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{{Infobox Christian denomination |
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|name = The Salvation Army |
|name = The Salvation Army |
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|image = The Salvation Army.svg |
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|structure = [[Military rank]]–based [[Command hierarchy|chain of command]] |
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|structure = Hierarchical |
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|main_classification = [[Protestant]] |
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|scripture = [[Bible]] |
|scripture = [[Bible]] |
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|orientation = [[Holiness movement]] |
|orientation = [[Holiness movement]] |
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|leader_title = [[General of The Salvation Army|General]] |
|leader_title = [[General of The Salvation Army|General]] |
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|leader_name = [[Lyndon Buckingham]] |
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|associations=[[National Association of Evangelicals]] |
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|area = Worldwide |
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[[Wesleyan Holiness Connection]] |
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|headquarters = [[London]], {{postcode|EC|4}}<br/>United Kingdom |
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[[Christian Churches Together]]|area = Worldwide |
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|founder = [[William Booth|William]] and [[Catherine Booth]]<ref name="Methodist Reform Church"/> |
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|headquarters = [[International Headquarters of The Salvation Army|IHQ]], [[London]], {{postcode|EC|4V}}<br />United Kingdom |
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|founder = {{ubl|[[William Booth]]|[[Catherine Booth]]}}{{r|Salvationists|p=21}} |
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|founded_date = {{start date and age|1865|7|2|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/news/inr020714|title=The Salvation Army International – Founders' Day Celebrated as The Salvation Army Enters its 150th Year|work=salvationarmy.org|access-date=14 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402151051/http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/news/inr020714|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> |
|founded_date = {{start date and age|1865|7|2|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/news/inr020714|title=The Salvation Army International – Founders' Day Celebrated as The Salvation Army Enters its 150th Year|work=salvationarmy.org|access-date=14 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402151051/http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/news/inr020714|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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|founded_place = London |
|founded_place = London |
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|separated_from = [[Methodism]]<!--DO NOT CHANGE TO METHODIST REFORM CHURCH. The Salvation Army's founders were part of the Methodist Reform Church until its dissolution in 1857, but the Salvation Army itself broke from traditional Methodism in 1865--> |
|separated_from = [[Methodism]]<!--DO NOT CHANGE TO METHODIST REFORM CHURCH. The Salvation Army's founders were part of the Methodist Reform Church until its dissolution in 1857, but the Salvation Army itself broke from traditional Methodism in 1865-->{{r|Salvationists|p=21}} |
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|separations = [[ |
|separations = [[American Rescue Workers]] (1882)<br /> [[Volunteers of America]] (1896) |
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|congregations = 15,409<ref name="stats" /> |
|congregations = 15,409<ref name="stats" /> |
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|members = 1.65 million<ref name="stats" /> |
|members = 1.65 million<ref name="stats" /> |
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|ministers = 26,359<ref name="stats" /> |
|ministers = 26,359<ref name="stats" /> |
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|other_names = East London Christian Mission (formerly) |
|other_names = East London Christian Mission (formerly){{r|Salvationists|p=21}} |
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|website = {{URL|salvationarmy.org}} |
|website = {{URL|salvationarmy.org}} |
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{{The Salvation Army}} |
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'''The Salvation Army''' ('''TSA''') is a [[Protestantism|Protestant Christian]] church and an international [[charitable organisation]] headquartered in [[London]], [[England]]. It is aligned with the [[Wesleyan-Holiness movement]]. The organisation reports a worldwide membership of over 1.7{{Nbsp|1}}million,<ref name="stats">{{cite web | url = https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/statistics | title = Statistics | access-date = 29 March 2018 | publisher = The Salvation Army International | year = 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180314174058/https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/statistics | archive-date = 14 March 2018 | url-status = live }}</ref> consisting of soldiers, officers, and adherents who are collectively known as salvationists. Its founders sought to bring [[Salvation in Christianity|salvation]] to the poor, destitute, and hungry by meeting both their "physical and spiritual needs". It is present in 133 countries,<ref name="128 countries">{{cite web|title=The Salvation Army International - Statistics|url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/statistics|publisher=The Salvation Army|access-date=10 March 2021|date=10 March 2021|quote=The Salvation Army is officially at work in 133 countries.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624063944/http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/news/inr281016|archive-date=24 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> running [[charity shop]]s, operating [[homeless shelter|shelters]] for the [[homelessness|homeless]], and [[disaster relief]] and [[humanitarian aid]] to [[developing countries]]. |
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The [[Wesleyan theology|theology of the Salvation Army]] derives from [[Methodism]], although it differs in institution and practice; an example is that the Salvation Army does not observe [[sacrament]]s. As with other denominations in the Holiness Methodist tradition, the Salvation Army lays emphasis on the [[Born again#Methodism|New Birth]] (first work of grace) and [[entire sanctification]] (second work of grace).<ref name="Harvester1879">{{cite web |last1=Harvester |first1=Christian |title=Is it a Definite Work? |url=https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/sites/default/files/resources/2022-01/The%20Salvationist%2C%20September%201879%2C%20pp225-252.pdf |publisher=The Salvation Army |access-date=7 May 2024 |date=1 September 1879}}</ref><ref name="Ury2022">{{cite web |last1=Ury |first1=Bill |title=The Army’s Whole Gospel of Holiness |url=https://salarmycentral.org/blog/2022/02/07/the-armys-whole-gospel-of-holiness/ |access-date=7 May 2024 |language=English |date=7 February 2022}}</ref> A distinctive characteristic of the Salvation Army is its use of titles derived from [[military rank]]s, such as "[[lieutenant]]" or "[[Major (rank)|major]]". The Army's [[#Beliefs|doctrine]] is aligned with the [[Wesleyan theology|Wesleyan–Arminian]] tradition, particularly the [[holiness movement]]. The Army's purposes are "the advancement of the Christian religion... of education, the relief of poverty, and other charitable objects beneficial to society or the community of mankind as a whole".<ref name=Sallieanntheology>{{cite news|title=Salvation Army|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/subdivisions/salvationarmy_1.shtml|access-date=24 April 2011|newspaper=BBC|date=30 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100812043438/http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/subdivisions/salvationarmy_1.shtml|archive-date=12 August 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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'''The Salvation Army''' ('''TSA''') is a [[Christian denomination|Christian]] church and an international [[charitable organisation]]. The organisation reports a worldwide membership of over 1.7 million,<ref name="stats">{{cite web | url = https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/statistics | title = Statistics | accessdate = 29 March 2018 | publisher = The Salvation Army International | year = 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180314174058/https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/statistics | archive-date = 14 March 2018 | url-status = live }}</ref> consisting of soldiers, officers and adherents collectively known as Salvationists. Its founders sought to bring [[salvation]] to the poor, destitute, and hungry by meeting both their "physical and spiritual needs". It is present in 131 countries,<ref name="128 countries">{{cite web|title=The Salvation Army in Madagascar is Inaugurated in Joyful Ceremony|url=http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/news/inr281016|publisher=The Salvation Army|accessdate=12 March 2018|date=28 October 2016|quote=Madagascar became the 128th country in which the Salvation Army is currently serving, as work was officially inaugurated in the African island nation on 23 October 2016. Commissioner Joash Malabi, Territorial Commander of The Salvation Army's Zimbabwe Territory – which is overseeing the new work – conducted the opening ceremony in the town of Alakamisy.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624063944/http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/news/inr281016|archive-date=24 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> running [[charity shop]]s, operating [[homeless shelter|shelters]] for the [[homelessness|homeless]] and [[disaster relief]], and [[humanitarian aid]] to [[developing country|developing countries]]. |
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The Salvation Army was founded in 1865 as the "East London Christian Mission" in London by one-time Methodist preacher [[William Booth]] and his wife [[Catherine Booth|Catherine]]. It can trace its origins to [[the Blind Beggar]] Tavern. In 1878, Booth reorganised the mission, becoming its first [[General of The Salvation Army|general]] and introducing the military structure, which it has retained as a matter of tradition.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/lists/gb-2133-sa.htm |title=Report on the records of the Salvation Army |website=nationalarchives.gov.uk |access-date=11 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120522185719/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/lists/gb-2133-sa.htm |archive-date=22 May 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> The Salvation Army's highest priority is its Christian principles. {{As of|2023}} the international leader and [[chief executive officer]] (CEO) of The Salvation Army is General [[Lyndon Buckingham]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/thegeneral |title=GENERAL LYNDON BUCKINGHAM|access-date=10 July 2024 |publisher=The Salvation Army International }}</ref> |
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The [[theology]] of the Salvation Army is derived from that of [[Methodism]], although it is distinctive in institution and practice. A peculiarity of the Army is that it gives its clergy titles of [[military rank]]s, such as "lieutenant" or "major". It does not celebrate the rites of [[Baptism]] and [[Holy Communion]]. However, the Army's [[#Beliefs|doctrine]] is otherwise typical of [[holiness movement|holiness]] churches in the [[Wesleyan theology|Wesleyan–Arminian]] tradition. The Army's purposes are "the advancement of the Christian religion ... of education, the relief of poverty, and other charitable objects beneficial to society or the community of mankind as a whole".<ref name=Sallieanntheology>{{cite news|title=Salvation Army|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/subdivisions/salvationarmy_1.shtml|accessdate=24 April 2011|newspaper=BBC|date=30 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100812043438/http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/subdivisions/salvationarmy_1.shtml|archive-date=12 August 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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The Salvation Army is the largest non-government provider of social services in the United States and one of the largest in the world,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Salvation Army Overview |url=https://www.yu.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/SArmyAd_42022.pdf |website=yu.edu |publisher=Yeshiva University}}</ref> with expenditures including operating costs of US$3.6 billion in 2022, assisting more than 32 million people in the U.S. alone.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022 |title=Salvation Army |url=https://www.forbes.com/companies/salvation-army/?sh=145011d7cb57 |website=forbes.com}}</ref> In addition to funding feeding centres, homeless shelters, [[Drug rehabilitation|rehabilitation centres]], [[community centre]]s, and disaster relief, the organisation also establishes [[refugee camp]]s, especially among displaced people in Africa. In the [[United Kingdom]], the Salvation Army is no longer the largest non-governmental provider of social services; however, it still provides a significant service to people in need. The Salvation Army is the fourth largest charity in the [[United States]], with private donations in excess of US$2 billion in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The 100 Largest U.S. Charities |url=https://www.forbes.com/top-charities/list/ |access-date=2023-01-28 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref> It is a member of many national [[interdenominational]] groups, including the American organisation [[Christian Churches Together]].<ref>{{cite web |title=christianchurchestogether |url=http://christianchurchestogether.org/participant-churches-and-organizations |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180403173707/http://christianchurchestogether.org/participant-churches-and-organizations/ |archive-date=3 April 2018 |access-date=3 April 2018}}</ref> |
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The Army was founded in 1865 in London by one-time [[Methodist Circuit|Methodist circuit]]-preacher [[William Booth]] and his wife Catherine as the East London Christian Mission, and can trace its origins to the [[Blind Beggar]] tavern. In 1878, Booth reorganised the mission, becoming its first [[Generals of The Salvation Army|General]] and introducing the military structure which has been retained as a matter of tradition.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/lists/gb-2133-sa.htm |title=Report on the records of the Salvation Army |publisher=Nationalarchives.gov.uk |accessdate=11 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120522185719/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/lists/gb-2133-sa.htm |archive-date=22 May 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> Its highest priority is its Christian principles. The current international leader of The Salvation Army and chief executive officer [[Chief executive officer|(CEO)]] is General Brian Peddle, who was elected by the [[High Council of The Salvation Army]] on 3 August 2018.<ref>{{cite web|title=New leadership for The Salvation Army in the UK and Ireland {{!}} News Centre|url=http://news.salvationarmy.org.uk/new-leadership-salvation-army-uk-and-ireland|website=news.salvationarmy.org.uk|accessdate=20 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201041445/http://news.salvationarmy.org.uk/new-leadership-salvation-army-uk-and-ireland|archive-date=1 December 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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==Ministers== |
==Ministers== |
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The Salvation Army refers to its ministers as "officers". When they are acting in their official capacities, they can often be recognised by the colour-coded [[epaulette]]s on their white uniform dress shirts. The epaulettes have the letter "[[S]]" embroidered on them in white. Officer ranks include Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, Commissioner, and General. Promotion in rank from Lieutenant to Major depends primarily on years of service. |
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Officers are given Marching Orders to change ministries within the Salvation Army. Usually, officers are given new marching orders every two to five years and reassigned to different posts, sometimes moving great distances. |
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The Salvation Army refers to its ministers as "officers". When acting in their official duties, they can often be recognized by the colour-coded epaulettes on their white uniform dress shirts. The epaulettes have the letter S embroidered on them in white. Officers ranks include Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, Commissioner, and General. Promotion in rank up to the rank from Lieutenant to Major depends primarily on years of service. |
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The [[ordination of women]] is permitted in the Salvation Army. Salvation Army officers were previously allowed to marry only other officers (this rule varies in different countries); but this rule has been relaxed in recent years. Husbands and wives usually share the same rank and have the same or similar assignments. Such officer-couples are then assigned together to act as co-pastors and administer corps, Adult Rehabilitation Centers and such. |
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The Salvation Army permits the [[ordination of women]]. Salvation Army officers were previously allowed to marry only other officers (this rule varied in different countries); but this rule has been relaxed in recent years. Husbands and wives usually share the same rank and have the same or similar assignments. Such officer-couples are assigned together to act as co-[[pastor]]s and to administer corps, Adult Rehabilitation Centres, and such. |
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As of 2017 the organisation will not appoint homosexual people to posts as ministers, preferring individuals "whose values are consistent with the church's philosophy".<ref>{{cite web |last=Yang |first=Carter M. |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121498&page=3 |title=Page 3: White House Rejects Salvation Army Proposal – ABC News |publisher=ABC |location=USA |accessdate=11 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120061201/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121498&page=3 |archive-date=20 January 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> (See also {{section link||Criticism by LGBT activists}} section.) See also [[LGBT clergy in Christianity]]. |
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===Churches=== |
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The Army has churches throughout the world, known as [[Salvation Army corps]]. These serve as churches and community centres. Traditionally, many corps buildings are also called temples or citadels. |
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===Thrift stores and charity shops=== |
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[[File:Salvation Army Thrift Store, Santa Monica, CA.JPG|thumb |The Salvation Army Family Thrift Store, [[Santa Monica, California]] ]] |
[[File:Salvation Army Thrift Store, Santa Monica, CA.JPG|thumb |The Salvation Army Family Thrift Store, [[Santa Monica, California]] ]] |
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[[File:SalvationArmyThriftStoreRichmondHill.jpg|thumb|The Salvation Army Thrift Store, Richmond Hill, ON]] |
[[File:SalvationArmyThriftStoreRichmondHill.jpg|thumb|The Salvation Army Thrift Store, Richmond Hill, ON]] |
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[[File:Salvation Army, Eastfield.jpg|thumb|The Salvation Army, [[Eastfield, South Lanarkshire]], Scotland]] |
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The Salvation Army is well known for its network of [[thrift store]]s or charity shops, colloquially referred to as "the Sally Ann" in Canada, "Salvos Stores" in Australia, and "Sally's" in New Zealand, which raise money for its rehabilitation programs by selling donated used items such as clothing, housewares and toys. Clothing collected by Salvation Army stores that are not sold on location are often sold wholesale on the [[Global trade of secondhand clothing|global second hand clothing market]]. |
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The Salvation Army is well known for its network of [[thrift store]]s or charity shops—colloquially referred to as "the Sally Ann" in Canada and the United States, "Salvos Stores" in Australia, and "Sally's" in New Zealand—which raise money for its rehabilitation programs by selling donated used items such as clothing, housewares, and toys. Clothing collected by Salvation Army stores that is not sold on location is often sold wholesale on the [[Global trade of secondhand clothing|global secondhand clothing market]]. |
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[[File:Salvos Mordi store.jpg|thumb|Salvation Army store in Victoria, Australia]] |
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The Salvation Army's fundraising shops in the United Kingdom participate in the UK government's [[Work Programme]], a [[Workfare in the United Kingdom|workfare]] programme where benefit claimants must work for no compensation for 20 to 40 hours per week over periods that can be as long as 6 months.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boycottworkfare.org/?page_id=16|title=Workfare providers|date=31 March 2011|work=boycottworkfare.org|access-date=14 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402110331/http://www.boycottworkfare.org/?page_id=16|archive-date=2 April 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christiantoday.com/article/salvation.army.defends.unpaid.work.placements.as.protesters.picket.headquarters/53418.htm|title=Salvation Army defends unpaid work placements as protesters picket headquarters – Christian News on Christian Today|work=christiantoday.com|access-date=26 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815181352/http://www.christiantoday.com/article/salvation.army.defends.unpaid.work.placements.as.protesters.picket.headquarters/53418.htm|archive-date=15 August 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/governance/news/content/17258/boycott_workfare_protests_against_charities_involved_in_unpaid_work_schemes|title=Charity governance and trustee news – Boycott Workfare protests against charities involved in unpaid work schemes|work=civilsociety.co.uk|access-date=26 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406220915/http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/governance/news/content/17258/boycott_workfare_protests_against_charities_involved_in_unpaid_work_schemes|archive-date=6 April 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/19/workfare-godliness-christian-charities|title=Is workfare close to godliness? Some Christian charities seem to believe so – Sarah Ditum|first=Sarah|last=Ditum|date=19 March 2013|work=theguardian.com|access-date=13 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161218145136/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/19/workfare-godliness-christian-charities|archive-date=18 December 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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The Salvation Army's fundraising shops in the United Kingdom participated in the UK government's [[Work Programme]], a [[Workfare in the United Kingdom|workfare]] programme in which benefit claimants had to work for no compensation for 20 to 40 hours per week over periods as long as six months.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boycottworkfare.org/?page_id=16|title=Workfare providers|date=31 March 2011|work=boycottworkfare.org|access-date=14 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402110331/http://www.boycottworkfare.org/?page_id=16|archive-date=2 April 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christiantoday.com/article/salvation.army.defends.unpaid.work.placements.as.protesters.picket.headquarters/53418.htm|title=Salvation Army defends unpaid work placements as protesters picket headquarters – Christian News on Christian Today|work=christiantoday.com|access-date=26 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815181352/http://www.christiantoday.com/article/salvation.army.defends.unpaid.work.placements.as.protesters.picket.headquarters/53418.htm|archive-date=15 August 2016|url-status=dead}} |
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* {{cite web|url=http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/governance/news/content/17258/boycott_workfare_protests_against_charities_involved_in_unpaid_work_schemes|title=Charity governance and trustee news – Boycott Workfare protests against charities involved in unpaid work schemes|work=civilsociety.co.uk|access-date=26 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406220915/http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/governance/news/content/17258/boycott_workfare_protests_against_charities_involved_in_unpaid_work_schemes|archive-date=6 April 2016|url-status=live}} |
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* {{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/19/workfare-godliness-christian-charities|title=Is workfare close to godliness? Some Christian charities seem to believe so – Sarah Ditum|first=Sarah|last=Ditum|date=19 March 2013|website=theguardian.com|access-date=13 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161218145136/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/19/workfare-godliness-christian-charities|archive-date=18 December 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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When people buy items at Salvation Army thrift stores, part of the proceeds go toward The Salvation Army's emergency relief efforts and programs.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thriftstore.ca/british-columbia/salvation-army-thrift-store-faqs|title=SALVATION ARMY THRIFT STORE – FAQs {{!}} Thrift Store|website=www.thriftstore.ca|language=en|access-date=3 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623032756/https://www.thriftstore.ca/british-columbia/salvation-army-thrift-store-faqs|archive-date=23 June 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> Textile items not sold are recycled and turned into other items such as carpet underlay.<ref name=":1" /> The Salvation Army also helps their employees by hiring ex-felons, depending on the circumstances, because they believe in giving people second chances.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://helpforfelons.org/second-chance-jobs-for-felons/|title=Second Chance Jobs For Felons|work=Help For Felons|access-date=25 April 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620115400/http://www.helpforfelons.org/second-chance-jobs-for-felons/|archive-date=20 June 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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===Adult Rehabilitation |
===Adult Rehabilitation Centres=== |
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Some Salvation Army locations are associated with an Adult Rehabilitation Centre (ARC) in which men and women make a six-month rehabilitation commitment to live and work at the ARC residence. They are unpaid, but provided with room and board. Many ARCs are male-only. The program is primarily to combat addiction. Residents work at the warehouse, store, or residence. This is referred to as "work therapy". They attend classes, [[twelve-step program]]s, and chapel services as a part of their rehabilitation. The Army advertises these programs on their collection trucks with the slogan "Doing the Most Good".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/combat-addiction/ | title=Combat Addiction | access-date=21 September 2018 | language=en-US | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923005536/https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/combat-addiction/ | archive-date=23 September 2018 | url-status=live }}</ref> An ARC is typically associated with a main store and warehouse. Donations are consolidated from other stores and donation sites, sorted and priced, and then distributed back out to the branch stores. Low-quality donated items are sold at the warehouse dock in a "dock sale". |
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===Hadleigh Farm Colony=== |
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Farmland at Hadleigh |
Farmland at [[Hadleigh, Essex|Hadleigh]] in Essex featured market gardens, orchards, and two brickfields. It was mentioned in the Royal Commission report of 1909, which was appointed to consider Poor Laws. 7,000 trainees had passed through its doors by 1912 with more than 60% subsequently finding employment.<ref>{{cite sign| title=Hadleigh Farm Colony| publisher=Salvation Army| location=International Heritage Centre public museum, William Booth College, London, England| url=https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/international-heritage-centre| access-date=13 March 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713074751/https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/international-heritage-centre| archive-date=13 July 2017| url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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===Other=== |
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[[File:Stuff a Bus (Salvation Army).jpg|thumb|"Stuff-a-Bus" toy collection at Christmas time]] |
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The Salvation Army operates summer camps for children, Silvercrest Residences, and adult day care centers. It has headquarter offices internationally, nationally and for each territory and division. Some of the other facilities include:<ref name="stats" /> |
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The Salvation Army operates children's summer camps and adult day care centres. It has headquarter offices internationally, nationally, and for each territory and division. Some of its other facilities include:<ref name="stats" /> |
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* Homeless hostels |
* Homeless hostels |
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* Residential addiction dependency programs |
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* Mother and baby homes |
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* Women's and men's refuge |
* Women's and men's refuge centres |
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* General hospitals |
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* Schools |
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==Beliefs== |
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[[File:Salvation Army Citadel, Worthing.JPG|thumb|right|A Salvation Army [[:wikt:citadel|citadel]] (Corps) with a charity shop attached, in [[Worthing]], West Sussex.]] |
[[File:Salvation Army Citadel, Crescent Road, Worthing (March 2012) (2).JPG|thumb|right|A Salvation Army [[:wikt:citadel|citadel]] (Corps) with a charity shop attached, in [[Worthing]], West Sussex.]] |
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The official [[mission statement]] reads: |
The official [[mission statement]] reads: |
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<blockquote>The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.</blockquote> |
<blockquote>The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.<ref>{{Cite web |title=What Do We Do? |url=https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/about/ |website=salvationarmyusa.org |publisher=The Salvation Army}}</ref></blockquote> |
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Early beliefs of the Salvation Army were influenced by |
Early beliefs of the Salvation Army were influenced by the book ''Helps to Holiness'',<ref>{{Cite book|title=Helps to Holiness|last=Brengle|first=Samuel Logan|year=1896|publisher=Salvation Army Printing and Pub. House}}</ref> which influenced spiritual life in the Army for a generation.<ref name=Salvationists>{{Cite book|title=The Salvationists|last=Coutts|first=John|publisher=A R Mowbray & Co Ltd|year=1977|isbn=0-264-66071-4|location=Oxford, Great Britain}}</ref>{{rp|57}} The [[sacred text]] of the Salvation Army is the [[Bible]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/bible|title=Daily Bible Reading Guide|publisher=Salvation Army International|access-date=13 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314174437/https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/bible|archive-date=14 March 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the beliefs of the Salvation Army rest upon these eleven doctrines:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/doctrine/doctrines |title=The Doctrines of The Salvation Army |work=The General of The Salvation Army |access-date=9 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310010548/https://www.salvationarmy.org/doctrine/doctrines |archive-date=10 March 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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# We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments were given by inspiration of God; and that they only constitute the Divine rule of Christian faith and practice. |
# We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments were given by inspiration of God; and that they only constitute the Divine rule of Christian faith and practice. |
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# We believe that there are three persons in the Godhead – the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost – undivided in essence and co-equal in power and glory. |
# We believe that there are three persons in the Godhead – the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost – undivided in essence and co-equal in power and glory. |
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# We believe that in the person of Jesus Christ, the Divine and human natures are united, so that He is truly and properly God and truly and properly man. |
# We believe that in the person of Jesus Christ, the Divine and human natures are united, so that He is truly and properly God and truly and properly man. |
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# We believe that our first parents were created in a state of innocency, but by their disobedience they lost their purity and happiness; and that in consequence of their fall all men have become sinners, totally depraved, and as such are justly exposed to the wrath of God. |
# We believe that our first parents were created in a state of innocency, but by their disobedience, they lost their purity and happiness; and that in consequence of their fall all men have become sinners, totally depraved, and as such are justly exposed to the wrath of God. |
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# We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has, by His suffering and death, made an atonement for the whole world so that whosoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. |
# We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has, by His suffering and death, made an atonement for the whole world so that whosoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. |
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# We believe that repentance towards God, faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and regeneration by the Holy Spirit are necessary to salvation. |
# We believe that repentance towards God, faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and regeneration by the Holy Spirit are necessary to salvation. |
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# We believe in the immortality of the soul; in the resurrection of the body; in the general judgment at the end of the world; in the eternal happiness of the righteous; and in the endless punishment of the wicked. |
# We believe in the immortality of the soul; in the resurrection of the body; in the general judgment at the end of the world; in the eternal happiness of the righteous; and in the endless punishment of the wicked. |
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[[File:The Mercy Seat in a Salvation Army church London England.jpg|thumb|The [[Mourner's bench|Mercy Seat]] in a Salvation Army citadel.]] |
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[[File:The Mercy Seat in a Salvation Army church London England.jpg|thumb|The "Mercy Seat" in a Salvation Army citadel]]The denomination does not celebrate the [[Christianity|Christian]] [[sacrament]]s of [[Baptism]] and [[Holy Communion]]. The '''International Spiritual Life Commission''' opinion on Baptism is that enrolment as a Soldier by accepting the call to discipleship should be followed by a lifetime of continued obedient faith in Christ.<ref>{{cite book | title=Handbook of Doctrine | year=2010 | page=298 | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/doctrine/handbookdoctrine | publisher=Salvation Books | isbn=978-0-85412-822-8 | access-date=13 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314042742/https://www.salvationarmy.org/doctrine/handbookdoctrine | archive-date=14 March 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The Commissions considered option of Holy Communion is that God's grace is readily accessible in all places and at all times, although Salvationists may participate in Holy Communion if attending a service of worship in another Christian denomination if the host Church allows.<ref>{{cite book | title=Handbook of Doctrine | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/doctrine/handbookdoctrine | page=300 | year=2010 | publisher=Salvation Books | isbn=978-0-85412-822-8 | access-date=13 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314042742/https://www.salvationarmy.org/doctrine/handbookdoctrine | archive-date=14 March 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Although its officers conduct marriages, it holds a traditional Protestant belief that marriage was not instituted by [[Christ]] and therefore is not a sacrament. The [[mourner's bench|mercy seat]] is a focal point in a Salvation Army Church, symbolising God's call to his people, and a place for commitment and communion, and is available for anyone to kneel at in prayer.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/doctrine/handbookdoctrine |title=Handbook of doctrine |year=2010 |publisher=Salvation Books |isbn=978-0-85412-822-8 |page=304 |access-date=13 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314042742/https://www.salvationarmy.org/doctrine/handbookdoctrine |archive-date=14 March 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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The denomination does not celebrate [[sacrament]]s, such as [[Baptism]] and [[Holy Communion]]. The position of the International Spiritual Life Commission, which is convened by the general to examine and identify aspects of the Army's life which are essential or integral to the spiritual growth, opinion is that enrollment as a Soldier by accepting the call to discipleship should be followed by a lifetime of continued obedient faith in Christ.<ref name="hod">{{cite book | title=Handbook of Doctrine | year=2010 | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/doctrine/handbookdoctrine | publisher=Salvation Books | isbn=978-0-85412-822-8 | access-date=13 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314042742/https://www.salvationarmy.org/doctrine/handbookdoctrine | archive-date=14 March 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref>{{rp|298}} The Commission's considered opinion of Holy Communion is that God's grace is readily accessible in all places and at all times, although Salvationists may participate in Holy Communion if attending a service of worship in another Christian denomination if the host Church allows.{{r|hod|p=300}} |
