Chapels and prayer rooms to be opened in all the unites of the North Caucasus frontier troops

Bishop Feofan of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz and the Chief of the North Caucasus Frontier Service, Lieutenant-General Anatoly Zabrodin, have signed a cooperation agreement.

‘The morale of the staff is no less important than its logistical support’, the general underlined during the signing ceremony that took place on November 26, 2005.

According to the press secretary of the Stavropol diocese, Yevgeny Bronsky, the agreement provides for a procedure of pastoral care for the frontier-guards. ‘Earlier our cooperation was sealed in an agreement concluded between the diocese and the North Caucasus Special Frontier Command in 1997. In the last years the structure of the frontier service has changed. This needed to be taken into account in a new agreement’, Mr. Bronsky noted underlining that the main reason for developing a new agreement was not so much the need to clarify the formal side of the matter as the need to take into account and use the accumulated expedience.

‘The new agreement sets a solid basis for implementing the rights of military believers and helps to humanize internal army relations’, he said.

The agreement provides for the construction of Orthodox chapels and opening of prayer rooms in all the units of the frontier service.

From Interfax news agency