{"id":70063,"date":"2026-03-26T11:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/hegseth-prays-at-pentagon-service-for-overwhelming-violence-against-enemies\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:01:19","slug":"hegseth-prays-at-pentagon-service-for-overwhelming-violence-against-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/hegseth-prays-at-pentagon-service-for-overwhelming-violence-against-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth prays at Pentagon service for \u2018overwhelming violence\u2019 against enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remarks come after defense secretary calls for changes to military\u2019s chaplain corps, which had been \u2018watered down\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, prayed during a religious service at the Pentagon that there be \u201coverwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Christian worship service, held on Wednesday before military and civilian workers at the Pentagon, was Hegseth\u2019s first since the Iran war began, the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/26\/hegseth-prayer-violence-pentagon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remarks come after defense secretary calls for changes to military\u2019s chaplain corps, which had been \u2018watered down\u2019 The defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, prayed during a religious service at the Pentagon that there be \u201coverwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy\u201d. The Christian worship service, held on Wednesday before military and civilian workers &#8230; <a title=\"Hegseth prays at Pentagon service for \u2018overwhelming violence\u2019 against enemies\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/hegseth-prays-at-pentagon-service-for-overwhelming-violence-against-enemies\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hegseth prays at Pentagon service for \u2018overwhelming violence\u2019 against enemies\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}