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Although its officers conduct marriages, the Salvation Army holds a traditional Protestant belief that marriage was not instituted by [[Christ]] and therefore is not a sacrament. The [[Mourner's bench|mercy seat]] is a focal point in a Salvation Army Church, symbolizing God's call to his people, and a place for commitment and communion, and is available for anyone to kneel at in prayer.{{r|hod|p=304}} |
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=== Worship services === |
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There is no requirement for anyone attending a service to be a member of the Salvation Army in any capacity (as a Soldier, Adherent or Officer) and services in Salvation Army churches feature a variety of activities:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/worship|publisher=Salvation Army International|title=Worship|access-date=13 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314174100/https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/worship|archive-date=14 March 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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===Worship services=== |
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The Salvation Army does not require anyone attending a service to be a member of the Salvation Army in any capacity (as a Soldier, Adherent, or Officer). Services in Salvation Army churches feature a variety of activities:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/worship|publisher=Salvation Army International|title=Worship|access-date=13 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314174100/https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/worship|archive-date=14 March 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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* Hymns are sung, accompanied by backing music |
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* Prayers are led by the Minister leading the service |
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* There is a scripture reading from the Bible. |
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* Depending on demand, a Sunday School may be run in another room |
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* Prayers are led by the Minister leading the service. |
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* Depending on demand, a Sunday School may be run in another room. |
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* A collection is held to receive a financial offering, either loose money or coins in a ''cartridge envelope''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Weapons of Goodwill|last=Coutts|first=Frederick|publisher=The Salvation Army|year=1986|isbn=0-340-39086-7|pages=47}}</ref> This is sometimes referred to as "Tithes and Offerings". |
* A collection is held to receive a financial offering, either loose money or coins in a ''cartridge envelope''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Weapons of Goodwill|last=Coutts|first=Frederick|publisher=The Salvation Army|year=1986|isbn=0-340-39086-7|pages=47}}</ref> This is sometimes referred to as "Tithes and Offerings". |
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* The congregation sings the [[doxology]] |
* The congregation sings the [[doxology]]. |
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* A sermon on the Bible reading is then given |
* A sermon on the Bible reading is then given. |
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* The service concludes with a benediction |
* The service concludes with a benediction. |
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Local corps usually sing [[contemporary worship music]] songs in Sunday worship services |
Local corps usually sing [[contemporary worship music]] songs in Sunday worship services as well as traditional hymns from the official Songbook of the Salvation Army. Music is often accompanied by a brass band. Many American corps adopted a mainstream Christian format with video screens showing words to music so that the audience can sing along. The early Salvation Army bands were known for their excitement and public appeal, and the modern ensemble keeps to this ideology. Traditional hymns are blended with other musical pieces from Christian Music Publishers such as [[Vineyard Music]], [[Hillsong Music Australia|Hillsong]], and [[Planet Shakers]] to name but a few.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}} |
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===Soldier's Covenant=== |
===Soldier's Covenant=== |
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{{wikisource|Articles of War}} |
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The Soldier's Covenant<ref>{{cite book | title=The Salvation Army Year Book 2018 | year=2017 | isbn=9781911149408 | page=20| publisher=Salvation Books, The Salvation Army International Headquarters }}</ref> is the [[creed]] of the Salvation Army. All members of the church are allowed to subscribe to this creed; every person has to sign the document before they can become enrolled as a Soldier.<ref>{{cite book | isbn=9781911149408 | title=The Salvation Army Year Book 2018 | year=2017 | page=20| publisher=Salvation Books, The Salvation Army International Headquarters }}</ref> Members have traditionally been referred to as "soldiers" of Christ.<ref name="BehernsAbuse">{{cite news|last1=Beherns|first1=David|title=One Army's Crusade in the Salvation Army, all officers are ordained ministers. Soldiers' are congregants who have taken a special vow called Articles of War.' Their enemy: homelessness, poverty, alcohol and drug abuse|newspaper=[[Newsday]]|date=19 December 1990|id={{ProQuest|278336519}}}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www1.salvationarmy.org/heritage.nsf/0/fea4acf97c61102c80256a2200443120?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,doctrines|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051024013917/http://www1.salvationarmy.org/heritage.nsf/0/fea4acf97c61102c80256a2200443120?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,doctrines|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 October 2005|title=Articles of War For Salvation Army Soldiers|date=24 October 2005|access-date=2 April 2019}}</ref><ref name="SandinSalvation">{{cite news|last1=Sandin|first1=Jo|title=Salvation Army rallies troops, spirit Recruiting mission brings a general here for only third time since 1865|newspaper=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel|date=26 March 1997|id={{ProQuest|260508955}}}}</ref> These were formerly known as the "Articles of War", and include "Having received with all my heart the salvation offered to me by the tender mercy of God, I do here and now acknowledge God the Father to be my King; God the Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, to be my Saviour; and God the Holy Spirit to be my Guide, Comforter and Strength, and I will, by His help, love, serve, worship and obey this glorious God through time and in eternity."{{r|Salvationists|p=4}} |
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===Positional Statements=== |
===Positional Statements=== |
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Positional Statements<ref>{{cite web |title=International Positional Statements |url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/isjc/ips |website=www.salvationarmy.org |access-date=26 December 2020}}</ref> describe Salvation Army policy on various social and moral issues. They are carefully considered by the [[International Headquarters of The Salvation Army]]. They are derived from work by the International Moral and Social Issues Council. The Salvation Army opposes [[euthanasia]] and [[assisted suicide]]. Its official stance on abortion is that "The Salvation Army believes in the sanctity of all human life and considers each person to be of infinite value and each life a gift from God to be cherished, nurtured and redeemed. Human life is sacred because it is made in the image of God and has an eternal destiny. (Genesis 1:27) Sacredness is not conferred, nor can it be taken away by human agreement." The Salvation Army official stance admitted in 2010 exceptions in cases such as rape and incest: "In addition, rape and incest are brutal acts of dominance violating women physically and emotionally. This situation represents a special case for the consideration of termination as the violation may be compounded by the continuation of the pregnancy."<ref>{{Citation |
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'''Positional Statements'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/positionalstatements|publisher=Salvation Army International|title=Positional Statements|access-date=13 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314174307/https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/positionalstatements|archive-date=14 March 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> describe Salvation Army policy on various social and moral issues, are carefully considered and subject to review. They are derived from work by the International Moral and Social Issues Council. The Salvation Army opposes [[euthanasia]] and [[assisted suicide]]. Its official stance on abortion is that "The Salvation Army believes in the sanctity of all human life and considers each person to be of infinite value and each life a gift from God to be cherished, nurtured and redeemed. Human life is sacred because it is made in the image of God and has an eternal destiny. (Genesis 1:27) Sacredness is not conferred, nor can it be taken away by human agreement." The Salvation Army official stance admitted in 2010 exceptions in cases such as rape and incest: "In addition, rape and incest are brutal acts of dominance violating women physically and emotionally. This situation represents a special case for the consideration of termination as the violation may be compounded by the continuation of the pregnancy."<ref>{{Citation |
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}}</ref> It is also against the [[death penalty]]: "The Salvation Army recognises that the opinions of Salvationists are divided on the moral acceptability of capital punishment and its effectiveness as a deterrent. However, to advocate in any way the continuance or restoration of capital punishment in any part of the world would be inconsistent with the Army's purposes and contrary to the Army's belief that all human life is sacred and that each human being, however wretched, can become a new person in Christ." |
}}</ref> It is also against the [[death penalty]]: "The Salvation Army recognises that the opinions of Salvationists are divided on the moral acceptability of capital punishment and its effectiveness as a deterrent. However, to advocate in any way the continuance or restoration of capital punishment in any part of the world would be inconsistent with the Army's purposes and contrary to the Army's belief that all human life is sacred and that each human being, however wretched, can become a new person in Christ." |
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In 2012, the Salvation Army published a "Positional Statement on Homosexuality" after receiving adverse publicity about their position on [[homosexuality]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2012/s3532177.htm|title=Salvation Army apologises after 'homosexuals should die' statement|date=24 June 2012|access-date=28 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313150607/http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2012/s3532177.htm|archive-date=13 March 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> |
In 2012, the Salvation Army, Australian Territories published a "Positional Statement on Homosexuality" after receiving adverse publicity about their position on [[homosexuality]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2012/s3532177.htm|title=Salvation Army apologises after 'homosexuals should die' statement|website=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]|date=24 June 2012|access-date=28 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313150607/http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2012/s3532177.htm|archive-date=13 March 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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{{blockquote|The Bible teaches that God's intention for humankind is that society should be ordered on the basis of lifelong, legally sanctioned heterosexual unions.... A disposition towards homosexuality is not in itself blameworthy nor is the disposition seen as rectifiable at will.... Homosexual practice however, is, in the light of Scripture, clearly unacceptable. Such activity is chosen behaviour and is thus a matter of the will. It is therefore able to be directed or restrained in the same way heterosexual urges are controlled. Homosexual practice would render any person ineligible for full membership (soldiership) in the Army.<ref>[http://salvos.org.au/about-us/overview/documents/Human-Sexuality.pdf Salvos questioned over stance on homosexuality] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617043431/http://salvos.org.au/about-us/overview/documents/Human-Sexuality.pdf |date=17 June 2012 }} – The Salvation Army Australian Territories Positional Statement</ref>}} |
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On 8 December 2017, the Salvation Army released an International Positional Statement on racism which says that racism is "fundamentally incompatible with the Christian conviction that all people are made in the image of God and are equal in value. The Salvation Army believes that the world is enriched by a diversity of cultures and ethnicities."<ref name="SAI2017">{{cite web | title=International Positional Statement on Racism | website=The Salvation Army International | date=2017-12-08 | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/news/inr081217 | access-date=2021-11-25}}</ref> |
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{{quote|The Bible teaches that God's intention for humankind is that society should be ordered on the basis of lifelong, legally sanctioned heterosexual unions. ... A disposition towards homosexuality is not in itself blameworthy nor is the disposition seen as rectifiable at will. ... Homosexual practice however, is, in the light of Scripture, clearly unacceptable. Such activity is chosen behaviour and is thus a matter of the will. It is therefore able to be directed or restrained in the same way heterosexual urges are controlled. Homosexual practice would render any person ineligible for full membership (soldiership) in the Army.<ref>[http://salvos.org.au/about-us/overview/documents/Human-Sexuality.pdf Salvos questioned over stance on homosexuality] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617043431/http://salvos.org.au/about-us/overview/documents/Human-Sexuality.pdf |date=17 June 2012 }} – The Salvation Army Australian Territories Positional Statement</ref>}} |
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==Community services== |
==Community services== |
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===Disaster relief=== |
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[[File:Salvation Army Emergency Disaster Trailer.jpg|thumb|Salvation Army Emergency Disaster Trailer]] |
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In the United States, the Salvation Army's first major forays into disaster relief resulted from the [[Tragedy (event)|tragedies]] of the [[Galveston Hurricane]] of 1900 and the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]]. The Salvationists' nationwide appeals for financial and material donations yielded tremendous support, enabling the Army to provide assistance to thousands. General [[Evangeline Booth]], when she offered the services of Salvationists to President [[Woodrow Wilson]] during the First World War, thrust Salvation Army social and relief work to newer heights. Today the Salvation Army is best known for its charitable efforts. |
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In the United States, the Salvation Army's first major forays into disaster relief resulted from the [[Tragedy (event)|tragedies]] of the [[Galveston Hurricane]] of 1900<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Looking Back: A Salvation Army History Timeline |url=https://peermag.org/articles/looking-back-a-salvation-army-history-timeline/ |access-date=2023-03-19 |website=Peer Magazine {{!}} The Salvation Army |language=en}}</ref> and the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Archive Record |url=https://sawest.pastperfectonline.com/archive/F728BED7-A99F-4CE9-B27F-842226050060 |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=sawest.pastperfectonline.com}}</ref> General [[Evangeline Booth]] offered the services of Salvationists to President [[Woodrow Wilson]] during the First World War.<ref name=":3" /> |
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The Salvation Army is a [[Non-governmental organization|nongovernmental relief agency]] |
The Salvation Army is a [[Non-governmental organization|nongovernmental relief agency]]. After the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake|Indian Ocean tsunami]] in 2004, they arrived at the disaster sites to help retrieve and bury the dead. Since then they have helped rebuild homes and construct new boats for people to recover their livelihood. Members were prominent among relief organisations after [[Hurricane Hugo]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-09-21 |title=Remembering Hurricane Hugo in 1989 |url=https://thetandd.com/news/local/remembering-hurricane-hugo-in-1989/collection_3bffb9e2-da49-11e9-ad7f-dfc9a000604e.html |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=The Times and Democrat |language=en}}</ref> and [[Hurricane Andrew]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Salvation Army responds to Hurricane Andrew - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/08/27/Salvation-Army-responds-to-Hurricane-Andrew/1720714888000/ |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=UPI |language=en}}</ref> In August 2005, they supplied drinking water to poor people affected by the heat wave in the United States. Later in 2005 they responded to hurricanes [[Hurricane Katrina|Katrina]] and [[Hurricane Rita|Rita]]. They helped the victims of an earthquake in Indonesia in May 2006.{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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[[File:Williamboothcollege.jpg|thumb|left|The William Booth Memorial Training College, Denmark Hill, London: The College for Officer Training of the Salvation Army in the UK]] |
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Since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, the Salvation Army has allocated donations of more than $365 million to serve more than 1.7 million people in nearly every state. The Army's immediate response to Hurricane Katrina included the mobilisation of more than 178 canteen feeding units and 11 field kitchens which together have served more than 5.7 million hot meals, 8.3 million sandwiches, snacks and drinks. Its SATERN ([[Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.satern.org/ |title=SATERN |publisher=SATERN |accessdate=11 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419125126/http://www.satern.org/ |archive-date=19 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> network of amateur ham-radio operators picked up where modern communications left off to help locate more than 25,000 survivors. Salvation Army pastoral care counsellors were on hand to comfort the emotional and spiritual needs of 277,000 individuals. As part of the overall effort, Salvation Army officers, employees and volunteers have contributed more than 900,000 hours of service. |
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The Salvation Army was one of the first relief agencies on the scene of the [[September 11 attacks]] in New York City in 2001. They also provided prayer support for families of missing people. |
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Since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, the Salvation Army has allocated donations of more than US$365 million to serve more than 1.7 million people in nearly every American state. The Army's immediate response to Hurricane Katrina included the mobilization of more than 178 canteen feeding units and 11 field kitchens which together served more than 5.7 million hot meals, 8.3 million sandwiches, snacks, and drinks. Its SATERN ([[Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network]])<ref>[https://centralusa.salvationarmy.org/usc/satern-program/ Salvation Army SATERN webpage, Retrieved 2023-06-29]</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.satern.org/ |title=SATERN |publisher=SATERN |access-date=11 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419125126/http://www.satern.org/ |archive-date=19 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> network of amateur ham-radio operators picked up where modern communications left off to help locate more than 25,000 survivors. Salvation Army pastoral care counselors were on hand to comfort the emotional and spiritual needs of 277,000 individuals. As part of the effort, Salvation Army officers, employees, and volunteers contributed more than 900,000 hours of service.{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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The Salvation Army was one of the first relief agencies on the scene of the [[September 11 attacks]] in New York City in 2001. They also provided prayer support for families of missing people.{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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The Salvation Army, along with the [[American National Red Cross]], [[Southern Baptist Convention]], and other disaster relief organisations, are national members of the [[National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster]] (NVOAD).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nvoad.org/ |title=National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster |publisher=Nvoad.org |date=18 July 2011 |accessdate=11 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070105045432/http://www.nvoad.org/ |archive-date=5 January 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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The Salvation Army, along with the [[American National Red Cross]], [[Southern Baptist Convention]], and other disaster relief organisations, are members of the National Voluntary Organisations Active in Disaster (NVOAD).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nvoad.org/ |title=National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster |publisher=Nvoad.org |date=18 July 2011 |access-date=11 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070105045432/http://www.nvoad.org/ |archive-date=5 January 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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Also among the disaster relief capabilities is the Red Shield Defence Services, often called the SallyMan for short. The effort that they put in is similar to that of a chaplain, and reaches many more, offering cold drinks, hot drinks, and some biscuits for the soldiers of the military to have, though, if a SallyMan is on deployment, the locals are offered a share in the produce. |
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Around the world the Salvation Army have |
Around the world, the Salvation Army have emergency services support emergency disaster services in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |title=Salvation Army Emergency Disaster Services |url=https://photos.irp.us/Public-Safety/Salvation-Army/Chicago |website=Incident Response |access-date=7 May 2021}}</ref> These are mobile canteen vehicles<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/launch-new-salvation-army-emergency-response-vehicle-suffolk|title=Emergency response vehicle (county of Suffolk, England)|date=12 January 2016|website=Salvation Army UK territory|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929233236/https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/launch-new-salvation-army-emergency-response-vehicle-suffolk|archive-date=29 September 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> that provide food and other welfare to members of the [[Emergency Services]] at [[bushfires]], [[floods]], [[search and rescue|land search]], and other large- and small-scale emergency operations undertaken by Police, Fire, Ambulance, and [[State Emergency Service]] members, and to the general public affected by such events. Volunteers and officers run the canteen service. They respond when emergency services have been on the scene for more than four hours or where four or more Fire vehicles are responding.{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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===Family Tracing Service=== |
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The Family Tracing Service (sometimes known as the Missing Persons Service) was established in 1885, and the service is now available in most of the countries where The Salvation Army operates. The Tracing Service's objective is to restore (or to sustain) family relationships where contact has been lost, whether recently or in the distant past. Thousands of people are traced every year on behalf of their relatives. |
The Family Tracing Service (sometimes known as the Missing Persons Service) was established in 1885, and the service is now available in most of the countries where The Salvation Army operates. The Tracing Service's objective is to restore (or to sustain) family relationships where contact has been lost, whether recently or in the distant past. Thousands of people are traced every year on behalf of their relatives.{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}} |
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[[File:Armee-de-salut-Negative0-06-4A(1).jpg|thumb|Bell ringers standing on the streets in Lausanne.]]The Salvation Army includes many youth groups, which primarily consist of its [[Sunday school]]s and the [[Scouting|Scout and Guide]] packs |
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[[File:Salvation Army Gym.png|thumb|Salvation Army gym]] |
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The Salvation Army includes many youth groups, which primarily consist of its [[Sunday school]]s and the [[Scouting|Scout and Guide]] packs. The Scout and Guide packs are affiliated with and sponsored by the Salvation Army but are open units that allow anyone to join. These units/packs observe Christian standards and encourage young people to investigate and develop in their Christian faith. Some territories have a Salvation Army Guards and Legions Association (SAGALA). In the United States youth groups that are specifically for girls are known as Girl Guards (older girls) and Sunbeams (younger girls). [[Adventure Corps]] serves boys who are enrolled in school for first through eighth grades, and is sometimes separated into Rangers (6th–8th Grade) and Explorers (5th Grade and younger).{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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In the 21st century, the Salvation Army in the United Kingdom created a branch for the youth, called Alove |
In the 21st century, the Salvation Army in the United Kingdom created a branch for the youth, called Alove:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.salvationarmy.org.uk/alove/alove.nsf/vw-dynamic-arrays/B121E31B9AE62BF8802574FA0054344D?openDocument|title= Alove|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111205232044/http://www2.salvationarmy.org.uk/alove/alove.nsf/vw-dynamic-arrays/B121E31B9AE62BF8802574FA0054344D?openDocument |archive-date=5 December 2011 }}</ref> the Salvation Army for a new generation. Its purpose is to free the youth of the church and their communities to express themselves and their faith in their own ways. Its mission statement is "Calling a generation to dynamic faith, radical lifestyle, adventurous mission and a fight for justice". It emphasises worship, discipleship, missions, and social action. Alove is a member of the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services ([[NCVYS]]).<ref name="NCVYS members">{{cite web |url=http://www.ncvys.org.uk/index.php?page=392 |title=Full list of NCVYS members |publisher=Ncvys.org.uk |access-date=11 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512231646/http://www.ncvys.org.uk/index.php?page=392 |archive-date=12 May 2013 }}</ref> |
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=== Work Against Exploitation === |
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The Salvation Army works with a specialist team in partnership with the UK service ''Modern Slavery Helpline'' (telephone 0800 0121 700) to help people who have been exploited for labor or profits. The organisation also assists homeless people by running 461 hostels<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 January 2017 |title=Statistics page, Salvation Army International |url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/statistics |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314174058/https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/statistics |archive-date=14 March 2018 |access-date=18 March 2018 |website=Salvation Army International}}</ref> and 20 refugee programmes.{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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=== COVID-19 relief === |
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In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Salvation Army donated 224,603,024 meals and 1,822,412 [[personal protective equipment]] supply kits in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Salvation Army COVID-19 Impact Report |url=https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/covid-impact-report/pdf/covid-19-impact-report.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Home {{!}} Salvation Army 2020 COVID Impact Report |url=https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/covid-impact-report/ |access-date=2023-02-20 |website=www.salvationarmyusa.org}}</ref> |
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==History== |
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{{see also|List of Salvation Army corps in the United Kingdom in 1900}} |
{{see also|List of Salvation Army corps in the United Kingdom in 1900}} |
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The Salvation Army was founded in London's [[East End of London|East End]] in 1865 by one-time [[Methodist Reform Church]] minister [[William Booth]] and his wife [[Catherine Booth]] as the East London Christian Mission, |
The Salvation Army was founded in London's [[East End of London|East End]] in 1865 by one-time [[Methodist Reform Church]] minister [[William Booth]] and his wife [[Catherine Booth]] as the East London Christian Mission,{{r|Salvationists|p=21}} and this name was used until 1878.{{r|Salvationists|p=5}} The name "The Salvation Army" developed from an incident on 19 and 20 May 1878. William Booth was dictating a letter to his secretary [[George Scott Railton]] and said, "We are a volunteer army." [[Bramwell Booth]] heard his father and said, "Volunteer! I'm no volunteer, I'm a regular!" Railton was instructed to cross out the word "volunteer" and substitute the word "salvation".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gospeltruth.net/booth/boothbioshort.htm |title=William Bramwell Booth 1829–1912 His Life and Ministry – A Very Short Biography |publisher=Gospeltruth.net |access-date=11 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307190447/http://www.gospeltruth.net/booth/boothbioshort.htm |archive-date=7 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Salvation Army was modelled after the military, with its own flag (or colours) and its own hymns, often with words set to popular and folkloric tunes sung in the pubs. Booth and the other soldiers in "God's Army" would wear the Army's own [[Uniform of The Salvation Army#Uniform|uniform]] for meetings and ministry work. He became the "[[Generals of The Salvation Army|General]]" and his other ministers were given appropriate ranks as "[[Officer in The Salvation Army|officers]]". Other members became "[[Soldier in The Salvation Army|soldiers]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REsalvation.htm |title=Salvation Army |publisher=Spartacus Educational |access-date=11 June 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080610083229/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REsalvation.htm |archive-date=10 June 2008 }}</ref> |
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[[File:gsrailton.jpg|thumb|upright|[[George Scott Railton]] – first [[Commissioner (The Salvation Army)|Commissioner]] of the Salvation Army]] |
[[File:gsrailton.jpg|thumb|upright|[[George Scott Railton]] – first [[Commissioner (The Salvation Army)|Commissioner]] of the Salvation Army]] |
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When William Booth became known as the General, Catherine |
When William Booth became known as the General, Catherine was known as the "Mother of The Salvation Army". William was motivated to convert poor Londoners such as prostitutes, gamblers, and alcoholics to [[Christianity]],<ref name=":2">{{Cite magazine|url=http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1863162,00.html|title=The Salvation Army|last=Pickert|first=Kate|date=2 December 2008|magazine=Time|access-date=25 March 2018|language=en-US|issn=0040-781X|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327210125/http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1863162,00.html|archive-date=27 March 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> while Catherine spoke to wealthier people, gaining financial support for their work. She also acted as a religious minister, which was unusual at the time. The Foundation Deed of the Christian Mission states that women had the same rights to preach as men. William Booth described the organisation's approach: "The three 'S's' best expressed the way in which the Army administered to the 'down and outs': first, soup; second, soap; and finally, salvation."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salvationarmy-newyork.org/SSGNY/index.php?id=_about-history|title=History of The Salvation Army – Social Services of Greater New York|access-date=30 January 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070107004550/http://www.salvationarmy-newyork.org/SSGNY/index.php?id=_about-history |archive-date=7 January 2007 }}</ref> |
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In 1880, the Salvation Army started work in three other countries: Australia, Ireland, and the United States. Salvationists set out for the U.S. in 1880. George Scott Railton and his team started work in Harry Hill's Variety Theatre on 14 March 1880. The first notable convert was Ashbarrel Jimmie who had so many convictions for drunkenness that the judge sentenced him to attend the Salvation Army.{{r|Salvationists|p=113}} The corps in New York were founded as a result of Jimmys' rehabilitation. It was not always an [[Officer of The Salvation Army]] who started the Salvation Army in a new country; sometimes Salvationists emigrated to countries and started operating as "the Salvation Army" on their own authority. When the first official officers arrived in Australia and the United States, they found groups of Salvationists already waiting for them and started working with each other. The Army's organised social work began in Australia on 8 December 1883 with the establishment of a home for ex-convicts.{{r|Salvationists|p=82}} |
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In 1891, William Booth established a [[Hadleigh, Essex#Salvation Army Farm Colony|farm colony]] in Hadleigh, Essex, which allowed people to escape the overcrowded slums in London's East End. A fully working farm with its own market-gardens, orchards, and milk production, it provided training in basic building trades and household work.<ref>{{cite news |title=Salvation Army Farm Colony milk bottles |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/vVhAIAWDSii_ba1O95MAUg |access-date=30 September 2020 |agency=BBC}}</ref> |
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The Salvation Army's main converts were at first alcoholics, morphine addicts, prostitutes and other "undesirables" unwelcome in polite Christian society, which helped prompt the Booths to start their own church.<ref name="Cruz">{{Cite news |
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}}</ref> The Booths did not include the use of [[sacrament]]s (mainly [[baptism]] and [[Eucharist|Holy Communion]]) in the Army's form of worship, believing that many Christians had come to rely on the outward signs of spiritual grace rather than on grace itself |
}}</ref> The Booths did not include the use of [[sacrament]]s (mainly [[baptism]] and [[Eucharist|Holy Communion]]) in the Army's form of worship, believing that many Christians had come to rely on the outward signs of spiritual grace rather than on grace itself.<ref>{{cite web|title=Was alcohol why the Salvation Army quit both sacraments? Not exactly.|url=http://www.nodrinking.com/alcohol-why-salvation-army-quit-both-sacraments-not-exactly/|quote=The Rules of the Christian Mission had required: 'Unfermented wine only to be used' for the sacrament.}} |
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* {{cite book|first=Earl|last=Robinson|chapter=A Salvation Army Perspective on Baptism: Theological Understanding and Liturgical Practice|editor-first=Thomas F.|editor-last=Best|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pZ0_2XWXAsMC&pg=PA173|title= Baptism Today: Understanding, Practice, Ecumenical Implications|year=2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223214632/https://books.google.com/books?id=pZ0_2XWXAsMC&pg=PA173 |archive-date=23 December 2016 |pages=173–180|publisher=Liturgical Press |isbn=9780814662212 }}</ref> Other beliefs are that its members should completely refrain from drinking alcohol<ref>{{cite web |last=Booth |first=William |year=1888 |title=Strong Drink - The Training of Children: How to Make the Children into Saints and Soldiers of Jesus Christ. |url=http://www.nodrinking.com/william-booth-moderation-safe-for-nobody/ |quote=Make the children understand that the thing is an evil in itself. Show them that it is manufactured by man—that God never made a drop of alcohol. To say that alcohol is a good creature of God is one of the devil's own lies fathered on foolish and ignorant people.}} |
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As the Salvation Army grew rapidly in the late 19th century, it generated opposition in England. Opponents, grouped under the name of the [[Skeleton Army]], disrupted Salvation Army meetings and gatherings, with tactics such as throwing rocks, bones, rats, and tar as well as physical assaults on members of the Salvation Army. Much of this was led by pub owners who were losing business because of the Army's opposition to alcohol and targeting of the frequenters of saloons and public houses.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www1.salvationarmy.org/heritage.nsf/36c107e27b0ba7a98025692e0032abaa/4be78290d9a20b738025697c0051c5b2!OpenDocument |title=The Skeleton Army |publisher=.salvationarmy.org |accessdate=11 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805092213/http://www1.salvationarmy.org/heritage.nsf/36c107e27b0ba7a98025692e0032abaa/4be78290d9a20b738025697c0051c5b2!OpenDocument |archivedate=5 August 2009 }}</ref> |
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* {{cite web |last=Booth |first=Catherine |year=1879 |title=Strong Drink Versus Christianity - Papers on Practical Religion |url=http://www.nodrinking.com/catherine-booth-drink-itself-evil/ |quote=the drink, not the abuse of it, but the drink itself, is an evil thing, in very truth a "mocker," the product of Satanic art and malice, to be rejected and eschewed by all who have any regard for their own or their neighbour's well-being.}} |
