Currently, there are more than 30 major orthodox…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":930,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}