Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-6bf8c574d5-gr6zb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-02-21T21:18:24.983Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Article 36 - Prisoners who are ministers of religion

from Chapter V - Religious, Intellectual and Physical Activities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2021

Compiled by
International Committee of the Red Cross
Get access

Summary

Ministers of religion not attached to the armed forces in the capacityof religious personnel may be enlisted as combatants. When captured,they become prisoners of war, unlike retained religious personnelcovered by Article 35. Even so, their spiritual assistance may be neededby their fellow prisoners, and the Detaining Power must grant themfreedom to minister to their co-religionists. For this reason, Article36 extends the benefits and facilities enjoyed by religious personnelattached to the armed forces under Articles 33 and 35 to prisoners ofwar who are ministers of religion. In doing so, Article 36 aims toreinforce access of prisoners of war to spiritual assistance and tofurther guarantee their right to practise their religion set forth inArticle 34.

Type
Chapter
Information
Commentary on the Third Geneva Convention
Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
 , pp. 885 - 891
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Select bibliography

Debons, Delphine, L’assistance spirituelle aux prisonniers de guerre. Un aspect de l’action humanitaire durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Editions du Cerf, Paris, 2012.Google Scholar
Debons, Delphine, ‘“All things are Possible for Him Who Believes” (Mark 9:23): The Regulation of Religious Life in Prisoner of War Camps in the Second World War’, in Pathé, Anne-Marie and Théofilakis, Fabien (eds), Wartime Captivity in the Twentieth Century. Archives, Stories, Memories, Berghahn, Oxford, 2016, pp. 54–64.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hiebel, Jean-Luc, Assistance spirituelle et conflits armés: Droit humain, Henry Dunant Institute, Geneva, 1980.Google Scholar
Kumar, Nilendra, ‘Protection of Religious Personnel’, in Fleck, Dieter (ed.), The Handbook of International Humanitarian Law, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 413–424.Google Scholar
Levie, Howard S., Prisoners of War in International Armed Conflict, International Law Studies, U.S. Naval War College, Vol. 59, 1978, pp. 138−139.Google Scholar
Lunze, Stefan, The Protection of Religious Personnel in Armed Conflict, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2004, pp. 90−93. (2004a)Google Scholar
Lunze, Stefan, ‘Serving God and Caesar: Religious personnel and their protection in armed conflict’, International Review of the Red Cross, Vol. 86, No. 853, March 2004, pp. 69−90. (2004b)Google Scholar
McCoubrey, Hilaire, ‘The Protection of Creed and Opinion in the Laws of Armed Conflict’, Journal of Conflict and Security Law, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2010, pp. 135−155.Google Scholar
Millet-Devalle, Anne-Sophie, Religions et droit international humanitaire, Pedone, Paris, 2008.Google Scholar
Rothkamm, Jan, ‘Religious Freedom in Times of Conflict: An Overview of International Legislation and a Discussion of Recent Cases’, The Military Law and Law of War Review, Vol. 46, 2007, pp. 259−298.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vourkoutiotis, Vasilis, Prisoners of War and the German High Command: The British and American Experience, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2003, pp. 65−67.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×