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* {{cite web |last=Booth |first=Catherine |year=1884 |title=Away with the Drink - War Cry |url=http://www.nodrinking.com/catherine-booth-war-cry-away-with-the-drink/ |quote=strong drink is an evil thing—and you cannot have the moderate use of an evil thing—and therefore no Christian has any right to patronise it or to use it, or have anything to do with people who sell it or make it, or any of the houses wherein it is sold, but should wash their hands of the accursed thing. }}</ref> (Holy Communion is not practised), smoking, taking illegal drugs, and gambling.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www1.salvationarmy.org/heritage.nsf/0/fea4acf97c61102c80256a2200443120?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,doctrines |title=Articles of War For Salvation Army Soldiers |publisher=.salvationarmy.org |access-date=11 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610164243/http://www1.salvationarmy.org/heritage.nsf/0/fea4acf97c61102c80256a2200443120?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,doctrines |archive-date=10 June 2011}}</ref> Its soldiers wear a uniform tailored to the country in which they work; the uniform can be white, grey, navy, or fawn and are even styled like a [[sari]] in some areas. Any member of the public is welcome to attend their meetings.{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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As the Salvation Army grew rapidly in the late 19th century, it generated opposition in England. Opponents, grouped under the name of the [[Skeleton Army]], disrupted Salvation Army meetings and gatherings with tactics such as throwing rocks, bones, rats, and tar as well as physical assaults on members of the Salvation Army. Much of this was led by pub owners who were losing business because of the Army's opposition to alcohol and its targeting of the frequenters of saloons and public houses.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www1.salvationarmy.org/heritage.nsf/36c107e27b0ba7a98025692e0032abaa/4be78290d9a20b738025697c0051c5b2!OpenDocument |title=The Skeleton Army |publisher=.salvationarmy.org |access-date=11 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805092213/http://www1.salvationarmy.org/heritage.nsf/36c107e27b0ba7a98025692e0032abaa/4be78290d9a20b738025697c0051c5b2!OpenDocument |archive-date=5 August 2009 }}</ref> |
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[[File:Salvation Army activities. Hotel and cafeteria for (African American) men located at 7th and P Stre . . . - NARA - 533627.tif|thumb|left|Hotel and cafeteria for colored men operated by The Salvation Army, Washington, D.C. c. 1917]] |
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The Salvation Army's reputation in the United States improved as a result of its disaster relief efforts following the [[Galveston Hurricane]] of 1900 and the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]]. The familiar use of bell ringers to solicit donations from passers-by "helps complete the American portrait of [[Christmas]]."{{according to whom|date=August 2015}} In the U.S. alone, over 25,000 volunteers with red kettles are stationed near retail stores during the weeks preceding Christmas for fundraising.<ref name="Cruz" /> The church remains a highly visible and sometimes controversial presence in many parts of the world. |
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[[File:Yamamuro Gunpei.png|thumb|Gunpei Yamamuro, the first Japanese officer in the Salvation Army]]In 1882, the Salvation Army was established in Asia with the first outpost in India.<ref>{{cite web |title=Global Mission |url=https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/history-global-mission |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116022133/https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/history-global-mission |archive-date=16 November 2018 |access-date=14 March 2018 |publisher=Salvation Army UK}}</ref> The Army also established outposts in Australia in 1879, Japan in 1895, and China in 1915.{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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In 1994, the ''[[Chronicle of Philanthropy]]'', an industry publication, released the results of the largest study of charitable and non-profit organisation popularity and credibility. The study showed that The Salvation Army was ranked as the 4th "most popular charity/non-profit in America" of over 100 charities researched, with 47% of Americans over the age of 12 choosing 'Love' and 'Like A Lot' for The Salvation Army.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Charities Americans Like Most And Least |journal=The Chronicle of Philanthropy |date=13 December 1996}}</ref> |
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[[File:Salvation Army activities. Hotel and cafeteria for (African American) men located at 7th and P Stre . . . - NARA - 533627.tif|thumb|left|Hotel and cafeteria for coloured men operated by The Salvation Army, Washington, D.C. circa 1917]] |
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[[Charity Watch]] rates the Salvation Army an "A-" to an "A",<ref>Charity Rating Guide and Watchdog Report, Volume Number 59, December 2011</ref> indicating a high level of financial efficiency and [[Transparency (behavior)|organisational transparency]]. |
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The Salvation Army's reputation in the United States improved as a result of its disaster relief efforts following the [[Galveston Hurricane]] of 1900 and the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]].{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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Today, in the U.S. alone, over 25,000 volunteer bell ringers with red kettles are stationed near retail stores during the weeks preceding Christmas for fundraising.<ref name="Cruz" /> The church remains a highly visible and sometimes controversial presence in many parts of the world.{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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=== History of Doughnut Day === |
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In 1917, over 250 Salvation Army volunteers went overseas to France to provide supplies and baked goods, including doughnuts, to American soldiers. The women who served donuts to the troops fried them in soldiers' helmets. They were known as "Doughnut Lassies" and are credited with popularising doughnuts in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://centralusa.salvationarmy.org/metro/donutdayhistory/|title=The History of Donut Day|website=The Salvation Army|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151207210850/http://centralusa.salvationarmy.org/metro/donutdayhistory/|archive-date=7 December 2015|url-status=dead|access-date=25 March 2018}}</ref> [[National Doughnut Day]] is now celebrated on the first Friday of June every year, starting in Chicago of 1938, to honour those who served doughnuts to soldiers during World War l.<ref>Kevin Fagan [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/06/BAEQ181KO9.DTL "A holey holiday – National Donut Day"]. SF Chronicle (June 6, 2009). Retrieved September 20, 2020</ref> |
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The Salvation Army was one of the original six organisations that made up the [[United Service Organizations|USO]], along with the [[YMCA]], [[YWCA]], [[National Catholic Community Service]]s, [[National Jewish Welfare Board]], and [[National Travelers Aid Association]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 February 2012 |title=Serving the Troops for 71 Years |url=http://www.uso.org/stories/1096-the-uso-mission-serving-the-troops-for-71-years |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507154008/https://www.uso.org/stories/1096-the-uso-mission-serving-the-troops-for-71-years |archive-date=7 May 2018 |website=The USO}}</ref> |
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== Organisational structure == |
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[[File:salvation.army.hq.london.arp.jpg|thumb|The Salvation Army International Headquarters in London]] |
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As of 23 October 2016 the Salvation Army operates in 128 countries<ref name="128 countries"/> and provides services in 175 different languages. For administrative purposes, the Salvation Army divides itself geographically into 5 zones<ref>{{cite book | isbn=978-1-911149-40-8 | access-date=11 April 2018 | title=World map by zone, 2018 year book | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/worldmap }}</ref> and the ''zonal departments'' at International Headquarters<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org | title=international headquarters | access-date=9 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180309143303/https://www.salvationarmy.org/ | archive-date=9 March 2018 | url-status=live }}</ref> in London, United Kingdom are the main administrative link with territories and commands<ref>{{cite book | isbn=978-1-911149-40-8 | title=the salvation army year book 2018 | page=43 }}</ref> |
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These are further divided into territories, which are then sub-divided into divisions. Some territories cover several countries (like Italy and Greece)<ref>{{cite book | isbn=978-1-911149-40-8 | title=The Salvation Army Year Book 2018}}</ref> while some countries may have several territories (''Australia Eastern'' and ''Australia Southern'')<ref>{{cite book | isbn=978-1-911149-40-8 | title=The Salvation Army Year Book 2018}}</ref> In larger areas, regional and area commands are also introduced as subdivisions of divisions. Each territory has an administrative hub known as territorial headquarters (THQ). Likewise, each division has a divisional headquarters (DHQ). Each of these territories is led by a territorial commander who receives orders from the Salvation Army's international headquarters in London. A territory is normally led by an officer holding the rank of colonel (for small territories) or commissioner for larger territories. In some countries, the work of The Salvation Army may be called a command, led by a command commander. A larger command is typically led by an officer holding the rank of colonel. There is a Women's Ministries<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/wmabout|access-date=13 March 2018|title=Women's Ministries|publisher=Salvation Army|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314042848/https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/wmabout|archive-date=14 March 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> division devoted to supporting women in ministry which has 766,369 members,<ref>{{cite book | isbn=978-1-911149-40-8 | title=The Salvation Army Year Book 2018}}</ref> founded as the ''Home League''<ref>{{cite book | isbn=978-1-911149-40-8 | title=The Salvation Army Year Book 2018|page=36}}</ref> in 1907. Red Shield Defence Services<ref>{{cite sign |title=Red Shield Defence Services |type=Interpretation Board |publisher=Salvation Army |location=International Heritage Centre public museum, William Booth college, London, England |url=https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/international-heritage-centre |accessdate=13 March 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713074751/https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/international-heritage-centre |archivedate=13 July 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> work with the Armed Services in order to provide assistance such as refreshments, soap, chewing gum, toothpaste and sewing kits. "Waves of Transformation"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/wavesoftransformation |title=Waves of Transformation |access-date=20 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181130202151/https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/wavesoftransformation |archive-date=30 November 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> is a water resources project assisting deprived communities. The '''International Spiritual Life Commission''', is convened by the General to examine and identify aspects essential to the spiritual growth of both the Church and individual Salvationists.<ref>{{cite book | title=Handbook of Doctrine | year=2010 | page=294 | publisher=Salvation Books | isbn=978-0-85412-822-8 | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/doctrine/handbookdoctrine | access-date=13 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314042742/https://www.salvationarmy.org/doctrine/handbookdoctrine | archive-date=14 March 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Reliance Bank]] is the financial services arm of the Salvation Army, offering bank accounts, loans and mortgages. It is registered with the UK banking regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://register.fca.org.uk/ | title=Financial Conduct Authority register website | access-date=14 April 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421095139/https://register.fca.org.uk/ | archive-date=21 April 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref> registration number 204537. SAGIC Insurance<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sagic.co.uk/ |title=Sagic Insurance |access-date=14 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180414172302/https://www.sagic.co.uk/ |archive-date=14 April 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> is the insurance services arm of the Army, offering various types of policy, a nationwide removals service<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sagic.co.uk/the-moving-hub/ |title=SAGIC Insurance, The Moving Hub |access-date=14 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180414172325/https://www.sagic.co.uk/the-moving-hub/ |archive-date=14 April 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and a conveyancing service for buying and selling houses. |
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National Salvation Army week was created by [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|President Dwight D. Eisenhower]] on 24 November 1954, encouraging people to honour the Salvation Army for its work in the United States throughout the past seventy-five years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dwight D. Eisenhower: Proclamation 3078—National Salvation Army Week |url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=107224 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180425183743/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=107224 |archive-date=25 April 2018 |access-date=25 April 2018 |website=www.presidency.ucsb.edu}}</ref> |
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'''Heritage Centres''' are museums run by the Salvation Army which have exhibits and historical documents related to the history and work of the organisation. Heritage Centres collect, preserve, catalog, research and share material about the life and work of The Salvation Army. The International Heritage Centre in London can provide details of premises in any specific territory.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk|title=The Salvation Army|date=23 February 2016|website=The Salvation Army|access-date=25 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180325070247/https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/|archive-date=25 March 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Much of what happens at the High Council is governed by British Law, as set out in the Salvation Army Acts (1931 to 1968). The 2013 High Council consists of 118 members (62 women and 56 men) made up of the Chief of Staff, all the active commissioners and territorial leaders (some territories are led by colonels), each of whom was summoned by the Chief of the Staff for the sole purpose of electing a new General.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/news/inf260713|title=The Salvation Army International – What is the High Council?|website=www.salvationarmy.org|language=en|access-date=25 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180426011910/http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/news/inf260713|archive-date=26 April 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> The International Heritage Centre in London, England is located at the [[William Booth Memorial Training College]] and can provide details of premises in any specific territory<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/international-heritage-centre|title=International Heritage Centre|website=Salvation Army|access-date=13 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713074751/https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/international-heritage-centre|archive-date=13 July 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> and runs the '''@SalvArmyArchive''' Twitter feed. Another training college for officers is the Catherine Booth Bible College based at Winnipeg, Canada<ref>{{Cite book|title=Creed And Deed|last=Waldron|first=John|publisher=The Salvation Army (Canada and Bermuda territory)|year=1986|isbn=0-88857-067-8|location=Ontario, Canada|pages=Foreword}}</ref> which was authorised in August 1983 by the Manitoba Legislature to grant academic degrees. International Development Services team<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/development | title=international development services | access-date=4 April 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180404134706/https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/development | archive-date=4 April 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref> work with some of the poorest communities around the world and run the official '''@TSA_Projects''' Twitter feed. |
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===History of Doughnut Day=== |
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National Salvation Army week was created by [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|President Dwight D. Eisenhower]] on 24 November 1954, telling people to honor the Salvation Army during that week for its work in the United States in the past seventy-five years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=107224|title=Dwight D. Eisenhower: Proclamation 3078—National Salvation Army Week|website=www.presidency.ucsb.edu|access-date=25 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180425183743/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=107224|archive-date=25 April 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> The Salvation Army was one of the original six organizations that made up the USO along with [[YMCA]], [[YWCA]], [[National Catholic Community Service]]s, [[National Jewish Welfare Board]], and [[National Travelers Aid Association]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uso.org/stories/1096-the-uso-mission-serving-the-troops-for-71-years|title=Serving the Troops for 71 Years|date=4 February 2012|website=The USO|access-date=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507154008/https://www.uso.org/stories/1096-the-uso-mission-serving-the-troops-for-71-years|archive-date=7 May 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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In 1917, over 250 Salvation Army volunteers went to soldiers' camps in France during World War I to provide supplies and baked goods, including doughnuts, to soldiers. The women who served doughnuts to the troops fried them in soldiers' helmets. They were known as "Doughnut Lassies" and are credited with popularising doughnuts in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://centralusa.salvationarmy.org/metro/donutdayhistory/|title=The History of Donut Day|website=The Salvation Army|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151207210850/http://centralusa.salvationarmy.org/metro/donutdayhistory/|archive-date=7 December 2015|url-status=dead|access-date=25 March 2018}}</ref> [[National Doughnut Day]] is now celebrated in the United States on the first Friday of June every year, a tradition that started in Chicago in 1938, to honour those who served doughnuts to soldiers during World War I.<ref>{{cite news|first=Kevin|last=Fagan|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/06/BAEQ181KO9.DTL |title=A holey holiday – National Donut Day|work=S.F. Chronicle|date=6 June 2009|access-date=20 September 2020}}</ref> |
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===Salvation Navy=== |
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An early precursor to the Salvation Army becoming involved in [[safeguarding]] work was Catherine Booth writing to Queen Victoria regarding a Parliamentary bill for the protection of girls.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/lists/gb-2133-sa.htm| title=Personal papers| publisher=The National Archives, UK| access-date=23 February 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307182430/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/lists/gb-2133-sa.htm| archive-date=7 March 2009| url-status=live}}</ref> Safeguarding legislation was strengthened by a new Act of Parliament, the "Public General Act, An Act to make further provision for the Protection of Women and Girls, the suppression of brothels, and other purposes, (otherwise known as the [[Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885]])", which received Royal Assent on 14 August 1885<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.parliament.uk/archives | title=Parliamentary Archives Helpdesk | access-date=29 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160727195342/http://www.parliament.uk/archives | archive-date=27 July 2016 | url-status=live }}</ref> |
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In 1911, New York City architect [[Bradford Gilbert]] donated a yacht, ''The Jerry McAuley'', to the Salvation Army.<ref name=":0">{{cite news|last=Brinton|first= Arthur J. |date=2 August 1911 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96219347/missionary-ship-jerry-mcauley/ |title=Salvation Army Finds It Needs a Navy and Sends Off First Boat, The Jerry McAuley, to Fight Satan|work=The Asheville Weekly Citizen|location=Asheville, North Carolina)|page=6|access-date=5 March 2022}}</ref> [[Jerry McAuley]] was a reformed criminal who founded the McAuley Water Street Mission (now the [[New York City Rescue Mission]]) in [[Lower Manhattan]]; he was also Mrs. Gilbert's first husband.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=GPS&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CBT2310008051&v=2.1&it=r&sid=GPS&asid=0763e1bf |chapter=Jeremiah McAuley|title=Dictionary of American Biography|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|date=1936|access-date=14 July 2020}}</ref> This 35-foot powerboat with two cabins was the first vessel in the Salvation Navy in America; there were already two or three such vessels in [[Scandinavia]].<ref name=":0" /> Its purpose is "to cruise the Atlantic coast, north in the summer and south in the winter, doing missionary work among the seamen of the ports."<ref name=":0" /> There was a six person crew; the captain was evangelist Major Nils Erikson.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=23 June 1911 |title=The 'Army's' Navy: The Jerry McAuley Going to Sailors and Many Ports |pages=5 |work=The Raleigh Times (Raleigh, North Carolina) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96240397/jerry-mcauley-yacht/ |access-date=5 March 2022 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> |
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The Salvation Army was involved in getting this Act passed.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/international-heritage-centre | title=Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 | access-date=13 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713074751/https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/international-heritage-centre | archive-date=13 July 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Work included a petition (numbering 340,000 signatures deposited on the floor of the House of Commons by 8 uniformed Salvationists),<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Salvationists|last=Coutts|first=John|publisher=A R Mowbray & Co Ltd|year=1977|isbn=0-264-66071-4|location=Oxford, England|pages=84}}</ref> mass meetings and an investigation into child prostitution. W. T. Stead of the Pall Mall Gazette launched a campaign in 1885 by writing articles on ''The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon'' to expose the extent of child prostitution<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Salvationists|last=Coutts|first=John|publisher=A R Mowbray & Co Ltd|year=1977|isbn=0-264-66071-4|location=Oxford, United Kingdom|pages=84}}</ref> which involved procuring a girl, Eliza for £5. She was cared for by the Army, taken to France and subsequently testified as a key witness at the trial of Stead and Rebecca Jarrett (the prostitute who had arranged the "sale" of Eliza) at Bow Street. Both were sentenced to 6 months in prison. The newly founded Salvation Army in Japan also encountered child prostitution, derived from a system of ''Debt Bondage''. While an imperial ordinance (written in classical Japanese which few could understand) declared the girls right to freedom, the pioneer Salvationist Gunpei Yamamuro rewrote it in colloquial speech.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Salvationists|last=Coutts|first=John|publisher=A R Mowbray & Co Ltd|year=1977|isbn=0-264-66071-4|location=Oxford, England|pages=86}}</ref> His wife Kiye took charge of a girls home to provide secure accommodation for any girl wishing to give up prostitution. An imperial ordinance passed on 2 October 1900 stated that any woman who wished to give up prostitution only had to go to the nearest Police station and ask. |
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=== Safeguarding Work === |
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The involvement of the Salvation Army in work to combat ''slavery'' and ''people trafficking'' can be traced back to William Booth publishing a letter in ''The War Cry'' in 1885.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.florenceboothhouse.com/?page_id=16 | title=William Booth on Trafficking | access-date=13 April 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171030210028/http://florenceboothhouse.com/?page_id=16 | archive-date=30 October 2017 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref> The same year an escapee from a prostitution house turned up on the door of the Salvation Army headquarters and sought help from Bramwell Booth.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.florenceboothhouse.com/?page_id=16 | title=History of the Salvation Armys provision of services | access-date=13 April 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171030210028/http://florenceboothhouse.com/?page_id=16 | archive-date=30 October 2017 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref> Work with people at risk of exploitation continues today, with a [https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/antitrafficking specialist team], and working in partnership with the UK service ''Modern Slavery Helpline'' (telephone 0800 0121 700). Work is also done assisting [https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/homelessness homeless people] by running 461 hostels<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/statistics|title=Statistics page, Salvation Army International|date=1 January 2017|website=Salvation Army International|access-date=18 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314174058/https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/statistics|archive-date=14 March 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> and 20 Refugee programmes. |
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The involvement of the Salvation Army in work to combat [[slavery]] and [[human trafficking]] can be traced back to William Booth publishing a letter in ''The War Cry'' in 1885.<ref>{{cite web |title=William Booth on Trafficking |url=http://www.florenceboothhouse.com/?page_id=16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171030210028/http://florenceboothhouse.com/?page_id=16 |archive-date=30 October 2017 |access-date=13 April 2018 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> The same year an escapee from a prostitution house arrived at the door of the Salvation Army headquarters and sought help from Bramwell Booth.<ref>{{cite web |title=History of the Salvation Armys provision of services |url=http://www.florenceboothhouse.com/?page_id=16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171030210028/http://florenceboothhouse.com/?page_id=16 |archive-date=30 October 2017 |access-date=13 April 2018 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> |
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An early precursor to the Salvation Army becoming involved in [[safeguarding]] work was [[Catherine Booth]] writing to [[Queen Victoria]] regarding a Parliamentary bill for the protection of girls.<ref>{{cite web |title=Personal papers |url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/lists/gb-2133-sa.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307182430/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/lists/gb-2133-sa.htm |archive-date=7 March 2009 |access-date=23 February 2009 |publisher=The National Archives, UK}}</ref> Safeguarding legislation was strengthened by a new act of Parliament, the "Public General Act, an Act to make further provision for the protection of women and girls, the suppression of brothels, and other purposes, (otherwise known as the [[Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885]])", which received Royal Assent on 14 August 1885<ref>{{cite web |title=Parliamentary Archives Helpdesk |url=http://www.parliament.uk/archives |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160727195342/http://www.parliament.uk/archives |archive-date=27 July 2016 |access-date=29 March 2018}}</ref> The Salvation Army was involved in getting this Act passed.<ref>{{cite web |title=Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 |url=https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/international-heritage-centre |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713074751/https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/international-heritage-centre |archive-date=13 July 2017 |access-date=13 March 2018}}</ref> Its work included a petition (numbering 340,000 signatures, deposited on the floor of the House of Commons by eight uniformed Salvationists),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Coutts |first=John |title=The Salvationists |publisher=A R Mowbray & Co Ltd |year=1977 |isbn=0-264-66071-4 |location=Oxford, England |pages=84}}</ref> mass meetings, and an investigation into child prostitution. W.T. Stead of ''[[The Pall Mall Gazette]]'' launched a campaign in 1885 by writing articles on ''The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon'' to expose the extent of child prostitution,{{r|Salvationists|p=84}} which involved procuring a girl, Eliza, for £5. She was cared for by the Army, taken to France, and subsequently testified as a key witness at the trial of Stead and Rebecca Jarrett (the prostitute who had arranged the "sale" of Eliza) at Bow Street. Both were sentenced to six months in prison.{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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Various '''Constituting Instruments''' apply to different aspects of the work of the Salvation Army. Legislation passed in the United Kingdom Parliament covered the following: |
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* The '''Salvation Army Act, 1931''' contained several provisions,<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Salvationists|last=Coutts|first=John|publisher=A R Mowbray & Co Ltd|year=1977|isbn=0-264-66071-4|location=Oxford, United Kingdom|pages=26}}</ref> firstly that the High Council be convened to elect a new General when the role became vacant, and reorganised custody of property held in Charitable Trust<ref>{{cite web | title=Salvation Army Act 1931 | url=http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/acts/salvation-army-act-1931 | publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office | access-date=13 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121222021729/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/acts/salvation-army-act-1931 | archive-date=22 December 2012 | url-status=live }}</ref> by the foundation of the ''Salvation Army Trustee Company'' being formed to hold all property previously vested in the General. Section 4 relates to a servin General giving notice of their intention to retire.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Weapons of Goodwill|last=Coutts|first=Frederick|year=1986|isbn=0-340-39086-7|location=United Kingdom|pages=67}}</ref> |
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* The '''Salvation Army Act 1963'''<ref>{{cite web| url=http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/acts/salvation-army-act-1963| title=Salvation Army Act 1963| publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office| access-date=13 March 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151206150026/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/acts/salvation-army-act-1963| archive-date=6 December 2015| url-status=live}}</ref> established a non-contributory pension fund for Officers of the Salvation Army. |
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* The '''Salvation Army Act 1968''' relates to management of Salvation Army trusts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Salvation Army Act 1968|url=http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/acts/salvation-army-act-1968|publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office|access-date=13 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121222021729/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/acts/salvation-army-act-1968|archive-date=22 December 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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* The '''Salvation Army Act 1980''' revised and consolidated the constitution of the Salvation Army to continue its work.<ref>{{cite web|title=Salvation Army Act 1980|url=http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/acts/salvation-army-act-1980|publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office|access-date=13 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121222021730/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/acts/salvation-army-act-1980|archive-date=22 December 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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**Schedule 1 covered the Religious Doctrines of the Army |
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**Schedule 2 related to Common Investment Schemes and the establishment of a Central Finance Council |
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**Part V covered the Election of the General |
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[[File:Salvation army world map.PNG|thumb|left|upright=1.25|The worldwide expansion of Salvation army]] |
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The most recent statistics for membership<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/statistics | title=statistics | access-date=13 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314174058/https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/statistics | archive-date=14 March 2018 | url-status=live }}</ref> from the 2018 Year Book<ref>{{cite book | isbn=978-1-911149-40-8 | publisher=Salvation Books | title=The Salvation Army Year Book 2018 }}</ref> are 111,859 employees, 17,168 Active Officers, 9,775 Retired Officers, 1,050 Cadets, 175,811 Adherents, 411,327 [[Junior Soldier]]s and 1,182,100 Senior Soldiers. Previous membership statistics (as quoted from 2010 year book) includes 16,938 active and 9,190 retired officers, 39,071 Corps Cadets and more than 4.5 million volunteers. Members of the Salvation Army also include "adherents"; these are people who do not make the commitment to be a soldier but who recognise the Salvation Army as their church. (According to the 2006 Salvation Army year book, in the United States there are 85,148 senior soldiers and 28,377 junior soldiers, 17,396 adherents and around 60,000 employees.) Further information is available from the Salvation Army International website.<ref>{{cite web| title=Statistics| publisher=Salvation Army International| url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/statistics| access-date=13 March 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314174058/https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/statistics| archive-date=14 March 2018| url-status=live}}</ref> |
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The newly founded Salvation Army in Japan also encountered child prostitution, derived from a system of ''Debt Bondage''. An imperial ordinance (written in classical Japanese which few could understand) declared the girls' right to freedom; the pioneer Salvationist Gunpei Yamamuro rewrote it in colloquial speech.{{r|Salvationists|p=86}} His wife Kiye took charge of a girls' home to provide accommodation for any girl wishing to give up prostitution. An imperial ordinance passed on 2 October 1900 stated that any woman who wished to give up prostitution only had to go to the nearest police station and ask.{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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General [[Brian Peddle]] has been the world leader of the Salvation Army since 3 August 2018. |
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==Organisational structure== |
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[[File:Salvation Army Monument, Kensico Cemetery, 2011.JPG|thumb|The monument to the Salvation Army in [[Kensico Cemetery]]]] |
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{{See also|International Headquarters of The Salvation Army}}[[File:salvation.army.hq.london.arp.jpg|thumb|The Salvation Army International Headquarters in London|268x268px]] |
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The Salvation Army is one of the world's largest providers of social aid,{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} with expenditures including operating costs of $2.6 billion in 2004, helping more than 32 million people in the U.S. alone. In addition to community centres and disaster relief, the organisation does work in refugee camps, especially among displaced people in Africa. The Salvation Army has received an A-rating from the [[American Institute of Philanthropy]]. In the United Kingdom, the Salvation Army is no longer the largest nongovernmental provider of social services; however, it still provides a significant service to people in need. The Salvation Army is the second largest charity in the United States, with private donations of almost $2 billion for the fiscal year ending 30 September 2007.<ref>{{cite news | title =The Philanthropy 400 | work =[[The Chronicle of Philanthropy]] | page =10 | date =30 October 2008}}</ref> and is a member of the American organisation ''Christian Churches Together''.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://christianchurchestogether.org/participant-churches-and-organizations | title=christianchurchestogether | access-date=3 April 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180403173707/http://christianchurchestogether.org/participant-churches-and-organizations/ | archive-date=3 April 2018 | url-status=live }}</ref> |
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The Salvation Army operates in 133 countries.<ref name="128 countries"/> The [[General of The Salvation Army|General]] is the head of the Salvation Army. The organisation divides itself geographically into five zones: Americas and Caribbean, Europe, South Asia, South Pacific and East Asia, and Africa.<ref>{{cite book | isbn=978-1-911149-40-8 | access-date=11 April 2018 | title=World map by zone, 2018 year book | year=2017 | publisher=Salvation Books, The Salvation Army International Headquarters | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/worldmap }}</ref> The "zonal departments" at International Headquarters<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org | title=international headquarters | access-date=9 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180309143303/https://www.salvationarmy.org/ | archive-date=9 March 2018 | url-status=live }}</ref> in London, United Kingdom, are the head of global territories and commands.<ref>{{cite book | isbn=978-1-911149-40-8 | title=the salvation army year book 2018 | year=2017 | page=43 | publisher=Salvation Books, The Salvation Army International Headquarters }}</ref> |
