Canadian military bans prayer at public events, including Remembrance Day

Canada's defence minister has confirmed that this year's Remembrance Day services by the armed forces will include no prayer, after a July directive barred references to God at public military events. An anonymous chaplain told LifeSite that the policy, which still permits Indigenous practices with spiritual elements, replaces monotheistic prayer with secular reflection, and that morale is low. The account, from a single source, shows institutional pressure pushing explicit faith out of public life while a pluralist spirituality is accommodated, a pattern relevant to Paul's warning of those who hold a form of godliness while denying its power.