The Congregation for Bishops, the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development co-organized, from 29-31 October, the 5th International Course for the Formation of Catholic Military Chaplains to International Humanitarian Law.
The course, on the theme "The Deprivation of Liberty in the Context of Armed Conflicts. The Mission of Military Chaplains" was held in Rome at the Auditorium of the Patristic Intitute Augustinianum and was celebrated in the context of the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949.
The Holy Father Francis received the participants in an Audience on October 31.