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Each territory is further divided into territories, which are then sub-divided into divisions. Some territories cover several countries (like Italy and Greece)<ref name="auto">{{cite book | isbn=978-1-911149-40-8 | title=The Salvation Army Year Book 2018| year=2017| publisher=Salvation Books, The Salvation Army International Headquarters}}</ref> while some countries may have several territories (e.g. ''Australia Eastern'' and ''Australia Southern'')<ref name="auto"/> In larger areas, regional and area commands exist as subdivisions of divisions. Each territory has an administrative hub known as territorial headquarters (THQ). Each division has a divisional headquarters (DHQ). Each of these territories is led by a territorial commander who receives orders from the Salvation Army's international headquarters in London.{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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In 2004, the Army in the United States received a $1.6 billion donation in the will of [[Joan B. Kroc]], the third wife of former [[McDonald's]] CEO [[Ray Kroc]]. This donation was among the larger individual [[philanthropy|philanthropic]] gifts ever given to a single organisation. The donation came with certain restrictions that caused some controversy.<ref name=kroc>{{cite web|last=Nobles|first=Marla|title=Slow Going For Kroc Centers|url=http://www.thenonprofittimes.com/news-articles/slow-going-for-kroc-centers/|work=The NonProfit Times|accessdate=25 June 2013|date=1 November 2006|quote=When the Salvation Army of San Francisco broke ground this past June on a complex that would include a Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center, the project became the first to make it through a maze of guidelines and restrictions to access a share of the $1.6 billion bequest to the Salvation Army from the McDonald's fast-food heiress. ... Part of the challenge – and basis for much controversy – is raising matching funds within communities where donors now perceive the Salvation Army as affluent because of the gift.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222213420/http://www.thenonprofittimes.com/news-articles/slow-going-for-kroc-centers/|archive-date=22 February 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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===High Councils=== |
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The International Congress of the Salvation Army is normally held every 10 years<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F02E6DB1F39E633A25752C3A9639C946596D6CF 40,000 Salvation Army Delegates To Meet In London] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611143445/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F02E6DB1F39E633A25752C3A9639C946596D6CF |date=11 June 2016 }} – NYTimes.com</ref> as a conference for all Salvationists from around the world to meet. The first such conference took place in London, UK, from 28 May to 4 June 1886, and subsequent Congressional meetings were held sporadically until 1904 and then 1990.<ref>[http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq%5Cwww_sa.nsf/vw-search/B3A5335DE083697E802573C400544826?opendocument Important Events in Salvation Army History]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The seventh International Congress in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, from 28 June to 2 July 2000, was the first held outside of the UK.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.salvationist.org/intnews.nsf/vw_web_articles/C2E7ED6C471A481880256C00003160AE?opendocument |title=Salvation Army News: International News |publisher=Salvationist.org |accessdate=11 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314012410/http://www.salvationist.org/intnews.nsf/vw_web_articles/C2E7ED6C471A481880256C00003160AE?opendocument |archive-date=14 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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The latest International Congress was held in London on 1–5 July 2015, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Salvation Army's founding. |
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Much of what happens at the High Council is governed by British Law, as set out in the Salvation Army Acts ([[Salvation Army Act 1931|1931]], [[Salvation Army Act 1963|1963]], 1968, [[Salvation Army Act 1980|1980]]). The 2013 High Council consisted of 118 members (62 women and 56 men) made up of the Chief of Staff, all the active commissioners and territorial leaders (some territories are led by colonels), each of whom was summoned by the Chief of the Staff for the sole purpose of electing a new General.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/news/inf260713|title=The Salvation Army International – What is the High Council?|website=www.salvationarmy.org|language=en|access-date=25 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180426011910/http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/news/inf260713|archive-date=26 April 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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=== Heritage Centres === |
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Officers are given Marching Orders to change ministries within the Salvation Army. Usually, officers are given new marching orders every two to five years and reassigned to different posts, sometimes moving great distances. |
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Heritage Centres are museums run by the Salvation Army which have exhibits and historical documents related to the history and work of the organisation. Heritage Centres collect, preserve, catalogue, research, and share material about the life and work of The Salvation Army. The International Heritage Centre in London can provide details of premises in any specific territory.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk|title=The Salvation Army|date=23 February 2016|website=The Salvation Army|access-date=25 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180325070247/https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/|archive-date=25 March 2018|url-status=live}} |
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* {{Cite web|url=https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/international-heritage-centre|title=International Heritage Centre|website=Salvation Army|access-date=13 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713074751/https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/international-heritage-centre|archive-date=13 July 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> It also manages the Salvation Army's archival [[Twitter]] feed.{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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=== Relevant legislation === |
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In Russia the Army was founded around 1917<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Salvationists|last=Coutts|first=John|publisher=A R Mowbray & Co Ltd|year=1977|isbn=0-264-66071-4|location=Oxford, England|pages=99}}</ref> and the Army struggled on until 1922 at which point the situation had become extremely challenging.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Salvationists|last=Coutts|first=John|publisher=A R Mowbray & Co Ltd|year=1977|isbn=0-264-66071-4|location=Oxford, England|pages=100}}</ref> A Moscow court ruled that the Salvation Army was a paramilitary organisation subject to expulsion. In October 2006, the [[European Court of Human Rights]] ruled the decision illegal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/0610a.html|title=Russia's refusal to register Salvation Army is illegal, court rules|publisher=[[International Herald-Tribune]]|date=5 October 2006|accessdate=20 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090701092448/http://www.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/0610a.html|archive-date=1 July 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Salvation Army International website<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/ |title=Salvation Army International |publisher=Salvation Army International |access-date=13 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180309143303/https://www.salvationarmy.org/ |archive-date=9 March 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> lists the '''Russian Federation''', now part of the Territory of Eastern Europe.<ref>{{cite web|title=Salvation Army Eastern Europe Territory|url=http://web.salvationarmy.org/eet/www_eetr.nsf|publisher=Salvation Army Eastern Europe Territory|access-date=13 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180312042343/http://web.salvationarmy.org/eet/www_eetr.nsf|archive-date=12 March 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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Various Constituting Instruments apply to different aspects of the work of the Salvation Army. Legislation passed in the United Kingdom Parliament covered the following: |
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William Booth's dying wish for the Salvation Army to be established in China<ref>{{cite sign |title=Reaching out to the East |type=Interpretation board | location=International Heritage Centre run by the Salvation Army, William Booth College, London, England |publisher=Salvation Army}}</ref> was fulfilled in a pledge made in 1912 [[Bramwell Booth]] to his father.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Weapons of Goodwill|last=Coutts|first=Frederick|publisher=The Salvation Army|year=1986|isbn=0-340-39086-7|pages=59}}</ref> In 1915 the first officers were sent, and during the 1931 famine fed 100,000 people daily. Following political difficulties by 1952 the Army withdrew from the country but work still continues in the provinces of Macau and Hong Kong, as well as in Taiwan. |
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* The [[Salvation Army Act 1931]] contained several provisions,{{r|Salvationists|p=26}} firstly that the High Council be convened to elect a new General when the role became vacant, and reorganised custody of property held in charitable trust<ref>{{cite web | title=Salvation Army Act 1931 | url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/acts/salvation-army-act-1931 | publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office | access-date=13 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121222021729/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/acts/salvation-army-act-1931 | archive-date=22 December 2012 | work=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]] | url-status=live }}</ref> by the foundation of the Salvation Army Trustee Company being formed to hold all property previously vested in the general. Section 4 relates to a serving General giving notice of their intention to retire.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Weapons of Goodwill|last=Coutts|first=Frederick|year=1986|isbn=0-340-39086-7|location=United Kingdom|pages=67}}</ref> |
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* The [[Salvation Army Act 1963]]<ref>{{cite web| url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/acts/salvation-army-act-1963| title=Salvation Army Act 1963| publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office| access-date=13 March 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151206150026/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/acts/salvation-army-act-1963| archive-date=6 December 2015| work=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]]| url-status=live}}</ref> established a non-contributory pension fund for Officers of the Salvation Army. |
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* The Salvation Army Act 1968 relates to management of Salvation Army trusts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Salvation Army Act 1968|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/acts/salvation-army-act-1968|publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office|access-date=13 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121222021729/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/acts/salvation-army-act-1968|archive-date=22 December 2012|work=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]]|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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* The [[Salvation Army Act 1980]] revised and consolidated the constitution of the Salvation Army to continue its work.<ref>{{cite web|title=Salvation Army Act 1980|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/acts/salvation-army-act-1980|publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office|access-date=13 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121222021730/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/acts/salvation-army-act-1980|archive-date=22 December 2012|work=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]]|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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** Schedule 1 covered the Religious Doctrines of the Army |
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** Schedule 2 related to Common Investment Schemes and the establishment of a Central Finance Council |
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** Part V covered the Election of the General |
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=== Membership === |
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[[File:Salvation army world map.PNG|thumb|left|The worldwide expansion of Salvation army|303x303px]]Statistics for membership<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/statistics | title=statistics | access-date=13 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314174058/https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/statistics | archive-date=14 March 2018 | url-status=live }}</ref> from the 2018 year book,<ref>{{cite book | isbn=978-1-911149-40-8 | publisher=Salvation Books | title=The Salvation Army Year Book 2018 | year=2017 }}</ref> are: 111,859 employees, 17,168 Active Officers, 9,775 Retired Officers, 1,050 Cadets, 175,811 Adherents, 411,327 [[Junior Soldier]]s and 1,182,100 Senior Soldiers. Previous membership statistics (as quoted from 2010 year book) include 16,938 active and 9,190 retired officers, 39,071 Corps Cadets and more than 4.5 million volunteers. Members of the Salvation Army also include "adherents"; these are people who do not make the commitment to be a soldier but who recognise the Salvation Army as their church. (According to the 2006 Salvation Army year book, in the United States there are 85,148 senior soldiers and 28,377 junior soldiers, 17,396 adherents and around 60,000 employees.) |
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General [[Lyndon Buckingham]] has been the world leader of the Salvation Army since 3 August 2023.{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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[[File:Salvation Army Monument, Kensico Cemetery, 2011.JPG|thumb|The monument to the Salvation Army in [[Kensico Cemetery]]|278x278px]] |
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The Salvation Army flag is a symbol of the Army's war against sin and social evils. The red on the flag symbolises the blood shed by Jesus Christ, the yellow for the fire of the Holy Spirit and the blue for the purity of God the Father. |
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=== International Congress of the Salvation Army === |
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[[File:Crest of The Salvation Army.png|thumb|right|Crest of The Salvation Army ([[English language|Anglophone]] version)]] |
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The International Congress of the Salvation Army is normally held every ten years<ref>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F02E6DB1F39E633A25752C3A9639C946596D6CF |title=40,000 Salvation Army Delegates To Meet In London|date=1914-05-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611143445/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F02E6DB1F39E633A25752C3A9639C946596D6CF |archive-date=11 June 2016|work=[[The New York Times]] }}</ref> as a conference for all Salvationists from around the world to meet. The first such conference took place in London, U.K., from 28 May to 4 June 1886, and subsequent Congressional meetings were held sporadically until 1904 and then 1990.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq%5Cwww_sa.nsf/vw-search/B3A5335DE083697E802573C400544826?opendocument|title=Important Events in Salvation Army History|access-date=23 December 2009|archive-date=28 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928012842/http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq%5Cwww_sa.nsf/vw-search/B3A5335DE083697E802573C400544826?opendocument|url-status=dead}}</ref> The seventh International Congress in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, from 28 June to 2 July 2000, was the first held outside of the U.K.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.salvationist.org/intnews.nsf/vw_web_articles/C2E7ED6C471A481880256C00003160AE?opendocument |title=Salvation Army News: International News |publisher=Salvationist.org |access-date=11 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314012410/http://www.salvationist.org/intnews.nsf/vw_web_articles/C2E7ED6C471A481880256C00003160AE?opendocument |archive-date=14 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The latest International Congress was held in London on 1–5 July 2015, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Salvation Army's founding.{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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=== Presence in Russia === |
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In Russia the Army was founded around 1917{{r|Salvationists|p=99}} and it struggled until 1922 at which point the situation had become extremely challenging.{{r|Salvationists|p=100}} A Moscow court ruled that the Salvation Army was a paramilitary organisation subject to expulsion. In October 2006, the [[European Court of Human Rights]] ruled the decision illegal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/0610a.html|title=Russia's refusal to register Salvation Army is illegal, court rules|publisher=[[International Herald-Tribune]]|date=5 October 2006|access-date=20 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090701092448/http://www.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/0610a.html|archive-date=1 July 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Salvation Army International website<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/ |title=Salvation Army International |publisher=Salvation Army International |access-date=13 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180309143303/https://www.salvationarmy.org/ |archive-date=9 March 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> lists the Russian Federation as part of the Territory of Eastern Europe.<ref>{{cite web|title=Salvation Army Eastern Europe Territory|url=http://web.salvationarmy.org/eet/www_eetr.nsf|publisher=Salvation Army Eastern Europe Territory|access-date=13 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180312042343/http://web.salvationarmy.org/eet/www_eetr.nsf|archive-date=12 March 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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The oldest official emblem of The Salvation Army is the crest. |
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=== Presence in China === |
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In 1878 Captain W.H. Ebdon suggested a logo, and in 1879 it was to be found on the letterhead of the Salvation Army Headquarters. The captain's suggested design was changed only slightly and a crown was added. |
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William Booth's dying wish for the Salvation Army to be established in China<ref>{{cite sign |title=Reaching out to the East |type=Interpretation board | location=International Heritage Centre run by the Salvation Army, William Booth College, London, England |publisher=Salvation Army}}</ref> was taken up in a pledge made in 1912 by [[Bramwell Booth]] to his father.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Weapons of Goodwill|last=Coutts|first=Frederick|publisher=The Salvation Army|year=1986|isbn=0-340-39086-7|pages=59}}</ref> In 1915 the first officers were sent, and during the 1931 famine fed 100,000 people daily. Following political difficulties by 1952 the Army withdrew from the country but work still continues in Macau and Hong Kong, as well as in Taiwan.{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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==Symbols== |
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===Flag=== |
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[[File:Standard of the Salvation Army.svg|thumb|Standard of The Salvation Army ([[English language|Anglophone]] version)]] |
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The Salvation Army flag is a symbol of the Army's war against sin and social evils. The red on the flag symbolises the blood of Jesus Christ, the yellow for the fire of the Holy Spirit, and the blue for purity and God.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Swain |first1=Jason |title=Why a Flag? |url=https://www.thewarcry.org/articles/why-a-flag/ |website=thewarcry.org |publisher=The War Cry |access-date=2 June 2023}}</ref> |
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===Crest=== |
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[[File:Crest of The Salvation Army.png|thumb|Crest of The Salvation Army ([[English language|Anglophone]] version)]] |
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The oldest official emblem of The Salvation Army is the crest. In 1878 Captain W.H. Ebdon suggested a logo, and in 1879 it was to be found on the letterhead of the Salvation Army Headquarters. The captain's suggested design was changed only slightly and a crown was added.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Crest Symbolism |url=https://centralusa.salvationarmy.org/northern/the-salvation-army-crest/ |access-date=2 June 2023 |website=The Salvation Army}}</ref><ref name="Salo AU">{{cite web |title=Structure, symbols and terminology |url=https://www.salvationarmy.org.au/about-us/leadership-and-structure/structure-symbols-and-terminology/ |publisher=The Salvation Army of Australia |access-date=2 June 2023}}</ref> |
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The Army's crest contains Biblical references though its symbolism: |
The Army's crest contains Biblical references though its symbolism: |
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* The sun with its rays represents the light and fire of the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 3:11) |
* The sun with its rays represents the light and fire of the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 3:11) |
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* The cross represents the cross of Jesus on which He died as a sacrifice for our sins. (Romans 3:25) |
* The cross represents the cross of Jesus on which He died as a sacrifice for our sins. (Romans 3:25) |
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* The letter "S" represents the salvation which is available to all people through Jesus Christ. (John 3:16–17) |
* The letter "S" represents the salvation which is available to all people through Jesus Christ. (John 3:16–17) |
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* The crossed swords represent God's Word (Hebrews 4:12). God's Word is the Christian's weapon in the salvation war (the war against Satan and evil). |
* The crossed swords represent God's Word (Hebrews 4:12). God's Word is the Christian's weapon in the salvation war (the war against Satan and evil). |
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* The Gospel shots (Psalm 119:160) represent the basic truths of the Gospel; there are 7 in all. |
* The Gospel shots (Psalm 119:160) represent the basic truths of the Gospel; there are 7 in all.{{Ordered list |The existence of a Holy God; |The evils of sin are against God and man; |There will be punishment for sin that is fair and everlasting; |Jesus died on the cross for the human race; |Salvation is for all mankind and is free to all who accept Jesus Christ; |It is the responsibility of every Christian to do whatever they can do to spread the Gospel; |God rewards those who are faithful with eternal life in Heaven with Him.}} |
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* The words "Blood and Fire" as the "war cry" of the Salvation Army. It is Jesus' blood that washes us clean from sin and it is the fire of the Holy Spirit that makes us pure and helps us live lives that are pleasing to God. |
* The words "Blood and Fire" as the "war cry" of the Salvation Army. It is Jesus' blood that washes us clean from sin and it is the fire of the Holy Spirit that makes us pure and helps us live lives that are pleasing to God. |
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* The crown represents the "Crown of Life and Glory" which God will give to all those who have been faithful to Him (James 1:12).}} |
* The crown represents the "Crown of Life and Glory" which God will give to all those who have been faithful to Him (James 1:12).}} |
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===Red Shield=== |
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The Red Shield has its origins in Salvation Army work during wartime. At the end of the 19th century, Staff-Captain Mary Murray was sent by William Booth to support British troops serving in the [[Boer War]] in South Africa. Then, in 1901, this same officer was given the task of establishing the Naval and Military League, the forerunner of the Red Shield Services. |
The Red Shield has its origins in Salvation Army work during wartime. At the end of the 19th century, Staff-Captain Mary Murray was sent by William Booth to support British troops serving in the [[Boer War]] in South Africa. Then, in 1901, this same officer was given the task of establishing the Naval and Military League, the forerunner of the Red Shield Services.<ref name="Salo AU" /> |
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[[File:Armee-du-salut.jpg|thumb|left|The Salvation Army red shield logo, displayed on the side of a night shelter in [[Geneva]], Switzerland.]] |
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Salvation Army officers serving in the Red Shield Services in wartime performed many functions. The Doughnut Girls of World War I are an early example, serving refreshments to troops in the trenches. They also provided first aid stations, ambulances, chaplaincy, social clubs, Christian worship and other front-line services.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www1.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki%5Cwww_uki_ihc.nsf/stc-vw-sublinks/88C38CD01C4E9F518025747A003178D0?openDocument |title=International Heritage Centre: Red Shield |publisher=.salvationarmy.org.uk |accessdate=11 April 2012 }}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> |
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[[File:Armee-du-salut.jpg|thumb|The Salvation Army red shield logo, displayed on the side of a night shelter in [[Geneva]], Switzerland.]] |
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This symbol is still used in Blue Shield Services that serve the British Armed Forces but it is widely used as a simple, more readily identifiable symbol in many Salvation Army settings. It is common to see the Red Shield used on casual Salvation Army uniform. It is now official Salvation Army policy in the UK that the red shield should be used as the external symbol of the Salvation Army, with the Crest only being used internally. Therefore, any new Salvation Army building will now have the red shield on the outside rather than the crest which certainly would have been used on its Corps (church) buildings. This was "imposed" in the UK by the Senior Management with little or no consultation with members. Not all have welcomed this change.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sps-shop.com/ukt%5Cspnsshop.nsf/default.html |title=SP&S Online Store |publisher=Sps-shop.com |accessdate=11 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716122813/http://www.sps-shop.com/ukt/spnsshop.nsf/default.html |archivedate=16 July 2011 }}</ref> |
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Salvation Army officers serving in the Red Shield Services in wartime performed many functions. The Doughnut Girls of World War I are an early example, who served refreshments to troops in the trenches. They also provided first aid stations, ambulances, chaplaincy, social clubs, Christian worship, and other front-line services.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www1.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki%5Cwww_uki_ihc.nsf/stc-vw-sublinks/88C38CD01C4E9F518025747A003178D0?openDocument |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928014925/http://www1.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki%5Cwww_uki_ihc.nsf/stc-vw-sublinks/88C38CD01C4E9F518025747A003178D0?openDocument |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 September 2011 |title=International Heritage Centre: Red Shield |publisher=.salvationarmy.org.uk |access-date=11 April 2012 }}</ref> |
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This symbol is still used in Blue Shield Services that serve the British Armed Forces but it is widely used as a simple, more readily identifiable symbol in many Salvation Army settings. It is common to see the Red Shield used on a casual Salvation Army uniform. It is now official Salvation Army policy in the U.K. that the red shield should be used as the external symbol of the Salvation Army, with the Crest only being used internally. Therefore, any new Salvation Army building will now have the red shield on the outside rather than the crest which certainly would have been used on its Corps (church) buildings. This was "imposed" in the U.K. by the Senior Management with little or no consultation with members. Not all have welcomed this change.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sps-shop.com/ukt%5Cspnsshop.nsf/default.html |title=SP&S Online Store |publisher=Sps-shop.com |access-date=11 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716122813/http://www.sps-shop.com/ukt/spnsshop.nsf/default.html |archive-date=16 July 2011 }}</ref> |
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Salvation Army officers, cadets<ref>{{cite book | title=Handbook of Doctrine | year=2010 | page=xiii | publisher=Salvation Books | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/doctrine/handbookdoctrine | access-date=13 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314042742/https://www.salvationarmy.org/doctrine/handbookdoctrine | archive-date=14 March 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref> (trainee officers) and soldiers often wear uniforms. The idea that they should do so originated with [[Elijah Cadman]], who, at the Salvation Army's "War Congress" in August 1878, said, "I would like to wear a suit of clothes that would let everyone know I meant war to the teeth and salvation for the world". The uniform identifies the wearer as a Salvationist and a Christian. It also symbolises availability to those in need. The uniform takes many forms internationally but is characterised by the 'S' insignia for 'Salvation' and carries the meaning 'Saved to Serve', or 'Saved to Save'. Different colors and styles represent different ranks including soldiers, cadets, lieutenants, captains, majors, colonels, commissioner, and even the General. |
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Salvation Army officers, cadets<ref>{{cite book | title=Handbook of Doctrine | year=2010 | page=xiii | publisher=Salvation Books | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/doctrine/handbookdoctrine | access-date=13 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314042742/https://www.salvationarmy.org/doctrine/handbookdoctrine | archive-date=14 March 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref> (trainee officers) and soldiers often wear uniforms. The idea that they should do so originated with [[Elijah Cadman]], who, at the Salvation Army's "War Congress" in August 1878, said, "I would like to wear a suit of clothes that would let everyone know I meant war to the teeth and salvation for the world". The uniform identifies the wearer as a Salvationist and a Christian. It also symbolises availability to those in need. The uniform takes many forms internationally but is characterised by the "S" insignia for "Salvation" and carries the meaning "Saved to Serve", or "Saved to Save". Different colours and styles represent different ranks including soldiers, cadets, lieutenants, captains, majors, colonels, commissioner, and General. |
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Characteristics of the uniform vary between ranks where accessories (the official term is "trimmings") |
Characteristics of the uniform vary between ranks where accessories (the official term is "trimmings") consist of [[epaulettes]] and hexagonal lapel patches.<ref>{{cite book | date=2012 | title=Uniform(UK)2012 | publisher=Salvation Army UK (International Heritage Centre, William Booth College, London, England)}}</ref> |
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The uniform varies with the position and rank: |
The uniform varies with the position and rank: |
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* Soldier: plain black epaulettes (Corps name woven into base of epaulette) and black lapel patch with "S" |
* Soldier: plain black epaulettes (Corps name woven into base of epaulette) and black lapel patch with "S" |
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** Major: red epaulette with silver crest and red lapel patch with "S" |
** Major: red epaulette with silver crest and red lapel patch with "S" |
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Other letters are substituted to conform with local language. The words "The Salvation Army" are woven into the fabric of the uniform as a logo on shirts, blouses and jackets. |
Other letters are substituted to conform with local language. The words "The Salvation Army" are woven into the fabric of the uniform as a logo on shirts, blouses, and jackets. |
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===Tartan=== |
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[[File:Salvation Army Dress Tartan.png|thumb|The Salvation Army Dress Tartan]] |
[[File:Salvation Army Dress Tartan.png|thumb|The Salvation Army Dress Tartan]] |
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Since 1983 there has been an official Salvation Army [[tartan]]. It was designed by Captain Harry Cooper, for the [[Perth, Scotland|Perth]] Citadel Corps centenary commemoration in Scotland. It is based upon the colours of the Salvation Army flag, with which it shares the same symbolism. It is rarely seen outside Scotland.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3647 |title=Tartan Details – The Scottish Register of Tartans |publisher=Tartanregister.gov.uk | |
Since 1983 there has been an official Salvation Army [[tartan]]. It was designed by Captain Harry Cooper, for the [[Perth, Scotland|Perth]] Citadel Corps centenary commemoration in Scotland. It is based upon the colours of the Salvation Army flag, with which it shares the same symbolism. It is rarely seen outside Scotland.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3647 |title=Tartan Details – The Scottish Register of Tartans |publisher=Tartanregister.gov.uk |access-date=11 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120412105624/http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3647 |archive-date=12 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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===Salute=== |
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The Salvation Army has a unique form of salute which involves raising the right hand above shoulder-height with the index finger pointing upwards. It signifies recognition of a fellow citizen of heaven, and a pledge to do everything possible to get others to heaven also.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www1.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki%5Cwww_uki_ihc.nsf/stc-vw-sublinks/8B36901CFBFAF7468025707B003CB1A4?openDocument |title=International Heritage Centre: The salute |publisher=.salvationarmy.org.uk | |
The Salvation Army has a unique form of salute which involves raising the right hand above shoulder-height with the index finger pointing upwards. It signifies recognition of a fellow citizen of heaven, and a pledge to do everything possible to get others to heaven also.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www1.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki%5Cwww_uki_ihc.nsf/stc-vw-sublinks/8B36901CFBFAF7468025707B003CB1A4?openDocument |title=International Heritage Centre: The salute |publisher=.salvationarmy.org.uk |access-date=11 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060603201434/http://www1.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/www_uki_ihc.nsf/stc-vw-sublinks/8B36901CFBFAF7468025707B003CB1A4?openDocument |archive-date=3 June 2006 }}</ref> A Salvationist who salutes in this manner in response to applause, signifies that he or she wishes to give Glory to God and not themselves. In some instances, the salute is accompanied with a shout of "hallelujah!" |
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===Red kettles=== |
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[[File:Salvation Army red kettle at supermarket entrance Ypsilanti Michigan.JPG|thumb |
[[File:Salvation Army red kettle at supermarket entrance Ypsilanti Michigan.JPG|thumb|Red kettle at supermarket entrance, [[Ypsilanti, Michigan]]]] |
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In many countries, the Salvation Army is recognised during the Christmas season |
In many countries, the Salvation Army is recognised during the Christmas season as its volunteers and employees stand outside of businesses and play/sing Christmas carols, or ring bells to inspire passers-by to place donations of cash and cheques inside [[Christmas kettle|red kettles]]. A tradition has developed in the United States in which, in some places, gold coins or rings or bundles of large bills are anonymously inserted into the kettles. This was first recorded in 1982, in [[Crystal Lake, Illinois]], a suburb of Chicago.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/11/28/salvation-army-receives-mystery-donations-of-gold/|title=Salvation Army Receives Mystery Donations of Gold|work=chicagotribune.com|date=28 November 1998 |access-date=17 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118164113/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-11-28/news/9811280127_1_gold-coins-kettle-crystal-lake|archive-date=18 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="VancSun1224">{{cite news|last1=Larimer|first1=Sarah|title=The mystery of 'St. Grand,' the secret donor dropping bundles of cash into Salvation Army kettles in Minnesota|url=https://vancouversun.com/news/world/mystery+98st+grand+secret+donor+dropping+bundles+cash+into/12582455/story.html|access-date=26 December 2016|agency=WaPo|newspaper=Vancouver Sun|date=24 December 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225152255/http://www.vancouversun.com/news/world/mystery+98st+grand+secret+donor+dropping+bundles+cash+into/12582455/story.html|archive-date=25 December 2016}}</ref> Red kettles are not only used during the Christmas season, but throughout the year at other fundraising events, such as on [[National Doughnut Day]] in the U.S. On this day, some doughnut shops that teamed up with the Salvation Army have a red kettle set up for donations. Each corps has a monetary goal chosen for them by Divisional Headquarters, which differs based on size and capability.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://journalstar.com/news/local/local-bakeries-offer-free-or-cheap-doughnuts-friday/article_1772f924-e0df-5e24-84af-ebd9a9fd53ca.html|title=Local bakeries offer free or cheap doughnuts Friday|last=Star|first=Lincoln Journal|work=JournalStar.com|access-date=1 June 2017|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170605012623/http://journalstar.com/news/local/local-bakeries-offer-free-or-cheap-doughnuts-friday/article_1772f924-e0df-5e24-84af-ebd9a9fd53ca.html|archive-date=5 June 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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===Red Shield Appeal and Self-Denial Appeal=== |
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The Red Shield Appeal and Self-Denial Appeal are annual fundraising campaigns in some territories, such as the |
The Red Shield Appeal and Self-Denial Appeal are annual fundraising campaigns in some territories, such as the U.K. and Australia. Each year, officers, soldiers, employees, and volunteers take to the streets worldwide to participate in door-to-door or street collections. The money raised is channelled towards The Salvation Army's social work in each respective territory. Within the territory defined by the United Kingdom and Ireland (UKIT) this collection is known as the Annual Appeal, and it often carries another name that the general public would more readily know—in 2012 it became The Big Collection. |
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[[File:USA Southern Territory Youth Choir.jpg|thumb|The USA Southern Territory Youth Choir singing in [[Atlanta, Georgia]].]] |
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As the popularity of the organisation grew and Salvationists worked the streets of London attempting to convert individuals, they were sometimes confronted with unruly crowds. A family of musicians (the Frys, from [[Alderbury]], Wiltshire) began working with the Army as their "bodyguards" and played music to distract the crowds.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sacollectables.com/firsts.html |title=Salvation Army Collectables – Salvation Army Firsts |publisher=Sacollectables.com |access-date=11 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419061231/http://www.sacollectables.com/firsts.html |archive-date=19 April 2012 }}</ref> In 1891, a Salvation Army band attempted to parade and play music in Eastbourne, Sussex, England. This was in contravention of local by-laws and resulted in the arrest of nine Salvationists. Unperturbed the Army continued to parade in defiance of the law, with the aim of gathering support for a change in legislation. Over the next few months the situation in the town escalated to such an extent that there were riots, and mounted police had to be called in from surrounding areas to try to maintain order.<ref>{{cite journal |title=THE SALVATION ARMY DISTURBANCES AT EASTBOURNE. |journal=Hansard |date=24 July 1891 |volume=356 cc315-7 |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jul/24/the-salvation-army-disturbances-at |access-date=7 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807185906/https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jul/24/the-salvation-army-disturbances-at |archive-date=7 August 2018 |url-status=dead }} |
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* {{cite news |title=Sir W Harcourt and the Eastbourne Riots |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22575829/eastbourne_riots/ |access-date=7 August 2018 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=14 October 1891 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807185846/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22575829/eastbourne_riots/ |archive-date=7 August 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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The tradition of having musicians available continued and eventually grew into standard brass bands. These are still seen in public at Army campaigns, as well as at other festivals, parades, and at Christmas. Across the world the [[Brass band (British style)|brass band]] has been part of the Army's ministry and an immediately recognisable symbol to Salvationists and non-Salvationists alike. The Salvation Army also has choirs; these are known as [[Songsters|Songster Brigades]], normally comprising the traditional soprano, alto, tenor, and bass singers. The premier Songster Brigade in the Salvation Army is the [[International Staff Songsters of the Salvation Army|International Staff Songsters]] (ISS). The standard of playing is high and the Army operates bands at the international level—such as the [[International Staff Band]] (a brass band) which is the equal of professional ensembles although it does not participate in the [[Music competition|brass band contest]] scene—and territorial levels such as the New York Staff Band. Some professional brass players and contesting brass band personnel have Salvation Army backgrounds. Many Salvation Army corps have brass bands that play at Salvation Army meetings, although not all. The Salvation Army also fielded large [[concertina]] bands. From the turn of the (20th) century to the Second World War between a third and a half of all SA officers in Britain played concertina. For an evangelist, the concertina's portability, its ability to play both melody and chords, and most especially the fact that the player can sing or speak while playing, were all distinct advantages over brass instruments.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.concertina.info/tina.faq/images/salv.htm |title=Salvation Army Concertina Bands |publisher=concertina.info |access-date=15 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221185404/http://www.concertina.info/tina.faq/images/salv.htm |archive-date=21 February 2015 |url-status=dead }} |
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As the popularity of the organisation grew and Salvationists worked their way through the streets of London attempting to convert individuals, they were sometimes confronted with unruly crowds. A family of musicians (the Frys, from [[Alderbury]], Wiltshire) began working with the Army as their "bodyguards" and played music to distract the crowds.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sacollectables.com/firsts.html |title=Salvation Army Collectables – Salvation Army Firsts |publisher=Sacollectables.com |accessdate=11 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419061231/http://www.sacollectables.com/firsts.html |archivedate=19 April 2012 }}</ref> In 1891 a Salvation Army band attempted to parade and play music in Eastbourne, Sussex, England. This was in contravention of local by-laws and resulted in the arrest of 9 Salvationists. Unperturbed the Army continued to parade in defiance of the law, with the aim of gathering support for a change in legislation. Over the next few months the situation in the town escalated to such an extent that there were riots, and mounted police had to be called in from surrounding areas to try to maintain order.<ref>{{cite journal |title=THE SALVATION ARMY DISTURBANCES AT EASTBOURNE. |journal=Hansard |date=24 July 1891 |volume=356 cc315-7 |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jul/24/the-salvation-army-disturbances-at |accessdate=7 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807185906/https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1891/jul/24/the-salvation-army-disturbances-at |archive-date=7 August 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Sir W Harcourt and the Eastbourne Riots |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22575829/eastbourne_riots/ |accessdate=7 August 2018 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=14 October 1891 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807185846/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22575829/eastbourne_riots/ |archive-date=7 August 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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* {{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKv1_-BIFBs |title=Bramwell Thornett – Salvation Army Concertina Solo (1940) |publisher=Salvation Army |access-date=15 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904091646/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKv1_-BIFBs |archive-date=4 September 2015 |url-status=live }} |
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* {{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIru7v0UsHg |title=Archie Burgess and Eric Ball – Salvation Army Concertina Solo (1936) |publisher=Salvation Army |access-date=15 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705193705/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIru7v0UsHg |archive-date=5 July 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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The Army tradition in music is to use the popular idiom of the day to reach people for Jesus. The Army's [[The Joystrings|Joy Strings]] were a hit pop group in the 1960s and early 1970s in the U.K. and beyond, reaching the charts and being featured on national television. Another popular band is [[The Insyderz]], an American ska-core group popular in the 1990s and early 2000s. Hundreds of bands carry on this Salvation Army tradition, such as New Zealand's [[Moped (band)|Moped]], Chamberlain, Vatic, Agent C, and [[The Lads]]; England's [[Electralyte]]; Australia's Soteria Music Ministries, Summer Carnival Band, Crown of Thorns and Escape; and America's transMission, The Singing Company, HAB, BurN, and CJD – Cookies, Juice, & Donuts. Saytunes is a website designed to encourage and promote these contemporary Salvation Army bands and artists. Another significant musical feature of the Salvation Army is its use of [[tambourine]]s with colourised ribbons representing the colours of the Salvation Army flag. They are mainly played by women.{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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The tradition of having musicians available continued and eventually grew into standard brass bands. These are still seen in public at Army campaigns, as well as at other festivals, parades and at Christmas. Across the world the [[Brass band (British style)|brass band]] has been an integral part of the Army's ministry and an immediately recognisable symbol to Salvationists and non-Salvationists alike. The Salvation Army also has choirs; these are known as [[Songsters|Songster Brigades]], normally comprising the traditional soprano, alto, tenor and bass singers. The premier Songster Brigade in the Salvation Army is the International Staff Songsters (ISS). The standard of playing is high and the Army operates bands at the international level, such as the [[International Staff Band]] (a brass band) which is the equal of professional ensembles although it does not participate in the [[Music competition|brass band contest]] scene, and territorial levels such as the New York Staff Band. Some professional brass players and contesting brass band personnel have Salvation Army backgrounds. Many Salvation Army corps have brass bands that play at Salvation Army meetings, although not all. The Salvation Army also fielded large [[concertina]] bands. From the turn of the (20th) century to the Second World War between a third and a half of all SA officers in Britain played concertina. For an evangelist the concertina's portability, its ability to play both melody and chords, and most especially the fact that the player can sing or speak while playing, were all distinct advantages over brass instruments.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.concertina.info/tina.faq/images/salv.htm |title=Salvation Army Concertina Bands |publisher=concertina.info |accessdate=15 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221185404/http://www.concertina.info/tina.faq/images/salv.htm |archive-date=21 February 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKv1_-BIFBs |title=Bramwell Thornett – Salvation Army Concertina Solo (1940) |publisher=Salvation Army |accessdate=15 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904091646/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKv1_-BIFBs |archive-date=4 September 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIru7v0UsHg |title=Archie Burgess and Eric Ball – Salvation Army Concertina Solo (1936) |publisher=Salvation Army |accessdate=15 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705193705/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIru7v0UsHg |archive-date=5 July 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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==Publications== |
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The Army tradition in music is to use the popular idiom of the day to reach people for Jesus. The Army's [[The Joystrings|Joy Strings]] were a hit pop group in the 1960s and early 1970s in the UK and beyond, reaching the charts and being featured on national television. Another popular band is [[The Insyderz]], an American ska-core group popular in the 1990s and early 2000s. Hundreds of bands carry on this Salvation Army tradition, such as New Zealand's [[Moped (band)|Moped]], Chamberlain, Vatic, Agent C, and [[The Lads]]; England's [[Electralyte]]; Australia's Soteria Music Ministries, Summer Carnival Band, Crown of Thorns and Escape; and America's [http://transmission.virb.com transMission], The Singing Company, HAB, BurN, and CJD – Cookies, Juice, & Donuts. Saytunes is a website designed to encourage and promote these contemporary Salvation Army bands and artists. Another significant musical feature of the Salvation Army is its use of [[tambourine]]s. With coloured ribbons representing the colours of the Salvation Army flag, timbrels play an integral facet of music in the Salvation army. They are mainly played by women. |
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The Salvation Army publishes books, magazines, and sheet music.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sps-shop.com | title=Salvationist Publishing & Supplies | access-date=27 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327084355/http://www.sps-shop.com/ | archive-date=27 March 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Due to the way in which the Salvation Army is constituted, copyright of some Army publications is vested in the General of The Salvation Army, and not necessarily the original authors.<ref>{{cite book | title=Handbook of Doctrine (free PDF downoad) | year=2010 | page=4 | publisher=Salvation Books | isbn=978-0-85412-822-8 | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/doctrine/handbookdoctrine | access-date=13 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314042742/https://www.salvationarmy.org/doctrine/handbookdoctrine | archive-date=14 March 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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There are official social media accounts run by the Salvation Army on Twitter, Facebook groups run by Territories and Corps officers, and unofficial fan groups.{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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In addition to books and magazines, the Salvation Army publishes sheet music<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sps-shop.com | title=Salvationist Publishing & Supplies | access-date=27 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327084355/http://www.sps-shop.com/ | archive-date=27 March 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref> and Facebook groups run by Territories and Corps officers, and unofficial fan groups. Due to the way in which the Salvation Army is constituted, copyright of some Army publications is vested in the '''General of The Salvation Army''', and not necessarily the original authors.<ref>{{cite book | title=Handbook of Doctrine (free PDF downoad) | year=2010 | page=4 | publisher=Salvation Books | isbn=978-0-85412-822-8 | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org/doctrine/handbookdoctrine | access-date=13 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314042742/https://www.salvationarmy.org/doctrine/handbookdoctrine | archive-date=14 March 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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There are official social media accounts run by the Salvation Army on Twitter and Facebook. |
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===Books and magazines=== |
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* ''New Frontier Chronicle'', news and networking for the Salvation Army<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newfrontierchronicle.org|title=New Frontier Chronicle – The official news source of the Salvation Army USA Western Territory|work=newfrontierchronicle.org|access-date=8 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710184422/https://www.newfrontierchronicle.org/|archive-date=10 July 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
* ''New Frontier Chronicle'', news and networking for the Salvation Army<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newfrontierchronicle.org|title=New Frontier Chronicle – The official news source of the Salvation Army USA Western Territory|work=newfrontierchronicle.org|access-date=8 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710184422/https://www.newfrontierchronicle.org/|archive-date=10 July 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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* ''Caring Magazine'', curating conversation around issues of social concern<ref>{{cite web|url=http://caringmagazine.org|title=Caring Magazine|work=caringmagazine.org|access-date=8 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912071902/http://www.caringmagazine.org/|archive-date=12 September 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
* ''Caring Magazine'', curating conversation around issues of social concern<ref>{{cite web|url=http://caringmagazine.org|title=Caring Magazine|work=caringmagazine.org|access-date=8 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912071902/http://www.caringmagazine.org/|archive-date=12 September 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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* ''[[The War Cry]]'' newspaper, first published in 1879 in the United Kingdom<ref>{{cite web|title=National Publications: War Cry|url=http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_np.nsf/admin/usn/www_usn_np.nsf/vw-dynamic-index/16572722555488108525753D004D6A39?openDocument|publisher=The Salvation Army USA territory|access-date=21 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130213143450/http://salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_np.nsf/admin/usn/www_usn_np.nsf/vw-dynamic-index/16572722555488108525753D004D6A39?openDocument|archive-date=13 February 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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[[File:The War Cry.jpg|thumb|Edition of ''The War Cry'', 6 August 1887]] |
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* ''[[The War Cry]]'' newspaper, first published in 1879 in the United Kingdom<ref>{{cite web|title=National Publications: War Cry|url=http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_np.nsf/admin/usn/www_usn_np.nsf/vw-dynamic-index/16572722555488108525753D004D6A39?openDocument|publisher=The Salvation Army USA territory|accessdate=21 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130213143450/http://salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_np.nsf/admin/usn/www_usn_np.nsf/vw-dynamic-index/16572722555488108525753D004D6A39?openDocument|archive-date=13 February 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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* ''Faith and Friends'' magazine<ref>{{cite web|url=http://salvationist.ca/category/faith-and-friends/|title=Summer of Adventure|work=salvationist.ca|access-date=25 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121029223124/http://salvationist.ca/category/faith-and-friends/|archive-date=29 October 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
* ''Faith and Friends'' magazine<ref>{{cite web|url=http://salvationist.ca/category/faith-and-friends/|title=Summer of Adventure|work=salvationist.ca|access-date=25 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121029223124/http://salvationist.ca/category/faith-and-friends/|archive-date=29 October 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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* ''Salvationist'' magazine<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/Salvationist|title=Salvationist|publisher=United Kingdom and Ireland Territory| |
* ''Salvationist'' magazine<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/Salvationist|title=Salvationist|publisher=United Kingdom and Ireland Territory|access-date=21 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130122012636/http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/Salvationist|archive-date=22 January 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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* ''Word and Deed'' journal<ref>{{cite web|url=http://armyonitsknees.org/?p=1317|title=Word & Deed|publisher=Salvation Army Eastern Territory| |
* ''Word and Deed'' journal<ref>{{cite web|url=http://armyonitsknees.org/?p=1317|title=Word & Deed|publisher=Salvation Army Eastern Territory|access-date=8 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212202411/http://armyonitsknees.org/?p=1317|archive-date=12 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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* ''KidZone'' magazine<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.youngsalvationist.org/|title=Young Salvationist|publisher=Salvation Army| |
* ''KidZone'' magazine<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.youngsalvationist.org/|title=Young Salvationist|publisher=Salvation Army|access-date=8 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218093909/http://www.youngsalvationist.org/|archive-date=18 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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* ''Priority'' magazine<ref>{{cite web|url=http://prioritypeople.org/|title=Priority! Magazine|publisher=Salvation Army USA Eastern Territory| |
* ''Priority'' magazine<ref>{{cite web|url=http://prioritypeople.org/|title=Priority! Magazine|publisher=Salvation Army USA Eastern Territory|access-date=8 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212021636/http://prioritypeople.org/|archive-date=12 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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* ''Pipeline'', The Salvation Army's news, features and opinion magazine AUE (discontinued)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.salvationarmy.org.au/about-us/news-and-stories/publications-and-resources/pipeline-magazine/|title=Pipeline Magazine {{!}} The Salvation Army Australia|last=Australia|first=The Salvation Army|website=www.salvationarmy.org.au|language=en-au|access-date=2 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402111905/https://www.salvationarmy.org.au/about-us/news-and-stories/publications-and-resources/pipeline-magazine/|archive-date=2 April 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
* ''Pipeline'', The Salvation Army's news, features and opinion magazine AUE (discontinued)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.salvationarmy.org.au/about-us/news-and-stories/publications-and-resources/pipeline-magazine/|title=Pipeline Magazine {{!}} The Salvation Army Australia|last=Australia|first=The Salvation Army|website=www.salvationarmy.org.au|language=en-au|access-date=2 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402111905/https://www.salvationarmy.org.au/about-us/news-and-stories/publications-and-resources/pipeline-magazine/|archive-date=2 April 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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* ''Onfire'' The Salvation Army's news, features and opinion magazine AUS (discontinued){{ |
* ''Onfire'' The Salvation Army's news, features and opinion magazine AUS (discontinued)<ref name="others2020">{{cite web |last1=Robertson |first1=Laurie |title=Farewell and thank you to long-serving editor |url=https://others.org.au/news/2020/08/26/farewell-and-thank-you-to-long-serving-editor/ |website=Others |publisher=The Salvation Army |access-date=9 August 2022}}</ref> |
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* ''Others'' The Salvation Army's news, features and opinion magazine (under newly unified Australian Territory)<ref name="others2020"/> |
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* ''Red'' magazine, aimed at youth and Corps Cadets in Aus South (discontinued){{citation needed|date=May 2016}} |
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* ''Others'' The Salvation Army's news, features and opinion magazine (under newly unified Australian Territory){{citation needed|date=May 2016}} |
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* ''Adult And Family Ministries Songbook''<ref>{{cite book | isbn=085412-694-5 | title=adult and family ministries songbook | publisher=Salvationist Publishing & Supplies | year=2002 }}</ref> |
* ''Adult And Family Ministries Songbook''<ref>{{cite book | isbn=085412-694-5 | title=adult and family ministries songbook | publisher=Salvationist Publishing & Supplies | year=2002 }}</ref> |
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* ''Kids Alive'' children's magazine |
* ''Kids Alive'' children's magazine |
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* ''Christian Mission Magazine''<ref>{{cite book | title=Christian Mission Magazine | year=1877 | first=William | last=Booth | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/international-heritage-centre | access-date=13 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713074751/https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/international-heritage-centre | archive-date=13 July 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref> |
* ''Christian Mission Magazine''<ref>{{cite book | title=Christian Mission Magazine | year=1877 | first=William | last=Booth | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/international-heritage-centre | access-date=13 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713074751/https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/international-heritage-centre | archive-date=13 July 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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* ''Christian Mission Hymn Book''<ref>{{cite book | title=Christian Mission Hymn Book | year=1870 | first=William | last=Booth | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/international-heritage-centre | access-date=13 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713074751/https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/international-heritage-centre | archive-date=13 July 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref> |
* ''Christian Mission Hymn Book''<ref>{{cite book | title=Christian Mission Hymn Book | year=1870 | first=William | last=Booth | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/international-heritage-centre | access-date=13 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713074751/https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/international-heritage-centre | archive-date=13 July 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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* ''Revive''<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://issuu.com/salvationarmyihq/docs/revive-april_2018-web_preview | |
* ''Revive''<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://issuu.com/salvationarmyihq/docs/revive-april_2018-web_preview |title=April-June 2018 (issue)| magazine=Revive | publisher=Salvation Army International Womens Ministries|via=[[Issuu]]}}</ref> |
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* ''The Salvation Army Year Book 2018'' |
* ''The Salvation Army Year Book 2018''<ref>{{cite book | isbn=978-1-9111-49-40-8 | title=The Salvation Army Year Book 2018 | year=2017 | publisher=Salvation Books}} |
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* {{cite book | isbn=978-1-911149-41-5 | title=The Salvation Army Year Book 2018 (e-book) | publisher=Salvation Books}}</ref> |
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* ''Songbook of The Salvation Army'' |
* ''Songbook of The Salvation Army''<ref>{{cite book | title=Songbook of the Salvation Army | year=2015| publisher=Salvationist Publishing and Supplies, Limited| isbn=978-0-85412-944-7}} |
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* {{cite book |title=Songbook of the Salvation Army (large print) | year=2015 | publisher=Salvation Army | isbn=978-0-85412-945-4 }}</ref> |
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== Public views == |
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In 1994, the ''[[Chronicle of Philanthropy]]'', an industry publication, released the results of the largest study of charitable and non-profit organisation popularity and credibility. The study showed that The Salvation Army was ranked as the 4th "most popular charity/non-profit in America" of over 100 charities researched, with 47% of Americans over the age of 12 choosing 'Love' and 'Like A Lot' for The Salvation Army.<ref>{{cite journal |date=13 December 1996 |title=The Charities Americans Like Most And Least |journal=The Chronicle of Philanthropy}}</ref> |
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General [[Bramwell Booth]] instituted the ''Order of the Founder'' on 20 August 1917<ref>{{cite book | page=38 | isbn=978-1-911149-40-8 | title=The Salvation Army Year Book 2018}}</ref> and the first awards were made in 1920 to one Soldier and 15 Officers. |
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General [[George Carpenter (Salvation Army)|George Carpenter]] founded the ''Order of Distinguished Auxiliary Service'' in 1941 to express the Salvation Army's gratitude for service given to the organisation by non-Salvationists.<ref>{{cite book | page=39 | isbn=978-1-911149-40-8 | title=The Salvation Army Year Book 2018}}</ref> |
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==Honours== |
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{{Main|Order of the Founder}} |
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General [[Bramwell Booth]] instituted the ''Order of the Founder'' on 20 August 1917.<ref>{{cite book | page=38 | isbn=978-1-911149-40-8 | title=The Salvation Army Year Book 2018| year=2017 | publisher=Salvation Books, The Salvation Army International Headquarters }}</ref> The first awards were made in 1920 to one Soldier and 15 Officers. General [[George Carpenter (Salvation Army)|George Carpenter]] founded the ''Order of Distinguished Auxiliary Service'' in 1941 to express the Salvation Army's gratitude for service given to the organisation by non-Salvationists.<ref>{{cite book | page=39 | isbn=978-1-911149-40-8 | title=The Salvation Army Year Book 2018| year=2017 | publisher=Salvation Books, The Salvation Army International Headquarters }}</ref> |
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==Controversies== |
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=== Criticism by LGBT activists === |
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Because the Salvation Army is a church, Title VII of the U.S. [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] allows it to inquire into people's religious beliefs in its hiring practices. The Salvation Army states that it does not "discriminate against hiring gays and lesbians for the majority of its roughly 55,000 jobs,"<ref name="query.nytimes.com">{{cite web |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9402E7DE1F38F932A25754C0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all |title=Charity Is Told It Must Abide By Antidiscrimination Laws |work=New York Times |date=11 July 2001 | |
Because the Salvation Army is a church, Title VII of the U.S. [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] allows it to inquire into people's religious beliefs in its hiring practices. The Salvation Army states that it does not "discriminate against hiring gays and lesbians for the majority of its roughly 55,000 jobs,"<ref name="query.nytimes.com">{{cite web |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9402E7DE1F38F932A25754C0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all |title=Charity Is Told It Must Abide By Antidiscrimination Laws |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=11 July 2001 |access-date=11 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131105446/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9402E7DE1F38F932A25754C0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all |archive-date=31 January 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> but has historically supported legislation which would allow it to deny employment and federally-funded services to [[LGBT]] individuals.<ref name="Cbsnews.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/10/politics/main300601.shtml |title=Rove Under Fire, Bush Aide's Involvement With Salvation Army Request Eyed |publisher=Cbsnews.com |date=10 July 2001 |access-date=11 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120526105023/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/10/politics/main300601.shtml |archive-date=26 May 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="ReferenceB">{{cite magazine |
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In 1986, The Salvation Army campaigned throughout New Zealand against the [[Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986]], which |
In 1986, The Salvation Army campaigned throughout New Zealand against the [[Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986]], which decriminalised homosexuality.<ref name="Baume2019">{{cite web |last1=Baume |first1=Matt |title=Salvation Army Says They're No Longer Homophobic |url=https://www.out.com/news/2019/11/18/salvation-army-says-theyre-no-longer-homophobic |website=Out |access-date=19 November 2019 |language=en |date=18 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191119060402/https://www.out.com/news/2019/11/18/salvation-army-says-theyre-no-longer-homophobic |archive-date=19 November 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2006, the Army released a statement regretting the ill feelings that persisted following its activity. It stated in part "We do understand though that The Salvation Army's official opposition to the Reform Bill was deeply hurtful to many, and are distressed that ill-feeling still troubles our relationship with segments of the [[LGBT community|gay community]]. We regret any hurt that may remain from that turbulent time and our present hope is to rebuild bridges of understanding and dialogue between our movement and the gay community."<ref>{{cite press release |author=<!--Not stated--> |title=The Salvation Army and Homosexual Law Reform Bill 2005 |url=https://www.salvationarmy.org.nz/sites/default/files/uploads/_archive/TSA_and_Homosexual_Law_Reform_Bill.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.salvationarmy.org.nz/sites/default/files/uploads/_archive/TSA_and_Homosexual_Law_Reform_Bill.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |location=Wellington |publisher=The Salvation Army, New Zealand Fiji & Tonga Territory |date=15 May 2008 |access-date=26 September 2022}}</ref> |
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In 1997 the city of [[San Francisco]] enacted a law requiring all companies doing business with the city government to extend domestic benefits to same-sex partners of employees. |
In 1997, the city of [[San Francisco]] enacted a law requiring all companies doing business with the city government to extend domestic benefits to same-sex partners of employees. In refusing to do so, the Salvation Army declined a US$3.5 million contract.<ref name="GayandLesbianIssues">{{citation |
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| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=sdKvt-GoidYC&pg=PA44}}</ref> In 2001, the Salvation Army pressed the Bush Administration to exempt it and other religious groups from anti-discrimination legislation which it felt infringed on the |
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=sdKvt-GoidYC&pg=PA44}}</ref> In 2001, the Salvation Army pressed the Bush Administration to exempt it and other religious groups from anti-discrimination legislation which it felt infringed on the organisation's religious freedoms. This request was denied, and was sharply rebuked by David Smith, then-spokesperson for the [[Human Rights Campaign]]. "Gays and lesbians are taxpayers, too," said Smith. "Their money should not be used by religious groups to fund discriminatory practices against them."<ref name="query.nytimes.com"/><ref name="wapo2001">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/07/10/charity-cites-bush-help-in-fight-against-hiring-gays/30e536a6-9535-4e1d-812f-180139055546/|title=Charity Cites Bush Help in Fight Against Hiring Gays|last1=Milbank|first1=Dana|author-link1=Dana Milbank|date=10 July 2001|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=26 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201050734/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/07/10/charity-cites-bush-help-in-fight-against-hiring-gays/30e536a6-9535-4e1d-812f-180139055546/|archive-date=1 December 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite episode |title=D.C. Police Want Congressman to Take Lie Detector Test |series=Inside Politics |series-link=Inside Politics |first1=Judy |last1=Woodruff |author-link1=Judy Woodruff |first2=Major |last2=Garrett |author-link2=Major Garrett |network=[[CNN]] |date=10 July 2001|transcript=(transcript) |transcript-url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/10/ip.00.html |quote=A proposed regulation sent to the White House by the Salvation Army would go even further, giving the army and other religious groups the power to discriminate against homosexuals and nonmarried heterosexual couples. Vice President Cheney said the goal was to protect religious groups from having to act against their principles.}}</ref> |
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In February 2000, the Salvation Army in the United Kingdom publicly opposed the repeal of [[Section 28|Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988]], which prevented [[Local government in the United Kingdom|local authorities]] from "intentionally promot[ing] homosexuality".<ref name="Salvation Army Letter to Scottish Parliament">{{cite web |url=http://archive.scottish.parliament.uk/business/committees/historic/x-lg/reports-00/lgr00-06-08.htm#3 |title=Salvation Army Letter to Scottish Parliament |publisher=Archive.scottish.parliament.uk | |
In February 2000, the Salvation Army in the United Kingdom publicly opposed the repeal of [[Section 28|Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988]], which prevented [[Local government in the United Kingdom|local authorities]] from "intentionally promot[ing] homosexuality".<ref name="Salvation Army Letter to Scottish Parliament">{{cite web |url=http://archive.scottish.parliament.uk/business/committees/historic/x-lg/reports-00/lgr00-06-08.htm#3 |title=Salvation Army Letter to Scottish Parliament |publisher=Archive.scottish.parliament.uk |access-date=22 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208031118/http://archive.scottish.parliament.uk/business/committees/historic/x-lg/reports-00/lgr00-06-08.htm#3 |archive-date=8 February 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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The [[The Salvation Army U.S.A. Western Territory|Salvation Army Western Territory]] approved a plan in October 2001 to start offering domestic partnership benefits to employees in same-sex relationships.<ref>{{cite magazine |
The [[The Salvation Army U.S.A. Western Territory|Salvation Army Western Territory]] approved a plan in October 2001 to start offering domestic partnership benefits to employees in same-sex relationships.<ref>{{cite magazine |
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}}</ref> Members of various evangelical Christian interest groups protested the decision. [[Focus on the Family]] founder [[James Dobson]] excoriated the Salvation Army for abandoning its "moral integrity" and urged his radio listeners to bombard the organisation's offices with phone calls and letters. The [[American Family Association]] also accused the Salvation Army of a "monstrous... appeasement of sin" that resulted in a "betrayal of the church". In November 2001 the Salvation Army US-wide rescinded the Western Territory's decision with an announcement that it would only provide benefits coverage for different-sex spouses and dependent children of its employees.{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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In 2004, the Salvation Army said that it would close operations in New York City unless it was exempted from a municipal ordinance requiring them to offer benefits to gay employees' partners. The City Council refused to make the exemption. Mayor [[Michael R. Bloomberg]]'s administration chose not to enforce the ordinance. The administration's right to decline to enforce the ordinance was upheld by the New York State Court of Appeals in 2006.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/24/us/beliefs-salvation-army-hears-dissent-over-gay-views.html|title=Salvation Army Hears Dissent Over Gay Views|last1=Oppenheimer|first1=Mark|date=24 December 2011|newspaper=The New York |
In 2004, the Salvation Army said that it would close operations in New York City unless it was exempted from a municipal ordinance requiring them to offer benefits to gay employees' partners. The City Council refused to make the exemption. Mayor [[Michael R. Bloomberg]]'s administration chose not to enforce the ordinance. The administration's right to decline to enforce the ordinance was upheld by the New York State Court of Appeals in 2006.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/24/us/beliefs-salvation-army-hears-dissent-over-gay-views.html|title=Salvation Army Hears Dissent Over Gay Views|last1=Oppenheimer|first1=Mark|date=24 December 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=21 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160501015418/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/24/us/beliefs-salvation-army-hears-dissent-over-gay-views.html|archive-date=1 May 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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In 2008, a trans woman named Jennifer Gale died outside a |
In 2008, a trans woman named Jennifer Gale died outside a church in [[Austin, Texas]]. A city council member attributed her death to workers at a Salvation Army shelter refusing to house her in the women's quarters.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://relevantmagazine.com/culture/ellie-goulding-will-perform-halftime-show-after-debate-over-salvation-armys-lgbt-stance/|title=Ellie Goulding Will Perform Halftime Show After Debate Over Salvation Army's LGBT Stance|date=18 November 2019|website=RELEVANT Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=20 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191119035814/https://relevantmagazine.com/culture/ellie-goulding-will-perform-halftime-show-after-debate-over-salvation-armys-lgbt-stance/|archive-date=19 November 2019|url-status=dead}} |
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* {{Cite web|url=https://texascivilrightsreview.org/2010/07/21/jennifer-gale-death-caused-by-lack-of-shelter-for-transgender-homeless//|title=Jennifer Gale Death Caused by Lack of Shelter for Transgender Homeless|date=21 July 2010|website=Texas Civil Rights Review|language=en-US|access-date=21 November 2019}}</ref> The city council member later partially retracted their statements, stating "The Salvation Army... do apparently have a policy of non-discrimination and they do not turn trans people away, but I'm not fully sold on their ability to actually understand the issue. If they are not full they will give trans people privacy (maybe they have private quarters of some sort), but if full and they are in an overflow shelter situation, as they were Tuesday night, I am under the impression that they will assign people according to their anatomy."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2008-12-19/gale-rumor-untrue/|title=Gale Rumor Untrue|last1=King|first1=Michael|work=[[The Austin Chronicle]]|language=en-US|access-date=24 November 2019|date=19 December 2008}} |
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Between 2010 and 2013, a "position statement" with regard to "same-sex" "sexual orientations" was published on the Salvation Army's website:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hrc.org/resources/entry/stances-of-faiths-on-lgbt-issues-salvation-army|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111222034712/http://www.hrc.org/resources/entry/stances-of-faiths-on-lgbt-issues-salvation-army|archive-date=22 December 2011|website=Human Rights Campaign (via Wayback Machine)|title=Stances of Faiths on LGBT Issues: Salvation Army|access-date=2019-12-08}} |
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* {{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/24/us/beliefs-salvation-army-hears-dissent-over-gay-views.html|website=The New York Times|title=Beliefs: Salvation Army Hears Dissent Over Gay Views: Sounding Quiet Dissent About a Holiday Perennial|last=Oppenheimer|first=Mark|date=2011-12-24|access-date=2019-12-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170508113441/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/24/us/beliefs-salvation-army-hears-dissent-over-gay-views.html|archive-date=8 May 2017|url-status=live}} |
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* {{Cite web|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/salvation-army/|website=Snopes.com|title=Did a Salvation Army Official Say That Homosexuals "Deserve to Die"?|last=Mikkelson|first=David|date=2013-09-23|access-date=2019-12-08}}</ref><ref name="The_Atlantic">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/06/salvation-army-official-gays-deserve-death/321193/|website=The Atlantic|title=Salvation Army Official: Gays Deserve Death|last=Abad-Santos|first=Alexander|date=2012-06-25|access-date=2019-12-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191121085106/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/06/salvation-army-official-gays-deserve-death/321193/|archive-date=21 November 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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<blockquote>Scripture forbids sexual intimacy between members of the same sex. The Salvation Army believes, therefore, that Christians whose sexual orientation is primarily or exclusively same-sex are called upon to embrace celibacy as a way of life. There is no scriptural support for same-sex unions as equal to, or as an alternative to, heterosexual marriage. |
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Likewise, there is no scriptural support for demeaning or mistreating anyone for reason of his or her sexual orientation. The Salvation Army opposes any such abuse. |
Likewise, there is no scriptural support for demeaning or mistreating anyone for reason of his or her sexual orientation. The Salvation Army opposes any such abuse. |
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In keeping with these convictions, the services of The Salvation Army are available to all who qualify, without regard to sexual orientation. |
In keeping with these convictions, the services of The Salvation Army are available to all who qualify, without regard to sexual orientation.</blockquote> |
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This position statement was deleted by June 2012,<ref name="The_Atlantic" /> replaced by a statement that the organisation's position on homosexuality is under review.<ref name="CTV_News">{{Cite web|url=https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-salvation-army-volunteer-tells-gay-rights-supporters-not-to-donate-1.1081136|website=CTV News|title=B.C. Salvation Army volunteer tells gay rights supporters not to donate|date=2012-12-15|access-date=2019-12-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209053033/https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-salvation-army-volunteer-tells-gay-rights-supporters-not-to-donate-1.1081136|archive-date=9 December 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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On 15 December 2012, in Canada, Andrea Le Good noticed a Salvation Army bell-ringer carrying a sign reading "if you support [[gay rights]]: please do not donate". While the bell-ringer claimed he had permission from the charity to wear the sign, Salvation Army spokeswoman Kyla Ferns said that it had no part in the sign, and that the bell-ringer was pulled away immediately when the charity learned about it.<ref name="CTV_News" /> |
On 15 December 2012, in Canada, Andrea Le Good noticed a Salvation Army bell-ringer carrying a sign reading "if you support [[gay rights]]: please do not donate". While the bell-ringer claimed he had permission from the charity to wear the sign, Salvation Army spokeswoman Kyla Ferns said that it had no part in the sign, and that the bell-ringer was pulled away immediately when the charity learned about it.<ref name="CTV_News" /> |
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In November 2013 it was made known that the Salvation Army was referring LGBT individuals to one of several [[conversion therapy]] groups.<ref name= |
In November 2013, it was made known that the Salvation Army was referring LGBT individuals to one of several [[conversion therapy]] groups.<ref name=exgay>{{cite web|last=Besen|first=Wayne|title=Salvation Army Refers People to Ex-Gay Groups|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/wayne-besen/salvation-army-refers-people-to-ex-gay-groups_b_4344605.html|website=[[Huffington Post]]|location=New York City|date=26 November 2013|access-date=9 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209034342/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wayne-besen/salvation-army-refers-people-to-ex-gay-groups_b_4344605.html|archive-date=9 December 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> As a response, the Salvation Army removed links to the conversion groups from their website.<ref name=Brydum>{{cite web | url=http://www.advocate.com/business/2013/11/27/salvation-army-does-not-consider-homosexual-orientation-sin | title=Salvation Army 'Does Not Consider Homosexual Orientation a Sin' | work=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]] | date=27 November 2013 | access-date=11 December 2013 | author=Brydum, Sunnivie | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131210190457/http://www.advocate.com/business/2013/11/27/salvation-army-does-not-consider-homosexual-orientation-sin | archive-date=10 December 2013 | url-status=live }}</ref> |
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In 2016, The Salvation Army withdrew support for an Australian safe schools program that focused on LGBT students,<ref name="Baume2019"/> stating that "the provision of a government approved anti-bullying program needs to consider all high risk student groups."<ref>{{cite web |title=Salvation Army Announces National Position on Safe Schools |url=https://www.salvationarmy.org.au/about-us/news-and-stories/media-newsroom/salvation-army-announces-national-position-on-safe-schools/ |website=The Salvation Army Australia | |
In 2016, The Salvation Army withdrew support for an Australian safe schools program that focused on LGBT students,<ref name="Baume2019"/> stating that "the provision of a government approved anti-bullying program needs to consider all high risk student groups."<ref>{{cite web |title=Salvation Army Announces National Position on Safe Schools |url=https://www.salvationarmy.org.au/about-us/news-and-stories/media-newsroom/salvation-army-announces-national-position-on-safe-schools/ |website=The Salvation Army Australia |access-date=19 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190630121403/http://www.salvationarmy.org.au/about-us/news-and-stories/media-newsroom/salvation-army-announces-national-position-on-safe-schools/ |archive-date=30 June 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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In November 2019, according to ''[[The Dallas Morning News]]'', "singer [[Ellie Goulding]] |
In November 2019, according to ''[[The Dallas Morning News]]'', "singer [[Ellie Goulding]]... threaten[ed] to cancel her performance at the [[Dallas Cowboys|Cowboys]]' [[Thanksgiving]] halftime show" out of concern for "the LGBTQ community" following negative responses to an Instagram post that she made promoting the organisation:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/B4xM9fAjHJx/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/B4xM9fAjHJx |archive-date=2021-12-23 |url-access=subscription|website=Instagram|title=elliegoulding on Instagram: "Ok so maybe hairnet not my strongest look but thank you @salvationarmyus for having us in New York. As you know, I have spent a lot of time..."|date=2019-11-12|access-date=2019-12-08}}{{cbignore}} |
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* {{Cite web|url=https://www.metroweekly.com/2019/12/lgbtq-activists-attack-pete-buttigieg-for-previously-volunteering-with-the-salvation-army/|website=Metro Weekly|title=LGBTQ activists attack Pete Buttigieg for previously volunteering with the Salvation Army|date=2019-12-06|access-date=2019-12-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191207125052/https://www.metroweekly.com/2019/12/lgbtq-activists-attack-pete-buttigieg-for-previously-volunteering-with-the-salvation-army/|archive-date=7 December 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="The_Dallas_Morning_News">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/music/2019/11/12/ellie-goulding-threatens-to-cancel-performance-during-cowboys-thanksgiving-halftime-show/|website=The Dallas Morning News|title=Ellie Goulding threatens to cancel her Cowboys Thanksgiving halftime show over Salvation Army concerns|date=2019-11-12|access-date=2019-12-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191123071436/https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/music/2019/11/12/ellie-goulding-threatens-to-cancel-performance-during-cowboys-thanksgiving-halftime-show/|archive-date=23 November 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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<blockquote>"Upon researching this, I have reached out to The Salvation Army and said that I would have no choice but to pull out unless they very quickly make a solid, committed pledge or donation to the LGBTQ community," she wrote. "I am a committed philanthropist as you probably know, and my heart has always been in helping the homeless, but supporting an anti-LGBTQ charity is clearly not something I would ever intentionally do. Thank you for drawing my attention to this."</blockquote> |
<blockquote>"Upon researching this, I have reached out to The Salvation Army and said that I would have no choice but to pull out unless they very quickly make a solid, committed pledge or donation to the LGBTQ community," she wrote. "I am a committed philanthropist as you probably know, and my heart has always been in helping the homeless, but supporting an anti-LGBTQ charity is clearly not something I would ever intentionally do. Thank you for drawing my attention to this."</blockquote> |
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The show "serves as the kickoff for the Salvation Army's yearly Red Kettle Campaign". Goulding later opted to perform.<ref name="The_Dallas_Morning_News" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/13/entertainment/ellie-goulding-cowboys-salvation-army-trnd/index.html|website=CNN|title=Ellie Goulding will perform at the Dallas Cowboys' Thanksgiving show despite threats to cancel|date=2019-11-15|access-date=2019-12-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191117103426/https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/13/entertainment/ellie-goulding-cowboys-salvation-army-trnd/index.html|archive-date=17 November 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> |
The show "serves as the kickoff for the Salvation Army's yearly Red Kettle Campaign". Goulding later opted to perform.<ref name="The_Dallas_Morning_News" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/13/entertainment/ellie-goulding-cowboys-salvation-army-trnd/index.html|website=CNN|title=Ellie Goulding will perform at the Dallas Cowboys' Thanksgiving show despite threats to cancel|date=2019-11-15|access-date=2019-12-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191117103426/https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/13/entertainment/ellie-goulding-cowboys-salvation-army-trnd/index.html|archive-date=17 November 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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In 2019, 2020, and 2021, The Salvation Army continued to be criticized in publications like ''[[Vox (website)|Vox]]'', ''[[Forbes]]'', and ''[[Out (magazine)|Out]]'', for homophobic and transphobic views and practices expressed by its leaders and policies, such as in public statements and lobbying.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Valle|first=Gaby Del|date=2019-12-16|title=The backlash against the Salvation Army, explained|url=https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/12/16/21003560/salvation-army-anti-lgbtq-controversies-donations|access-date=2021-05-17|website=Vox|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Ennis|first=Dawn|title=The Salvation Army Wants You To Believe They've Changed|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2020/11/27/the-salvation-army-wants-you-to-believe-theyve-changed/|access-date=2021-05-17|website=Forbes|language=en}}</ref> |
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Despite documented events of Salvation Army's volunteers and their views, the organisation has issued an LGBT Statement as a response. The statement does not address any documented news events of discrimination and claims to debunk these events as urban myth.<ref name=exgay>{{cite web|last=Besen|first=Wayne|title=Salvation Army Refers People to Ex-Gay Groups|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/wayne-besen/salvation-army-refers-people-to-ex-gay-groups_b_4344605.html|website=[[Huffington Post]]|publisher=[[Huffington Post Media Group]]|location=New York City|date=26 November 2013|access-date=9 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209034342/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wayne-besen/salvation-army-refers-people-to-ex-gay-groups_b_4344605.html|archive-date=9 December 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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A positional statement on the Salvation Army |
A positional statement on the Salvation Army U.K. and Ireland site stated (but has since been taken down): |
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{{blockquote|The Salvation Army teaches that sexual acts should take place only in a monogamous heterosexual marriage, believing that this reflects God's intentions for sexual behaviour and provides the best environment for raising children.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/PSHumanSexuality |title=Human sexuality |access-date=27 November 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202223458/http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/PSHumanSexuality |archive-date=2 December 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>}} |
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The positional statement is, however, intended explicitly for members of the Salvation Army<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/masic|title=Church & community section – The Salvation Army|work=salvationarmy.org.uk|access-date=9 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206092145/http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/masic|archive-date=6 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the Salvation Army mission statement as of 2013 states: |
The positional statement is, however, intended explicitly for members of the Salvation Army<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/masic|title=Church & community section – The Salvation Army|work=salvationarmy.org.uk|access-date=9 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206092145/http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/masic|archive-date=6 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the Salvation Army mission statement as of 2013 states: |
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{{blockquote|The Salvation Army stands against [[homophobia]], which victimises people and can reinforce feelings of alienation, loneliness and despair. We want to be an inclusive church community where members of the LGBT community find welcome and the encouragement to develop their relationship with God... Our international mission statement is very clear on this point when it says we will "meet human needs in [Jesus'] name without discrimination". Anyone who comes through our doors will be welcomed with love and service, based on their need and our capacity to provide.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/Non-Discrimination|title=Inclusion – The Salvation Army|work=salvationarmy.org.uk|access-date=9 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131222162527/http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/Non-Discrimination|archive-date=22 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>}} |
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{{As of|November 2013}}, activists were still calling on the Salvation Army to change its stance on LGBT issues, citing ongoing discrimination.<ref name=Hyman1>{{cite news|last=Hyman|first=Jamie|title=Watermark tradition: Boycotting the bell-ringers|url=http://www.watermarkonline.com/2013/11/20/watermark-tradition-boycotting-the-bell-ringers/|access-date=15 February 2014|newspaper=Watermark|date=20 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403021750/http://www.watermarkonline.com/2013/11/20/watermark-tradition-boycotting-the-bell-ringers/|archive-date=3 April 2014|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Chatel1>{{cite news|last=Chatel|first=Amanda|title=7 Companies That Don't Support Gay Rights|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/16/anti-gay-companies_n_4110344.html|access-date=15 February 2014|newspaper=Huffington Post|date=16 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140515144737/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/16/anti-gay-companies_n_4110344.html|archive-date=15 May 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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{{As of|April 2018}}, the "Inclusion" page on the official U.K. website stated that the Salvation Army stands against homophobia and does not permit discrimination in its employment practices or delivery of care.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/inclusion | title=Inclusion, the Salvation Army | access-date=7 April 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705122836/https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/inclusion | archive-date=5 July 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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{{As of|2018}}, the U.S.A. Central Territory website explicitly states that it serves and welcomes the LGBT community.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://centralusa.salvationarmy.org/usc/lgbt_discrimination_debunking_the_myth/ | title=LGBT Discrimination: Debunking the myth | access-date=22 September 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923052227/https://centralusa.salvationarmy.org/usc/lgbt_discrimination_debunking_the_myth/ | archive-date=23 September 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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On the website of its U.S.A. division, the organisation currently maintains an informative/promotional document titled "The LGBTQ Community and The Salvation Army" which states (among other things) that it is "committed to serving the LGBTQ community"; "[w]hen a transgender person seeks help from us, we serve them in the same manner as any other person seeking assistance"; it "is an [[Equal Opportunity Employer]]" with regard to "sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression" (et al.); and that it "provide[s] benefits to the spouses of employees in same-sex marriages".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/the-lgbtq-community-and-the-salvation-army/|website=The Salvation Army USA|title=The LGBTQ Community and The Salvation Army|access-date=2019-12-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191124235317/https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/the-lgbtq-community-and-the-salvation-army/|archive-date=24 November 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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===Calgary Toy Incident=== |
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During the 2010 Christmas season, a chapter of the Salvation Army in Calgary, Alberta, refused to accept toys based on the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' and [[Twilight (novel series)|''Twilight'']] franchises because it viewed them as promoting black magic.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2010-12-09 |title=Calgary Sally Ann says 'no thanks' to Harry Potter |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-sally-ann-says-no-thanks-to-harry-potter-1.918305 |access-date=2024-12-03 |work=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]}}</ref> |
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During the 2010 Christmas season, the Salvation Army in Calgary, Alberta, refused to accept toys based on the [[Harry Potter]] and [[Twilight (novel series)|Twilight]] franchises because of a perceived conflict with the organisation's religious principles. One volunteer claimed that the toys were destroyed instead of being given to other agencies. The volunteer also criticised the Salvation Army for accepting violence-themed toys such as plastic rifles while not accepting Harry Potter or Twilight toys. A Salvation Army captain said that the toys were given to other organisations, not disposed of.<ref>{{cite web |author=Bill Kaufmann, QMI Agency |url=http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/12/08/16478011.html |title=Sally Ann bans Harry Potter and Twilight toys |work=Toronto Sun |date=8 December 2010 |accessdate=11 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120123094501/http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/12/08/16478011.html |archive-date=23 January 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> This policy is however, not universal, as the [[Wetaskiwin]] corps of the Salvation Army has accepted Harry Potter toys. One captain called the series "a classic story of good winning over evil".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wetaskiwintimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2891380 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718034838/http://www.wetaskiwintimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2891380 |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 July 2011 |title=Salvation Army welcomes Harry Potter toys – Wetaskiwin Times Advertiser – Alberta, CA |publisher=Wetaskiwintimes.com |accessdate=11 April 2012 }}</ref> |
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===Proselytising during government-funded social service in New York=== |
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Also during the 2010 Christmas season, the Salvation Army in Vancouver, BC, came under fire from advocacy group Families Against Crime & Trauma (FACT) for a program that provided goodie bags to federal inmates for Christmas by playing Santa to incarcerated criminals. The advocacy group called on the public to cease donations to the Salvation Army. Families Against Crime & Trauma takes a hardline position against criminal rehabilitation and objected to the gifts, however small, as undeserved rewards that should instead go to the victims of crime and their families. The Salvation Army responded that their prisoner visitation program was established over a century ago and that they provided these particular services as contractors to the federal and provincial government, as such no charitable donations were spent on the program.<ref>[http://bc.ctvnews.ca/sally-ann-inmate-present-program-slammed-1.587138 Sally Ann inmate present program slammed] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826155034/http://bc.ctvnews.ca/sally-ann-inmate-present-program-slammed-1.587138 |date=26 August 2016 }} – CTV British Columbia. 17 December 2010.</ref> |
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In 2004, the Salvation Army's New York division was named in a lawsuit filed by 18 current and former employees of its social service arm, claiming that the organisation asked about the religious and sexual habits of employees in programs funded by local and state government. One member claimed the organisation forced them to agree "to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ".<ref>{{cite news|title=Suit Claims Group's Staff Is Pressured on Religion|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/25/nyregion/25salvation.html|newspaper=New York Times|date=25 February 2004|access-date=13 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723112156/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/25/nyregion/25salvation.html|archive-date=23 July 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Proselytising or otherwise pursuing religious motives in a government-funded program is generally considered a violation of the [[Establishment Clause]] of the U.S. Constitution. While the employment-discrimination portion of the lawsuit was dismissed in 2005, government agencies agreed in a 2010 settlement to set up monitoring systems to ensure that the Army did not violate [[Separation of church and state|church–state separation]] in its publicly funded projects. The organisation did not dispute allegations that nine-year-olds in a city-funded foster care program were put through a "confirmation-like" ceremony, where they were given Bibles and prayed over.<ref>{{cite news|last=Newman|first=Andy|title=Settlement in Salvation Army Suit on Proselytizing|url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/settlement-in-salvation-army-suit-on-proselytizing/?_r=0|newspaper=New York Times|date=17 February 2010|access-date=7 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222183228/http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/settlement-in-salvation-army-suit-on-proselytizing/?_r=0|archive-date=22 February 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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===Australian sex abuse cases=== |
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{{see also|Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse#Salvation Army}} |
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In 2004, the Salvation Army's New York division was named in a lawsuit filed by 18 current and former employees of its social service arm, claiming that the organisation asked about the religious and sexual habits of employees in programs funded by local and state government. One member claimed the organisation forced them to agree "to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ".<ref>{{cite news|title=Suit Claims Group's Staff Is Pressured on Religion|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/25/nyregion/25salvation.html|newspaper=New York Times|date=25 February 2004|access-date=13 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723112156/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/25/nyregion/25salvation.html|archive-date=23 July 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Proselytising or otherwise pursuing religious motives in a government-funded program is generally considered a violation of the [[Establishment Clause]] of the US Constitution. While the employment-discrimination portion of the lawsuit was dismissed in 2005, government agencies agreed in a 2010 settlement to set up monitoring systems to ensure that the Army did not violate [[Separation of church and state|church–state separation]] in its publicly funded projects. The organisation did not dispute allegations that nine-year-olds in a city-funded foster care program were put through a "confirmation-like" ceremony, where they were given Bibles and prayed over.<ref>{{cite news|last=Newman|first=Andy|title=Settlement in Salvation Army Suit on Proselytizing|url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/settlement-in-salvation-army-suit-on-proselytizing/?_r=0|newspaper=New York Times|date=17 February 2010|access-date=7 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222183228/http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/settlement-in-salvation-army-suit-on-proselytizing/?_r=0|archive-date=22 February 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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From the 1940s to the 1980s the Salvation Army in Australia sheltered approximately 30,000 children. In 2006 the Australian division of the Salvation Army acknowledged that [[sexual abuse]] may have occurred during this time and issued an apology. In it, the Army explicitly rejected a claim, made by a party unnamed in the apology, that there were as many as 500 potential claimants.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salvationarmy.org.au/media/statements/2006_child_abuse.asp|title=The Salvation Army's response to child abuse allegations|publisher=The Salvation Army|date=1 August 2006|access-date=30 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060819030816/http://www.salvationarmy.org.au/media/statements/2006_child_abuse.asp|archive-date=19 August 2006}}</ref> |
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In 2013 it was reported that private settlements totalling {{AUD|15.5 million}} had been made in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] relating to 474 abuse cases; a Salvation Army spokesman said that "This should not have happened and this was a breach of the trust placed in us" and that they were "deeply sorry" whilst claiming that the abuse was "the result of individuals and not a culture within the organisation".<ref>{{cite news|last=Gannon|first=Genevieve|title=Salvo abuse claims dealt with privately|url=http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/salvo-abuse-claims-dealt-with-privately-20130411-2hn4m.html|access-date=30 May 2013|newspaper=The Age|date=11 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130413033324/http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/salvo-abuse-claims-dealt-with-privately-20130411-2hn4m.html|archive-date=13 April 2013|url-status=live}} |
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* {{cite news|last=Rintoul|first=Stuart|title='Ashamed' Salvation Army paid $15m to child sex abuse victims, inquiry told|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/ashamed-salvation-army-paid-15m-to-child-sex-abuse-victims-inquiry-told/story-fngburq5-1226618279228|access-date=30 May 2013|newspaper=The Australian|date=11 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511232610/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/ashamed-salvation-army-paid-15m-to-child-sex-abuse-victims-inquiry-told/story-fngburq5-1226618279228|archive-date=11 May 2013|url-status=live}} |
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* {{cite web|title=The Salvation Army appearance before the Victorian Parliamentary Committee's Inquiry into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse|url=http://salvos.org.au/about-us/media-centre/documents/MRVictorianParliamentaryCommitteeInquiry.pdf|publisher=The Salvation Army|access-date=31 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130828082009/http://salvos.org.au/about-us/media-centre/documents/MRVictorianParliamentaryCommitteeInquiry.pdf|archive-date=28 August 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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From the 1940s to the 1980s the Salvation Army in Australia sheltered approximately 30,000 children. In 2006 the Australian division of the Salvation Army acknowledged that [[sexual abuse]] may have occurred during this time and issued an apology. In it, the Army explicitly rejected a claim, made by a party unnamed in the apology, that there were as many as 500 potential claimants.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salvationarmy.org.au/media/statements/2006_child_abuse.asp|title=The Salvation Army's response to child abuse allegations|publisher=The Salvation Army|date=1 August 2006|accessdate=30 May 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060819030816/http://www.salvationarmy.org.au/media/statements/2006_child_abuse.asp|archivedate=19 August 2006}}</ref> |
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In 2014, the [[Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse]], a [[Royal Commission|royal commission of inquiry]] initiated in 2013 by the [[Australian Government]] and supported by all of its [[States and territories of Australia|state]] governments,<ref name="letterspatent">{{cite web|url=http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/our-work/terms-of-reference/|title=Letters Patent|work=Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse|access-date=12 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130822011715/http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/our-work/terms-of-reference/|archive-date=22 August 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> began investigating abuse cases at the Alkira Salvation Army Home for Boys at {{QLDcity|Indooroopilly}}; the Riverview Training Farm (also known as Endeavour Training Farm) at {{QLDcity|Riverview}}{{spaced endash}}both in [[Queensland]]; the Bexley Boys' Home at {{NSWcity|Bexley}}; and the Gill Memorial Home at {{NSWcity|Goulburn}}{{spaced endash}}both in [[New South Wales]]. The investigation also examined the Salvation Army's processes in investigating, disciplining, removing, and transferring anyone accused of or found to have engaged in child sexual abuse in these homes.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.goulburnpost.com.au/story/2067793/royal-commission-torture-and-rape-at-gill-memorial/?cs=180 |newspaper=[[List of newspapers in New South Wales#List of newspapers in New South Wales (G)|Goulburn Post]] |title=Royal Commission: Torture and rape at Gill Memorial |date=5 February 2014 |author=Thrower, Louise |access-date=5 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204224610/http://www.goulburnpost.com.au/story/2067793/royal-commission-torture-and-rape-at-gill-memorial/?cs=180 |archive-date=4 February 2014 |url-status=dead }} |
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In 2013 it was reported that private settlements totalling A$15.5 million had been made in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] relating to 474 abuse cases; a Salvation Army spokesman said that "This should not have happened and this was a breach of the trust placed in us" and that they were "deeply sorry" whilst claiming that the abuse was "the result of individuals and not a culture within the organization".<ref>{{cite news|last=Gannon|first=Genevieve|title=Salvo abuse claims dealt with privately|url=http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/salvo-abuse-claims-dealt-with-privately-20130411-2hn4m.html|accessdate=30 May 2013|newspaper=The Age|date=11 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130413033324/http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/salvo-abuse-claims-dealt-with-privately-20130411-2hn4m.html|archive-date=13 April 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Rintoul|first=Stuart|title='Ashamed' Salvation Army paid $15m to child sex abuse victims, inquiry told|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/ashamed-salvation-army-paid-15m-to-child-sex-abuse-victims-inquiry-told/story-fngburq5-1226618279228|accessdate=30 May 2013|newspaper=The Australian|date=11 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511232610/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/ashamed-salvation-army-paid-15m-to-child-sex-abuse-victims-inquiry-told/story-fngburq5-1226618279228|archive-date=11 May 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Salvation Army appearance before the Victorian Parliamentary Committee's Inquiry into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse|url=http://salvos.org.au/about-us/media-centre/documents/MRVictorianParliamentaryCommitteeInquiry.pdf|publisher=The Salvation Army|accessdate=31 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130828082009/http://salvos.org.au/about-us/media-centre/documents/MRVictorianParliamentaryCommitteeInquiry.pdf|archive-date=28 August 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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* {{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-30/salvation-army-suspends-officer-over-sexual-abuse-inquiry/5228914 |author=Oriti, Thomas |title=Salvation Army suspends officer John McIver over child sexual abuse royal commission |date=31 January 2014 |work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |location=Australia |access-date=5 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140205025526/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-30/salvation-army-suspends-officer-over-sexual-abuse-inquiry/5228914 |archive-date=5 February 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="ABCNews2014-02-06">{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-30/boys-rented-out-for-abuse-at-salvos-boys-home/5227854 |author=Oriti, Thomas |title=Boys 'rented out' for abuse at Salvation Army boys' home at Bexley in Sydney's south |date=6 February 2014 |work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |location=Australia |access-date=15 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150521154243/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-30/boys-rented-out-for-abuse-at-salvos-boys-home/5227854 |archive-date=21 May 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=case5>{{cite web |url=http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/a0bd6592-0036-42eb-9c33-62c7ad8312b1/case-study-5,-january-2014,-sydney |title=Case Study 5, January 2014, Sydney |publisher=Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse |date=2014 |access-date=16 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527054235/http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/a0bd6592-0036-42eb-9c33-62c7ad8312b1/case-study-5,-january-2014,-sydney |archive-date=27 May 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On 27 March 2014, the Royal Commission began investigating the handling by the Salvation Army (Eastern Territory) of claims of child sexual abuse between 1993 and 2014.<ref name="ABCPM2014-02-03">{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-03/salvation-army-whistleblowers-dismissed-for-reporting-abuse/5235430 |title=Salvation Army whistleblowers dismissed from Indooroopilly, Qld, home for reporting alleged abuse, royal commission hears |work=[[PM (ABC Radio)|PM]] |author1=Oriti, Thomas |author2=Bourke, Emily |date=3 February 2014 |publisher=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |location=Australia |access-date=4 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204070812/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-03/salvation-army-whistleblowers-dismissed-for-reporting-abuse/5235430 |archive-date=4 February 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="ABCNews2014-02-04">{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-04/lawyers-seek-information-about-claims-boys-were-flown-interstat/5237482 |author=Oriti, Thomas |title=Salvation Army officers allegedly moved interstate if accused of child sex abuse |date=4 February 2014 |work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |location=Australia |access-date=5 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204132930/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-04/lawyers-seek-information-about-claims-boys-were-flown-interstat/5237482 |archive-date=4 February 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=case10>{{cite web |url=http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/6a3d5984-f16c-478e-8e1a-cb5b82541637/case-study-10,-march-2014,-sydney |title=Case Study 10, March 2014, Sydney |publisher=Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse |date=2014 |access-date=16 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150423015106/http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/6a3d5984-f16c-478e-8e1a-cb5b82541637/case-study-10,-march-2014,-sydney |archive-date=23 April 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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On 28 January 2014, the [[Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse]], a [[Royal Commission|royal commission of inquiry]] initiated in 2013 by the [[Australian Government]] and supported by all of its [[States and territories of Australia|state]] governments,<ref name="letterspatent">{{cite web|url=http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/our-work/terms-of-reference/|title=Letters Patent|work=Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse|accessdate=12 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130822011715/http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/our-work/terms-of-reference/|archive-date=22 August 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> began an investigation into abuse cases at the Alkira Salvation Army Home for Boys at {{QLDcity|Indooroopilly}}; the Riverview Training Farm (also known as Endeavour Training Farm) at {{QLDcity|Riverview}}{{spaced endash}} both in [[Queensland]]; the Bexley Boys' Home at {{NSWcity|Bexley}}; and the Gill Memorial Home at {{NSWcity|Goulburn}}{{spaced endash}} both in [[New South Wales]]. The investigation also examined the Salvation Army's processes in investigating, disciplining, removing and transferring anyone accused of or found to have engaged in child sexual abuse in these homes.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.goulburnpost.com.au/story/2067793/royal-commission-torture-and-rape-at-gill-memorial/?cs=180 |newspaper=[[List of newspapers in New South Wales#List of newspapers in New South Wales (G)|Goulburn Post]] |title=Royal Commission: Torture and rape at Gill Memorial |date=5 February 2014 |author=Thrower, Louise |accessdate=5 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204224610/http://www.goulburnpost.com.au/story/2067793/royal-commission-torture-and-rape-at-gill-memorial/?cs=180 |archive-date=4 February 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-30/salvation-army-suspends-officer-over-sexual-abuse-inquiry/5228914 |author=Oriti, Thomas |title=Salvation Army suspends officer John McIver over child sexual abuse royal commission |date=31 January 2014 |work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |location=Australia |accessdate=5 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140205025526/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-30/salvation-army-suspends-officer-over-sexual-abuse-inquiry/5228914 |archive-date=5 February 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="ABCNews2014-02-06">{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-30/boys-rented-out-for-abuse-at-salvos-boys-home/5227854 |author=Oriti, Thomas |title=Boys 'rented out' for abuse at Salvation Army boys' home at Bexley in Sydney's south |date=6 February 2014 |work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |location=Australia |accessdate=15 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150521154243/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-30/boys-rented-out-for-abuse-at-salvos-boys-home/5227854 |archive-date=21 May 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=case5>{{cite web |url=http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/a0bd6592-0036-42eb-9c33-62c7ad8312b1/case-study-5,-january-2014,-sydney |title=Case Study 5, January 2014, Sydney |publisher=Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse |date=2014 |accessdate=16 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527054235/http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/a0bd6592-0036-42eb-9c33-62c7ad8312b1/case-study-5,-january-2014,-sydney |archive-date=27 May 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On 27 March 2014, the Royal Commission began an investigation into the handling by the Salvation Army (Eastern Territory) of claims of child sexual abuse between 1993 and 2014.<ref name="ABCPM2014-02-03">{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-03/salvation-army-whistleblowers-dismissed-for-reporting-abuse/5235430 |title=Salvation Army whistleblowers dismissed from Indooroopilly, Qld, home for reporting alleged abuse, royal commission hears |work=[[PM (ABC Radio)|PM]] |author1=Oriti, Thomas |author2=Bourke, Emily |date=3 February 2014 |publisher=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |location=Australia |accessdate=4 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204070812/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-03/salvation-army-whistleblowers-dismissed-for-reporting-abuse/5235430 |archive-date=4 February 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="ABCNews2014-02-04">{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-04/lawyers-seek-information-about-claims-boys-were-flown-interstat/5237482 |author=Oriti, Thomas |title=Salvation Army officers allegedly moved interstate if accused of child sex abuse |date=4 February 2014 |work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |location=Australia |accessdate=5 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204132930/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-04/lawyers-seek-information-about-claims-boys-were-flown-interstat/5237482 |archive-date=4 February 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=case10>{{cite web |url=http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/6a3d5984-f16c-478e-8e1a-cb5b82541637/case-study-10,-march-2014,-sydney |title=Case Study 10, March 2014, Sydney |publisher=Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse |date=2014 |accessdate=16 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150423015106/http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/case-study/6a3d5984-f16c-478e-8e1a-cb5b82541637/case-study-10,-march-2014,-sydney |archive-date=23 April 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |
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In November 2021, The Salvation Army released a guidance pamphlet titled "Let's Talk About Racism" which encouraged its members to "lament, repent and apologize for biases or racist ideologies held and actions committed."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Did Salvation Army Ask Followers To Repent and Apologize for Racism?|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/salvation-army-racism-apologies/|access-date=2021-12-08|website=Snopes.com|date=2 December 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref> According to [[Fox News]], this was interpreted by critics as an endorsement of [[critical race theory]], during a time of broader public controversy around CRT in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Miller|first=Andrew|date=2021-11-30|title=Salvation Army pulls controversial racism guide amid public outcry|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/salvation-army-ditches-pulls-controversial-racism-guide-amid-public-outcry|access-date=2021-12-08|website=Fox News|language=en-US}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|certain=yes|date=July 2023|reason=See WP:FOXNEWSPOLITICS}} In response, The Salvation Army called the accusations "sensationalist" and "simply not true", and that they had never told people to "apologize for the color of their skin" or "abandoned its Biblical beliefs".<ref>{{cite news |title='That Was Never Our Intention': The Salvation Army Denies Reports That Its Guidebook Asks White Donors to Apologize for Racism |url=https://news.yahoo.com/never-intention-salvation-army-denies-190000353.html |work=news.yahoo.com}}</ref> After the continued backlash they retracted the document and again stated that they do not endorse any ideology or belief system other than Christianity and reject the idea that "America is an inherently racist society".<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Salvation Army's Response to False Claims on the Topic of Racism {{!}} The Salvation Army USA|url=https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/story/the-salvation-armys-response-to-false-claims-on-the-topic-of-racism/|access-date=2021-12-08|website=www.salvationarmyusa.org|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818042721/https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/story/the-salvation-armys-response-to-false-claims-on-the-topic-of-racism/|archive-date=18 August 2022}}</ref> The anti-CRT group Color Us United promised to "continue its battle" with The Salvation Army despite these statements.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kellner |first1=Mark A. |title=Advocacy group accuses Salvation Army of 'covering up' embrace of critical race theory |url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/1/advocacy-group-accuses-salvation-army-covering-emb/ |access-date=18 December 2021 |work=The Washington Times |date=1 December 2021}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=July 2023|reason=Per Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources, The Washington Times is probably suitable for its mundane political coverage, although better sources should be preferred when available}} |
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===Rogue landlord allegations=== |
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The Royal Commission published a case study report on the findings and recommendations for one of the above-mentioned case studies.<ref name=casereport5>{{cite book|url=http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/getattachment/52f3f203-2774-4cb9-9a48-b99ae36cf68f/Report-of-Case-Study-no-5-Response-of-The-Salvatio |title=Report of Case Study No. 5: Response of The Salvation Army to child sexual abuse at its boys homes in New South Wales and Queensland |publisher=Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse |date=January 2015 |accessdate=16 May 2015 |isbn=978-1-925289-06-0 |location=Sydney |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518094835/http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/getattachment/52f3f203-2774-4cb9-9a48-b99ae36cf68f/Report-of-Case-Study-no-5-Response-of-The-Salvatio |archivedate=18 May 2015 }}</ref> |
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In April 2022 an investigation by ''[[The Guardian]]'' and [[ITV News|ITV news]] found serious problems at properties owned and rented out by the Salvation Army in [[Hadleigh, Essex|Hadleigh]], Essex. They found that tenants had been exposed to "serious" hazards for at least seven years and that many of the properties were not in line with fire regulations. A 2014 survey, commissioned by the Salvation Army, found damp and breaches of fire regulations. Residents of one property reported a hole in their roof to Salvation Army's agent six years prior to the newspaper's investigation. A resident of one house said, "There's the damp problem, obviously the roof, because we need to keep the heat in the house not having it blowing up out the house. The windows and doors don't fit properly...(I) have to have the heating on 24 hours a day to keep the house warm (in the winter)." The managing director of the environmental health consultancy Building Forensics, Jeff Charlton, found mould on a wall next to the bed of an asthmatic child in another home.{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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Alan Read, the Salvation Army's managing director, met with residents in 2018 and issued an apology for neglecting them. Many of the 40 residents at the meeting were left with the impression they could be evicted if the Salvation Army could not afford to carry out repairs.{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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===Unpaid labour in the UK=== |
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The local authority, [[Castle Point|Castle Point Borough Council]], wrote to the Salvation Army in March 2019 warning it would take legal action over the condition of the properties. In 2022 The Guardian and ITV News found conditions within the homes had not improved since the Castle Point Borough Council's warning in 2019. The behaviour of the Salvation Army was described as a "sordid mess" by an environmental officer at the Council. Category one and category two hazards were found by the Council's environmental department. Category one hazards include risks of "death, permanent paralysis, permanent loss of consciousness, loss of a limb or serious fracture".{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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The Salvation Army has been criticized for making use of the UK Government's [[Workfare in the United Kingdom|workfare]] schemes.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-3b5c-Salvation-Army-defends-its-use-of-forced-unpaid-labour#.WFahivmLTIU|title=Salvation Army defends its use of forced unpaid labour|last=Society|first=Peoples Printing Press|access-date=18 December 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220172513/https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-3b5c-Salvation-Army-defends-its-use-of-forced-unpaid-labour#.WFahivmLTIU|archivedate=20 December 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.boycottworkfare.org/?page_id=16|title=Workfare providers|date=31 March 2011|newspaper=Boycott Workfare|access-date=18 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231130834/http://www.boycottworkfare.org/?page_id=16|archive-date=31 December 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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In April 2022 the local authority issued [[Housing Act 2004|improvement notices]] to the Salvation Army, which was criticised for not carrying out repairs at the same time it was spending an estimated £32 million on a new territorial headquarters building in Southwark, London. The Salvation Army said the new territorial headquarters was funded by the sale of its old headquarters, not by donations or rental income from tenants.{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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== In films == |
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The Salvation Army is featured in many popular movies such as ''[[Seabiscuit (film)|Seabiscuit]]'' and ''[[Major Barbara (film)|Major Barbara]]'',<ref>Shaw, Bernard und Baziyan, Vitaly. 2-in-1: English-German. Major Barbara & Majorin Barbara. New York, 2020, {{ISBN|979-8692881076}}</ref> based on [[George Bernard Shaw]]’s play in which he also depicted the [[military-industrial]] complex 56 years before [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] and defined the intellectual [[oligarchy]]. The Salvation Army is only briefly shown or discussed in these movies such as a bell ringer on the corner in the movie ''[[Maid in Manhattan]]'' and ''[[National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation]]'', and briefly mentioned in ''[[Batman Begins]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_salarmy.html|title=Famous Salvationists / Members of the Salvation Army|website=www.adherents.com|access-date=26 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914202002/http://www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_salarmy.html|archive-date=14 September 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Additionally, in ''[[Lord of War]]'', a main character (an illegal gun merchant) claimed that the Salvation Army had been the only "army" he had not "supplied".<ref>[https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=4851189 Alex Chadwick, 'Lord of War': An Arms Dealer as Hero, National Public Radio programme]</ref> The Salvation Army began producing silent films in the 1900s when they created Australia's first film studio. |
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The Salvation Army released a statement saying, "It is clear that we let down the tenants of Seaview Terrace and Mount Zion and we are deeply sorry. Considerable refurbishment and improvement work is already underway. We have employed a contractor as a Project Manager dedicated to Hadleigh and will be employing a Building Surveyor on a permanent basis to focus on Hadleigh going forward".{{cn|date=October 2024}} |
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=== Film studio === |
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The Salvation Army started their own film studio called The [[Limelight Department]] in Australia beginning in 1892.<ref name=":02">{{Cite news|url=http://www.salvationarmy.org.au/en/Who-We-Are/History-and-heritage/Australias-first-film-studio/|title=Australia's first film studio|last=Army|first=Salvation|work=The Salvation Army|access-date=27 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180313022739/http://www.salvationarmy.org.au/en/Who-We-Are/History-and-heritage/Australias-first-film-studio/|archive-date=13 March 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> The original studio still stands today and is being preserved by the Salvation Army. One of the films included was a documentary called ''[[Inauguration of the Australian Commonwealth (film)|Inauguration of the Australian Commonwealth]]''.<ref name=":02" /> In the years between 1892 and 1909, The Limelight Department produced over 300 films and documented Australia's Federation Ceremonies in 1909.<ref name=":02" /> |
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The MP for Castle Point, [[Rebecca Harris]] said she had repeated meetings with the Salvation Army over a number of years to try and get the church to improve living conditions. She said, "They kept making promises that failed to materialise."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Goodley |first=Simon |date=21 April 2022 |title=Salvation Army in UK accused of 'rogue landlord' attitude |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/21/salvation-army-in-uk-accused-of-rogue-landlord-attitude |access-date=21 April 2022 |website=The Guardian |language=en}} |
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== See also == |
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* {{Cite web |last=Hills |first=Joel |date=21 April 2022 |title=Salvation Army accused of acting like a 'rogue landlord' |url=https://www.itv.com/news/2022-04-21/salvation-army-accused-of-acting-like-a-rogue-landlord |access-date=21 April 2022 |website=ITV News |language=en}}</ref> |
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=== Kroc Centres === |
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{{Main|Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Centers|l1 = Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Centres}} |
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In 2004, the Army in the United States received a US$1.6 billion donation in the will of [[Joan B. Kroc]], the third wife of former [[McDonald's]] CEO [[Ray Kroc]]. This donation was among the larger individual [[philanthropy|philanthropic]] gifts ever given to a single organisation. The donation came with certain restrictions, such as requiring the funds to be used on new rather than existing centers.<ref name="kroc">{{cite web |last=Nobles |first=Marla |date=1 November 2006 |title=Slow Going For Kroc Centers |url=http://www.thenonprofittimes.com/news-articles/slow-going-for-kroc-centers/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222213420/http://www.thenonprofittimes.com/news-articles/slow-going-for-kroc-centers/ |archive-date=22 February 2014 |access-date=25 June 2013 |work=The NonProfit Times |quote=When the Salvation Army of San Francisco broke ground this past June on a complex that would include a Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center, the project became the first to make it through a maze of guidelines and restrictions to access a share of the $1.6 billion bequest to the Salvation Army from the McDonald's fast-food heiress.... Part of the challenge – and basis for much controversy – is raising matching funds within communities where donors now perceive the Salvation Army as affluent because of the gift.}}</ref> As of 2023, 26 new centers were opened using these funds.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-08 |title=How Joan Kroc's surprise $1.8 billion gift to the Salvation Army transformed 26 communities |url=https://apnews.com/article/joan-kroc-salvation-army-donation-1081f7d06f3691134fb13258380a4f44 |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref> |
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In Nov. 2024 the Canadian company [[Crombie REIT]] said at it's [[Avalon Mall]] property that the Salvation Army was not allowed because they updated their "community impact strategy" and will no longer be partnering with any organizations affiliated with religion |
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The Salvation Army is featured in many popular movies such as ''[[Guys and Dolls (film)|Guys and Dolls]]'' and ''[[Major Barbara (film)|Major Barbara]]''.<ref>Shaw, Bernard und Baziyan, Vitaly. 2-in-1: English-German. Major Barbara & Majorin Barbara. New York, 2020, {{ISBN|979-8692881076}}</ref> A book detailing over 500 films in which the Salvation Army appears or is mentioned was published in 2020 entitled ''The Salvation Army at the Movies''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.librarything.com/work/25679164|title=The Salvation Army at the Movies|first=Rob|last=Kinnon-Brettle|isbn=978-1838222802|date=2020|publisher=Kinnon }}</ref> |
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The Salvation Army began producing silent films when they started their own film studio called The [[Limelight Department]] in 1892,<ref name=":02">{{Cite news|url=http://www.salvationarmy.org.au/en/Who-We-Are/History-and-heritage/Australias-first-film-studio/|title=Australia's first film studio|last=Army|first=Salvation|work=The Salvation Army|access-date=27 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180313022739/http://www.salvationarmy.org.au/en/Who-We-Are/History-and-heritage/Australias-first-film-studio/|archive-date=13 March 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> which was the first in Australia. The original studio still stands today and is being preserved by the Salvation Army. One of the films was a documentary called ''[[Inauguration of the Australian Commonwealth (film)|Inauguration of the Australian Commonwealth]]''.<ref name=":02" /> In the years between 1898 and 1909, The Limelight Department produced over 300 films and documented Australia's Federation Ceremonies in 1909.<ref name=":02" /> |
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* Cooper, David Paul. ''Notes on The Salvation Army: An East End History in Photographs''. |
* Cooper, David Paul. ''Notes on The Salvation Army: An East End History in Photographs''. |
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* Eason, Andrew M. Roger J. Green, eds. ''Boundless Salvation: The Shorter Writings of William Booth''. New York: Peter Lang |
* Eason, Andrew M. Roger J. Green, eds. (2012) ''Boundless Salvation: The Shorter Writings of William Booth''. New York: Peter Lang. |
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* Eason, Andrew M. ''Women in God's Army: Gender and Equality in the Early Salvation Army''. Waterloo |
* Eason, Andrew M. (2003) ''Women in God's Army: Gender and Equality in the Early Salvation Army''. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. {{ISBN|0-88920-418-7}}. |
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* {{cite news |first=Dana|last=Milbank|title=Charity Cites Bush Help in Fight Against Hiring Gays: Salvation Army Wants Exemption From Laws|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/07/10/charity-cites-bush-help-in-fight-against-hiring-gays/30e536a6-9535-4e1d-812f-180139055546/ |date=10 July 2001|page=A01}} |
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* Merritt, Major John G. ''Historical Dictionary of The Salvation Army'' (Scarecrow Press, 2006). |
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* [https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A37723-2001Jul9 ''Washington Post'' article regarding the deal between The Salvation Army and the Bush administration] |
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* [https://photos.irp.us/Public-Safety/Salvation-Army The Salvation Army Emergency Disaster Services] |
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* [https://story.salvationarmy.org/ Timeline of Salvation Army development] |
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* [http://www.thearda.com/Denoms/D_977.asp Salvation Army: – Association of Religion Data Archives] |
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The Salvation Army | |
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Classification | Protestant |
Orientation | Holiness movement |
Scripture | Bible |
Structure | Military rank–based chain of command |
General | Lyndon Buckingham |
Associations | National Association of Evangelicals Christian Churches Together |
Region | Worldwide |
Headquarters | IHQ, London, EC4V United Kingdom |
Founder | [1]: 21 |
Origin | 2 July 1865[2] London |
Separated from | Methodism[1]: 21 |
Separations | American Rescue Workers (1882) Volunteers of America (1896) |
Congregations | 15,409[3] |
Members | 1.65 million[3] |
Ministers | 26,359[3] |
Other name(s) | East London Christian Mission (formerly)[1]: 21 |
Official website | salvationarmy |
The Salvation Army (TSA) is a Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organisation headquartered in London, England. It is aligned with the Wesleyan-Holiness movement. The organisation reports a worldwide membership of over 1.7 million,[3] consisting of soldiers, officers, and adherents who are collectively known as salvationists. Its founders sought to bring salvation to the poor, destitute, and hungry by meeting both their "physical and spiritual needs". It is present in 133 countries,[4] running charity shops, operating shelters for the homeless, and disaster relief and humanitarian aid to developing countries.
The theology of the Salvation Army derives from Methodism, although it differs in institution and practice; an example is that the Salvation Army does not observe sacraments. As with other denominations in the Holiness Methodist tradition, the Salvation Army lays emphasis on the New Birth (first work of grace) and entire sanctification (second work of grace).[5][6] A distinctive characteristic of the Salvation Army is its use of titles derived from military ranks, such as "lieutenant" or "major". The Army's doctrine is aligned with the Wesleyan–Arminian tradition, particularly the holiness movement. The Army's purposes are "the advancement of the Christian religion... of education, the relief of poverty, and other charitable objects beneficial to society or the community of mankind as a whole".[7]
The Salvation Army was founded in 1865 as the "East London Christian Mission" in London by one-time Methodist preacher William Booth and his wife Catherine. It can trace its origins to the Blind Beggar Tavern. In 1878, Booth reorganised the mission, becoming its first general and introducing the military structure, which it has retained as a matter of tradition.[8] The Salvation Army's highest priority is its Christian principles. As of 2023[update] the international leader and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Salvation Army is General Lyndon Buckingham.[9]
The Salvation Army is the largest non-government provider of social services in the United States and one of the largest in the world,[10] with expenditures including operating costs of US$3.6 billion in 2022, assisting more than 32 million people in the U.S. alone.[11] In addition to funding feeding centres, homeless shelters, rehabilitation centres, community centres, and disaster relief, the organisation also establishes refugee camps, especially among displaced people in Africa. In the United Kingdom, the Salvation Army is no longer the largest non-governmental provider of social services; however, it still provides a significant service to people in need. The Salvation Army is the fourth largest charity in the United States, with private donations in excess of US$2 billion in 2022.[12] It is a member of many national interdenominational groups, including the American organisation Christian Churches Together.[13]
Ministers
[edit]The Salvation Army refers to its ministers as "officers". When they are acting in their official capacities, they can often be recognised by the colour-coded epaulettes on their white uniform dress shirts. The epaulettes have the letter "S" embroidered on them in white. Officer ranks include Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, Commissioner, and General. Promotion in rank from Lieutenant to Major depends primarily on years of service.
Officers are given Marching Orders to change ministries within the Salvation Army. Usually, officers are given new marching orders every two to five years and reassigned to different posts, sometimes moving great distances.
The Salvation Army permits the ordination of women. Salvation Army officers were previously allowed to marry only other officers (this rule varied in different countries); but this rule has been relaxed in recent years. Husbands and wives usually share the same rank and have the same or similar assignments. Such officer-couples are assigned together to act as co-pastors and to administer corps, Adult Rehabilitation Centres, and such.
Facilities
[edit]Churches
[edit]The Army has churches throughout the world, known as Salvation Army corps. These serve as churches and community centres. Traditionally, many corps buildings are also called temples or citadels.
Thrift stores and charity shops
[edit]The Salvation Army is well known for its network of thrift stores or charity shops—colloquially referred to as "the Sally Ann" in Canada and the United States, "Salvos Stores" in Australia, and "Sally's" in New Zealand—which raise money for its rehabilitation programs by selling donated used items such as clothing, housewares, and toys. Clothing collected by Salvation Army stores that is not sold on location is often sold wholesale on the global secondhand clothing market.
The Salvation Army's fundraising shops in the United Kingdom participated in the UK government's Work Programme, a workfare programme in which benefit claimants had to work for no compensation for 20 to 40 hours per week over periods as long as six months.[14][15]
When people buy items at Salvation Army thrift stores, part of the proceeds go toward The Salvation Army's emergency relief efforts and programs.[16] Textile items not sold are recycled and turned into other items such as carpet underlay.[16] The Salvation Army also helps their employees by hiring ex-felons, depending on the circumstances, because they believe in giving people second chances.[17]
Adult Rehabilitation Centres
[edit]Some Salvation Army locations are associated with an Adult Rehabilitation Centre (ARC) in which men and women make a six-month rehabilitation commitment to live and work at the ARC residence. They are unpaid, but provided with room and board. Many ARCs are male-only. The program is primarily to combat addiction. Residents work at the warehouse, store, or residence. This is referred to as "work therapy". They attend classes, twelve-step programs, and chapel services as a part of their rehabilitation. The Army advertises these programs on their collection trucks with the slogan "Doing the Most Good".[18] An ARC is typically associated with a main store and warehouse. Donations are consolidated from other stores and donation sites, sorted and priced, and then distributed back out to the branch stores. Low-quality donated items are sold at the warehouse dock in a "dock sale".
Hadleigh Farm Colony
[edit]Farmland at Hadleigh in Essex featured market gardens, orchards, and two brickfields. It was mentioned in the Royal Commission report of 1909, which was appointed to consider Poor Laws. 7,000 trainees had passed through its doors by 1912 with more than 60% subsequently finding employment.[19]
Other
[edit]The Salvation Army operates children's summer camps and adult day care centres. It has headquarter offices internationally, nationally, and for each territory and division. Some of its other facilities include:[3]
- Homeless hostels
- Residential addiction dependency programs
- Children's homes
- Homes for elderly persons
- Mother and baby homes
- Women's and men's refuge centres
- General hospitals
- Schools
- Maternity hospitals
- After School Programs
- Food Pantries
- Overnight Warming Stations
- Cooling Stations
Beliefs
[edit]The official mission statement reads:
The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.[20]
Early beliefs of the Salvation Army were influenced by the book Helps to Holiness,[21] which influenced spiritual life in the Army for a generation.[1]: 57 The sacred text of the Salvation Army is the Bible,[22] and the beliefs of the Salvation Army rest upon these eleven doctrines:[23]
- We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments were given by inspiration of God; and that they only constitute the Divine rule of Christian faith and practice.
- We believe that there is only one God, who is infinitely perfect, the Creator, Preserver, and Governor of all things, and who is the only proper object of religious worship.
- We believe that there are three persons in the Godhead – the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost – undivided in essence and co-equal in power and glory.
- We believe that in the person of Jesus Christ, the Divine and human natures are united, so that He is truly and properly God and truly and properly man.
- We believe that our first parents were created in a state of innocency, but by their disobedience, they lost their purity and happiness; and that in consequence of their fall all men have become sinners, totally depraved, and as such are justly exposed to the wrath of God.
- We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has, by His suffering and death, made an atonement for the whole world so that whosoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
- We believe that repentance towards God, faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and regeneration by the Holy Spirit are necessary to salvation.
- We believe that we are justified by grace, through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ; and that he that believeth hath the witness in himself.
- We believe that continuance in a state of salvation depends upon continued obedient faith in Christ.
- We believe that it is the privilege of all believers to be wholly sanctified, and that their whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- We believe in the immortality of the soul; in the resurrection of the body; in the general judgment at the end of the world; in the eternal happiness of the righteous; and in the endless punishment of the wicked.
The denomination does not celebrate sacraments, such as Baptism and Holy Communion. The position of the International Spiritual Life Commission, which is convened by the general to examine and identify aspects of the Army's life which are essential or integral to the spiritual growth, opinion is that enrollment as a Soldier by accepting the call to discipleship should be followed by a lifetime of continued obedient faith in Christ.[24]: 298 The Commission's considered opinion of Holy Communion is that God's grace is readily accessible in all places and at all times, although Salvationists may participate in Holy Communion if attending a service of worship in another Christian denomination if the host Church allows.[24]: 300
Although its officers conduct marriages, the Salvation Army holds a traditional Protestant belief that marriage was not instituted by Christ and therefore is not a sacrament. The mercy seat is a focal point in a Salvation Army Church, symbolizing God's call to his people, and a place for commitment and communion, and is available for anyone to kneel at in prayer.[24]: 304
Worship services
[edit]The Salvation Army does not require anyone attending a service to be a member of the Salvation Army in any capacity (as a Soldier, Adherent, or Officer). Services in Salvation Army churches feature a variety of activities:[25]
- The service often begins with a greeting from the Minister.
- Hymns are sung, accompanied by backing music.
- There is a scripture reading from the Bible.
- Prayers are led by the Minister leading the service.
- Depending on demand, a Sunday School may be run in another room.
- A collection is held to receive a financial offering, either loose money or coins in a cartridge envelope.[26] This is sometimes referred to as "Tithes and Offerings".
- The congregation sings the doxology.
- A sermon on the Bible reading is then given.
- The service concludes with a benediction.
Local corps usually sing contemporary worship music songs in Sunday worship services as well as traditional hymns from the official Songbook of the Salvation Army. Music is often accompanied by a brass band. Many American corps adopted a mainstream Christian format with video screens showing words to music so that the audience can sing along. The early Salvation Army bands were known for their excitement and public appeal, and the modern ensemble keeps to this ideology. Traditional hymns are blended with other musical pieces from Christian Music Publishers such as Vineyard Music, Hillsong, and Planet Shakers to name but a few.[citation needed]
Soldier's Covenant
[edit]The Soldier's Covenant[27] is the creed of the Salvation Army. All members of the church are allowed to subscribe to this creed; every person has to sign the document before they can become enrolled as a Soldier.[28] Members have traditionally been referred to as "soldiers" of Christ.[29][30][31] These were formerly known as the "Articles of War", and include "Having received with all my heart the salvation offered to me by the tender mercy of God, I do here and now acknowledge God the Father to be my King; God the Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, to be my Saviour; and God the Holy Spirit to be my Guide, Comforter and Strength, and I will, by His help, love, serve, worship and obey this glorious God through time and in eternity."[1]: 4
Positional Statements
[edit]Positional Statements[32] describe Salvation Army policy on various social and moral issues. They are carefully considered by the International Headquarters of The Salvation Army. They are derived from work by the International Moral and Social Issues Council. The Salvation Army opposes euthanasia and assisted suicide. Its official stance on abortion is that "The Salvation Army believes in the sanctity of all human life and considers each person to be of infinite value and each life a gift from God to be cherished, nurtured and redeemed. Human life is sacred because it is made in the image of God and has an eternal destiny. (Genesis 1:27) Sacredness is not conferred, nor can it be taken away by human agreement." The Salvation Army official stance admitted in 2010 exceptions in cases such as rape and incest: "In addition, rape and incest are brutal acts of dominance violating women physically and emotionally. This situation represents a special case for the consideration of termination as the violation may be compounded by the continuation of the pregnancy."[33] It is also against the death penalty: "The Salvation Army recognises that the opinions of Salvationists are divided on the moral acceptability of capital punishment and its effectiveness as a deterrent. However, to advocate in any way the continuance or restoration of capital punishment in any part of the world would be inconsistent with the Army's purposes and contrary to the Army's belief that all human life is sacred and that each human being, however wretched, can become a new person in Christ."
In 2012, the Salvation Army, Australian Territories published a "Positional Statement on Homosexuality" after receiving adverse publicity about their position on homosexuality.[34]
The Bible teaches that God's intention for humankind is that society should be ordered on the basis of lifelong, legally sanctioned heterosexual unions.... A disposition towards homosexuality is not in itself blameworthy nor is the disposition seen as rectifiable at will.... Homosexual practice however, is, in the light of Scripture, clearly unacceptable. Such activity is chosen behaviour and is thus a matter of the will. It is therefore able to be directed or restrained in the same way heterosexual urges are controlled. Homosexual practice would render any person ineligible for full membership (soldiership) in the Army.[35]
On 8 December 2017, the Salvation Army released an International Positional Statement on racism which says that racism is "fundamentally incompatible with the Christian conviction that all people are made in the image of God and are equal in value. The Salvation Army believes that the world is enriched by a diversity of cultures and ethnicities."[36]
Community services
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Disaster relief
[edit]In the United States, the Salvation Army's first major forays into disaster relief resulted from the tragedies of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900[37] and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.[38] General Evangeline Booth offered the services of Salvationists to President Woodrow Wilson during the First World War.[37]
The Salvation Army is a nongovernmental relief agency. After the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, they arrived at the disaster sites to help retrieve and bury the dead. Since then they have helped rebuild homes and construct new boats for people to recover their livelihood. Members were prominent among relief organisations after Hurricane Hugo[39] and Hurricane Andrew.[40] In August 2005, they supplied drinking water to poor people affected by the heat wave in the United States. Later in 2005 they responded to hurricanes Katrina and Rita. They helped the victims of an earthquake in Indonesia in May 2006.[citation needed]
Since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, the Salvation Army has allocated donations of more than US$365 million to serve more than 1.7 million people in nearly every American state. The Army's immediate response to Hurricane Katrina included the mobilization of more than 178 canteen feeding units and 11 field kitchens which together served more than 5.7 million hot meals, 8.3 million sandwiches, snacks, and drinks. Its SATERN (Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network)[41][42] network of amateur ham-radio operators picked up where modern communications left off to help locate more than 25,000 survivors. Salvation Army pastoral care counselors were on hand to comfort the emotional and spiritual needs of 277,000 individuals. As part of the effort, Salvation Army officers, employees, and volunteers contributed more than 900,000 hours of service.[citation needed]
The Salvation Army was one of the first relief agencies on the scene of the September 11 attacks in New York City in 2001. They also provided prayer support for families of missing people.[citation needed]
The Salvation Army, along with the American National Red Cross, Southern Baptist Convention, and other disaster relief organisations, are members of the National Voluntary Organisations Active in Disaster (NVOAD).[43]
Around the world, the Salvation Army have emergency services support emergency disaster services in the United States.[44] These are mobile canteen vehicles[45] that provide food and other welfare to members of the Emergency Services at bushfires, floods, land search, and other large- and small-scale emergency operations undertaken by Police, Fire, Ambulance, and State Emergency Service members, and to the general public affected by such events. Volunteers and officers run the canteen service. They respond when emergency services have been on the scene for more than four hours or where four or more Fire vehicles are responding.[citation needed]
Family Tracing Service
[edit]The Family Tracing Service (sometimes known as the Missing Persons Service) was established in 1885, and the service is now available in most of the countries where The Salvation Army operates. The Tracing Service's objective is to restore (or to sustain) family relationships where contact has been lost, whether recently or in the distant past. Thousands of people are traced every year on behalf of their relatives.[citation needed]
Youth groups
[edit]The Salvation Army includes many youth groups, which primarily consist of its Sunday schools and the Scout and Guide packs. The Scout and Guide packs are affiliated with and sponsored by the Salvation Army but are open units that allow anyone to join. These units/packs observe Christian standards and encourage young people to investigate and develop in their Christian faith. Some territories have a Salvation Army Guards and Legions Association (SAGALA). In the United States youth groups that are specifically for girls are known as Girl Guards (older girls) and Sunbeams (younger girls). Adventure Corps serves boys who are enrolled in school for first through eighth grades, and is sometimes separated into Rangers (6th–8th Grade) and Explorers (5th Grade and younger).[citation needed]
Alove UK
[edit]In the 21st century, the Salvation Army in the United Kingdom created a branch for the youth, called Alove:[46] the Salvation Army for a new generation. Its purpose is to free the youth of the church and their communities to express themselves and their faith in their own ways. Its mission statement is "Calling a generation to dynamic faith, radical lifestyle, adventurous mission and a fight for justice". It emphasises worship, discipleship, missions, and social action. Alove is a member of the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS).[47]
Work Against Exploitation
[edit]The Salvation Army works with a specialist team in partnership with the UK service Modern Slavery Helpline (telephone 0800 0121 700) to help people who have been exploited for labor or profits. The organisation also assists homeless people by running 461 hostels[48] and 20 refugee programmes.[citation needed]
COVID-19 relief
[edit]In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Salvation Army donated 224,603,024 meals and 1,822,412 personal protective equipment supply kits in the United States.[49][50]
History
[edit]The Salvation Army was founded in London's East End in 1865 by one-time Methodist Reform Church minister William Booth and his wife Catherine Booth as the East London Christian Mission,[1]: 21 and this name was used until 1878.[1]: 5 The name "The Salvation Army" developed from an incident on 19 and 20 May 1878. William Booth was dictating a letter to his secretary George Scott Railton and said, "We are a volunteer army." Bramwell Booth heard his father and said, "Volunteer! I'm no volunteer, I'm a regular!" Railton was instructed to cross out the word "volunteer" and substitute the word "salvation".[51] The Salvation Army was modelled after the military, with its own flag (or colours) and its own hymns, often with words set to popular and folkloric tunes sung in the pubs. Booth and the other soldiers in "God's Army" would wear the Army's own uniform for meetings and ministry work. He became the "General" and his other ministers were given appropriate ranks as "officers". Other members became "soldiers".[52]
When William Booth became known as the General, Catherine was known as the "Mother of The Salvation Army". William was motivated to convert poor Londoners such as prostitutes, gamblers, and alcoholics to Christianity,[53] while Catherine spoke to wealthier people, gaining financial support for their work. She also acted as a religious minister, which was unusual at the time. The Foundation Deed of the Christian Mission states that women had the same rights to preach as men. William Booth described the organisation's approach: "The three 'S's' best expressed the way in which the Army administered to the 'down and outs': first, soup; second, soap; and finally, salvation."[54]
In 1880, the Salvation Army started work in three other countries: Australia, Ireland, and the United States. Salvationists set out for the U.S. in 1880. George Scott Railton and his team started work in Harry Hill's Variety Theatre on 14 March 1880. The first notable convert was Ashbarrel Jimmie who had so many convictions for drunkenness that the judge sentenced him to attend the Salvation Army.[1]: 113 The corps in New York were founded as a result of Jimmys' rehabilitation. It was not always an Officer of The Salvation Army who started the Salvation Army in a new country; sometimes Salvationists emigrated to countries and started operating as "the Salvation Army" on their own authority. When the first official officers arrived in Australia and the United States, they found groups of Salvationists already waiting for them and started working with each other. The Army's organised social work began in Australia on 8 December 1883 with the establishment of a home for ex-convicts.[1]: 82
In 1891, William Booth established a farm colony in Hadleigh, Essex, which allowed people to escape the overcrowded slums in London's East End. A fully working farm with its own market-gardens, orchards, and milk production, it provided training in basic building trades and household work.[55]
The Salvation Army's main converts were at first alcoholics, morphine addicts, prostitutes, and other "undesirables" unwelcome in polite Christian society, which helped prompt the Booths to start their own church.[56] The Booths did not include the use of sacraments (mainly baptism and Holy Communion) in the Army's form of worship, believing that many Christians had come to rely on the outward signs of spiritual grace rather than on grace itself.[57] Other beliefs are that its members should completely refrain from drinking alcohol[58] (Holy Communion is not practised), smoking, taking illegal drugs, and gambling.[59] Its soldiers wear a uniform tailored to the country in which they work; the uniform can be white, grey, navy, or fawn and are even styled like a sari in some areas. Any member of the public is welcome to attend their meetings.[citation needed]
As the Salvation Army grew rapidly in the late 19th century, it generated opposition in England. Opponents, grouped under the name of the Skeleton Army, disrupted Salvation Army meetings and gatherings with tactics such as throwing rocks, bones, rats, and tar as well as physical assaults on members of the Salvation Army. Much of this was led by pub owners who were losing business because of the Army's opposition to alcohol and its targeting of the frequenters of saloons and public houses.[60]
In 1882, the Salvation Army was established in Asia with the first outpost in India.[61] The Army also established outposts in Australia in 1879, Japan in 1895, and China in 1915.[citation needed]
The Salvation Army's reputation in the United States improved as a result of its disaster relief efforts following the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.[citation needed]
Today, in the U.S. alone, over 25,000 volunteer bell ringers with red kettles are stationed near retail stores during the weeks preceding Christmas for fundraising.[56] The church remains a highly visible and sometimes controversial presence in many parts of the world.[citation needed]
The Salvation Army was one of the original six organisations that made up the USO, along with the YMCA, YWCA, National Catholic Community Services, National Jewish Welfare Board, and National Travelers Aid Association.[62]
National Salvation Army week was created by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on 24 November 1954, encouraging people to honour the Salvation Army for its work in the United States throughout the past seventy-five years.[63]
History of Doughnut Day
[edit]In 1917, over 250 Salvation Army volunteers went to soldiers' camps in France during World War I to provide supplies and baked goods, including doughnuts, to soldiers. The women who served doughnuts to the troops fried them in soldiers' helmets. They were known as "Doughnut Lassies" and are credited with popularising doughnuts in the United States.[64] National Doughnut Day is now celebrated in the United States on the first Friday of June every year, a tradition that started in Chicago in 1938, to honour those who served doughnuts to soldiers during World War I.[65]
Salvation Navy
[edit]In 1911, New York City architect Bradford Gilbert donated a yacht, The Jerry McAuley, to the Salvation Army.[66] Jerry McAuley was a reformed criminal who founded the McAuley Water Street Mission (now the New York City Rescue Mission) in Lower Manhattan; he was also Mrs. Gilbert's first husband.[67] This 35-foot powerboat with two cabins was the first vessel in the Salvation Navy in America; there were already two or three such vessels in Scandinavia.[66] Its purpose is "to cruise the Atlantic coast, north in the summer and south in the winter, doing missionary work among the seamen of the ports."[66] There was a six person crew; the captain was evangelist Major Nils Erikson.[66][68]
Safeguarding Work
[edit]The involvement of the Salvation Army in work to combat slavery and human trafficking can be traced back to William Booth publishing a letter in The War Cry in 1885.[69] The same year an escapee from a prostitution house arrived at the door of the Salvation Army headquarters and sought help from Bramwell Booth.[70]
An early precursor to the Salvation Army becoming involved in safeguarding work was Catherine Booth writing to Queen Victoria regarding a Parliamentary bill for the protection of girls.[71] Safeguarding legislation was strengthened by a new act of Parliament, the "Public General Act, an Act to make further provision for the protection of women and girls, the suppression of brothels, and other purposes, (otherwise known as the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885)", which received Royal Assent on 14 August 1885[72] The Salvation Army was involved in getting this Act passed.[73] Its work included a petition (numbering 340,000 signatures, deposited on the floor of the House of Commons by eight uniformed Salvationists),[74] mass meetings, and an investigation into child prostitution. W.T. Stead of The Pall Mall Gazette launched a campaign in 1885 by writing articles on The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon to expose the extent of child prostitution,[1]: 84 which involved procuring a girl, Eliza, for £5. She was cared for by the Army, taken to France, and subsequently testified as a key witness at the trial of Stead and Rebecca Jarrett (the prostitute who had arranged the "sale" of Eliza) at Bow Street. Both were sentenced to six months in prison.[citation needed]
The newly founded Salvation Army in Japan also encountered child prostitution, derived from a system of Debt Bondage. An imperial ordinance (written in classical Japanese which few could understand) declared the girls' right to freedom; the pioneer Salvationist Gunpei Yamamuro rewrote it in colloquial speech.[1]: 86 His wife Kiye took charge of a girls' home to provide accommodation for any girl wishing to give up prostitution. An imperial ordinance passed on 2 October 1900 stated that any woman who wished to give up prostitution only had to go to the nearest police station and ask.[citation needed]
Organisational structure
[edit]The Salvation Army operates in 133 countries.[4] The General is the head of the Salvation Army. The organisation divides itself geographically into five zones: Americas and Caribbean, Europe, South Asia, South Pacific and East Asia, and Africa.[75] The "zonal departments" at International Headquarters[76] in London, United Kingdom, are the head of global territories and commands.[77]
Each territory is further divided into territories, which are then sub-divided into divisions. Some territories cover several countries (like Italy and Greece)[78] while some countries may have several territories (e.g. Australia Eastern and Australia Southern)[78] In larger areas, regional and area commands exist as subdivisions of divisions. Each territory has an administrative hub known as territorial headquarters (THQ). Each division has a divisional headquarters (DHQ). Each of these territories is led by a territorial commander who receives orders from the Salvation Army's international headquarters in London.[citation needed]
High Councils
[edit]Much of what happens at the High Council is governed by British Law, as set out in the Salvation Army Acts (1931, 1963, 1968, 1980). The 2013 High Council consisted of 118 members (62 women and 56 men) made up of the Chief of Staff, all the active commissioners and territorial leaders (some territories are led by colonels), each of whom was summoned by the Chief of the Staff for the sole purpose of electing a new General.[79]
Heritage Centres
[edit]Heritage Centres are museums run by the Salvation Army which have exhibits and historical documents related to the history and work of the organisation. Heritage Centres collect, preserve, catalogue, research, and share material about the life and work of The Salvation Army. The International Heritage Centre in London can provide details of premises in any specific territory.[80] It also manages the Salvation Army's archival Twitter feed.[citation needed]
Relevant legislation
[edit]Various Constituting Instruments apply to different aspects of the work of the Salvation Army. Legislation passed in the United Kingdom Parliament covered the following:
- The Salvation Army Act 1931 contained several provisions,[1]: 26 firstly that the High Council be convened to elect a new General when the role became vacant, and reorganised custody of property held in charitable trust[81] by the foundation of the Salvation Army Trustee Company being formed to hold all property previously vested in the general. Section 4 relates to a serving General giving notice of their intention to retire.[82]
- The Salvation Army Act 1963[83] established a non-contributory pension fund for Officers of the Salvation Army.
- The Salvation Army Act 1968 relates to management of Salvation Army trusts.[84]
- The Salvation Army Act 1980 revised and consolidated the constitution of the Salvation Army to continue its work.[85]
- Schedule 1 covered the Religious Doctrines of the Army
- Schedule 2 related to Common Investment Schemes and the establishment of a Central Finance Council
- Part V covered the Election of the General
Membership
[edit]Statistics for membership[86] from the 2018 year book,[87] are: 111,859 employees, 17,168 Active Officers, 9,775 Retired Officers, 1,050 Cadets, 175,811 Adherents, 411,327 Junior Soldiers and 1,182,100 Senior Soldiers. Previous membership statistics (as quoted from 2010 year book) include 16,938 active and 9,190 retired officers, 39,071 Corps Cadets and more than 4.5 million volunteers. Members of the Salvation Army also include "adherents"; these are people who do not make the commitment to be a soldier but who recognise the Salvation Army as their church. (According to the 2006 Salvation Army year book, in the United States there are 85,148 senior soldiers and 28,377 junior soldiers, 17,396 adherents and around 60,000 employees.)
Leadership
[edit]General Lyndon Buckingham has been the world leader of the Salvation Army since 3 August 2023.[citation needed]
International Congress of the Salvation Army
[edit]The International Congress of the Salvation Army is normally held every ten years[88] as a conference for all Salvationists from around the world to meet. The first such conference took place in London, U.K., from 28 May to 4 June 1886, and subsequent Congressional meetings were held sporadically until 1904 and then 1990.[89] The seventh International Congress in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, from 28 June to 2 July 2000, was the first held outside of the U.K.[90] The latest International Congress was held in London on 1–5 July 2015, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Salvation Army's founding.[citation needed]
Presence in Russia
[edit]In Russia the Army was founded around 1917[1]: 99 and it struggled until 1922 at which point the situation had become extremely challenging.[1]: 100 A Moscow court ruled that the Salvation Army was a paramilitary organisation subject to expulsion. In October 2006, the European Court of Human Rights ruled the decision illegal.[91] The Salvation Army International website[92] lists the Russian Federation as part of the Territory of Eastern Europe.[93]
Presence in China
[edit]William Booth's dying wish for the Salvation Army to be established in China[94] was taken up in a pledge made in 1912 by Bramwell Booth to his father.[95] In 1915 the first officers were sent, and during the 1931 famine fed 100,000 people daily. Following political difficulties by 1952 the Army withdrew from the country but work still continues in Macau and Hong Kong, as well as in Taiwan.[citation needed]
Symbols
[edit]Flag
[edit]The Salvation Army flag is a symbol of the Army's war against sin and social evils. The red on the flag symbolises the blood of Jesus Christ, the yellow for the fire of the Holy Spirit, and the blue for purity and God.[96]
Crest
[edit]The oldest official emblem of The Salvation Army is the crest. In 1878 Captain W.H. Ebdon suggested a logo, and in 1879 it was to be found on the letterhead of the Salvation Army Headquarters. The captain's suggested design was changed only slightly and a crown was added.[97][98]
The Army's crest contains Biblical references though its symbolism:
- The sun with its rays represents the light and fire of the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 3:11)
- The cross represents the cross of Jesus on which He died as a sacrifice for our sins. (Romans 3:25)
- The letter "S" represents the salvation which is available to all people through Jesus Christ. (John 3:16–17)
- The crossed swords represent God's Word (Hebrews 4:12). God's Word is the Christian's weapon in the salvation war (the war against Satan and evil).
- The Gospel shots (Psalm 119:160) represent the basic truths of the Gospel; there are 7 in all.
- The existence of a Holy God;
- The evils of sin are against God and man;
- There will be punishment for sin that is fair and everlasting;
- Jesus died on the cross for the human race;
- Salvation is for all mankind and is free to all who accept Jesus Christ;
- It is the responsibility of every Christian to do whatever they can do to spread the Gospel;
- God rewards those who are faithful with eternal life in Heaven with Him.
- The words "Blood and Fire" as the "war cry" of the Salvation Army. It is Jesus' blood that washes us clean from sin and it is the fire of the Holy Spirit that makes us pure and helps us live lives that are pleasing to God.
- The crown represents the "Crown of Life and Glory" which God will give to all those who have been faithful to Him (James 1:12).
Red Shield
[edit]The Red Shield has its origins in Salvation Army work during wartime. At the end of the 19th century, Staff-Captain Mary Murray was sent by William Booth to support British troops serving in the Boer War in South Africa. Then, in 1901, this same officer was given the task of establishing the Naval and Military League, the forerunner of the Red Shield Services.[98]
Salvation Army officers serving in the Red Shield Services in wartime performed many functions. The Doughnut Girls of World War I are an early example, who served refreshments to troops in the trenches. They also provided first aid stations, ambulances, chaplaincy, social clubs, Christian worship, and other front-line services.[99]
This symbol is still used in Blue Shield Services that serve the British Armed Forces but it is widely used as a simple, more readily identifiable symbol in many Salvation Army settings. It is common to see the Red Shield used on a casual Salvation Army uniform. It is now official Salvation Army policy in the U.K. that the red shield should be used as the external symbol of the Salvation Army, with the Crest only being used internally. Therefore, any new Salvation Army building will now have the red shield on the outside rather than the crest which certainly would have been used on its Corps (church) buildings. This was "imposed" in the U.K. by the Senior Management with little or no consultation with members. Not all have welcomed this change.[100]
Uniform
[edit]Salvation Army officers, cadets[101] (trainee officers) and soldiers often wear uniforms. The idea that they should do so originated with Elijah Cadman, who, at the Salvation Army's "War Congress" in August 1878, said, "I would like to wear a suit of clothes that would let everyone know I meant war to the teeth and salvation for the world". The uniform identifies the wearer as a Salvationist and a Christian. It also symbolises availability to those in need. The uniform takes many forms internationally but is characterised by the "S" insignia for "Salvation" and carries the meaning "Saved to Serve", or "Saved to Save". Different colours and styles represent different ranks including soldiers, cadets, lieutenants, captains, majors, colonels, commissioner, and General.
Characteristics of the uniform vary between ranks where accessories (the official term is "trimmings") consist of epaulettes and hexagonal lapel patches.[102] The uniform varies with the position and rank:
- Soldier: plain black epaulettes (Corps name woven into base of epaulette) and black lapel patch with "S"
- Musician: plain blue or black epaulettes and lapel patch with "S"
- Cadet: black epaulette with 1 or 2 red bars corresponding to number of years of training and black lapel patch with "S"
- Officer ranks:
- Lieutenant: red epaulette with one silver star and red lapel patch with "S"
- Captain: red epaulette with two silver stars and red lapel patch with "S"
- Major: red epaulette with silver crest and red lapel patch with "S"
Other letters are substituted to conform with local language. The words "The Salvation Army" are woven into the fabric of the uniform as a logo on shirts, blouses, and jackets.
Tartan
[edit]Since 1983 there has been an official Salvation Army tartan. It was designed by Captain Harry Cooper, for the Perth Citadel Corps centenary commemoration in Scotland. It is based upon the colours of the Salvation Army flag, with which it shares the same symbolism. It is rarely seen outside Scotland.[103]
Salute
[edit]The Salvation Army has a unique form of salute which involves raising the right hand above shoulder-height with the index finger pointing upwards. It signifies recognition of a fellow citizen of heaven, and a pledge to do everything possible to get others to heaven also.[104] A Salvationist who salutes in this manner in response to applause, signifies that he or she wishes to give Glory to God and not themselves. In some instances, the salute is accompanied with a shout of "hallelujah!"
Red kettles
[edit]In many countries, the Salvation Army is recognised during the Christmas season as its volunteers and employees stand outside of businesses and play/sing Christmas carols, or ring bells to inspire passers-by to place donations of cash and cheques inside red kettles. A tradition has developed in the United States in which, in some places, gold coins or rings or bundles of large bills are anonymously inserted into the kettles. This was first recorded in 1982, in Crystal Lake, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.[105][106] Red kettles are not only used during the Christmas season, but throughout the year at other fundraising events, such as on National Doughnut Day in the U.S. On this day, some doughnut shops that teamed up with the Salvation Army have a red kettle set up for donations. Each corps has a monetary goal chosen for them by Divisional Headquarters, which differs based on size and capability.[107]
Red Shield Appeal and Self-Denial Appeal
[edit]The Red Shield Appeal and Self-Denial Appeal are annual fundraising campaigns in some territories, such as the U.K. and Australia. Each year, officers, soldiers, employees, and volunteers take to the streets worldwide to participate in door-to-door or street collections. The money raised is channelled towards The Salvation Army's social work in each respective territory. Within the territory defined by the United Kingdom and Ireland (UKIT) this collection is known as the Annual Appeal, and it often carries another name that the general public would more readily know—in 2012 it became The Big Collection.
Music playing
[edit]As the popularity of the organisation grew and Salvationists worked the streets of London attempting to convert individuals, they were sometimes confronted with unruly crowds. A family of musicians (the Frys, from Alderbury, Wiltshire) began working with the Army as their "bodyguards" and played music to distract the crowds.[108] In 1891, a Salvation Army band attempted to parade and play music in Eastbourne, Sussex, England. This was in contravention of local by-laws and resulted in the arrest of nine Salvationists. Unperturbed the Army continued to parade in defiance of the law, with the aim of gathering support for a change in legislation. Over the next few months the situation in the town escalated to such an extent that there were riots, and mounted police had to be called in from surrounding areas to try to maintain order.[109]
The tradition of having musicians available continued and eventually grew into standard brass bands. These are still seen in public at Army campaigns, as well as at other festivals, parades, and at Christmas. Across the world the brass band has been part of the Army's ministry and an immediately recognisable symbol to Salvationists and non-Salvationists alike. The Salvation Army also has choirs; these are known as Songster Brigades, normally comprising the traditional soprano, alto, tenor, and bass singers. The premier Songster Brigade in the Salvation Army is the International Staff Songsters (ISS). The standard of playing is high and the Army operates bands at the international level—such as the International Staff Band (a brass band) which is the equal of professional ensembles although it does not participate in the brass band contest scene—and territorial levels such as the New York Staff Band. Some professional brass players and contesting brass band personnel have Salvation Army backgrounds. Many Salvation Army corps have brass bands that play at Salvation Army meetings, although not all. The Salvation Army also fielded large concertina bands. From the turn of the (20th) century to the Second World War between a third and a half of all SA officers in Britain played concertina. For an evangelist, the concertina's portability, its ability to play both melody and chords, and most especially the fact that the player can sing or speak while playing, were all distinct advantages over brass instruments.[110]
The Army tradition in music is to use the popular idiom of the day to reach people for Jesus. The Army's Joy Strings were a hit pop group in the 1960s and early 1970s in the U.K. and beyond, reaching the charts and being featured on national television. Another popular band is The Insyderz, an American ska-core group popular in the 1990s and early 2000s. Hundreds of bands carry on this Salvation Army tradition, such as New Zealand's Moped, Chamberlain, Vatic, Agent C, and The Lads; England's Electralyte; Australia's Soteria Music Ministries, Summer Carnival Band, Crown of Thorns and Escape; and America's transMission, The Singing Company, HAB, BurN, and CJD – Cookies, Juice, & Donuts. Saytunes is a website designed to encourage and promote these contemporary Salvation Army bands and artists. Another significant musical feature of the Salvation Army is its use of tambourines with colourised ribbons representing the colours of the Salvation Army flag. They are mainly played by women.[citation needed]
Publications
[edit]The Salvation Army publishes books, magazines, and sheet music.[111] Due to the way in which the Salvation Army is constituted, copyright of some Army publications is vested in the General of The Salvation Army, and not necessarily the original authors.[112]
There are official social media accounts run by the Salvation Army on Twitter, Facebook groups run by Territories and Corps officers, and unofficial fan groups.[citation needed]
Books and magazines
[edit]- New Frontier Chronicle, news and networking for the Salvation Army[113]
- Caring Magazine, curating conversation around issues of social concern[114]
- The War Cry newspaper, first published in 1879 in the United Kingdom[115]
- Faith and Friends magazine[116]
- Salvationist magazine[117]
- Word and Deed journal[118]
- KidZone magazine[119]
- Priority magazine[120]
- Pipeline, The Salvation Army's news, features and opinion magazine AUE (discontinued)[121]
- Onfire The Salvation Army's news, features and opinion magazine AUS (discontinued)[122]
- Others The Salvation Army's news, features and opinion magazine (under newly unified Australian Territory)[122]
- Adult And Family Ministries Songbook[123]
- Kids Alive children's magazine
- Handbook of Doctrine[124]
- Salvation Story (revised Handbook of Doctrine)[125]
- The Salvation Army Yearbook 2018 (website page)[126]
- Christian Mission Magazine[127]
- Christian Mission Hymn Book[128]
- Revive[129]
- The Salvation Army Year Book 2018[130]
- Songbook of The Salvation Army[131]
Public views
[edit]In 1994, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, an industry publication, released the results of the largest study of charitable and non-profit organisation popularity and credibility. The study showed that The Salvation Army was ranked as the 4th "most popular charity/non-profit in America" of over 100 charities researched, with 47% of Americans over the age of 12 choosing 'Love' and 'Like A Lot' for The Salvation Army.[132]
Honours
[edit]General Bramwell Booth instituted the Order of the Founder on 20 August 1917.[133] The first awards were made in 1920 to one Soldier and 15 Officers. General George Carpenter founded the Order of Distinguished Auxiliary Service in 1941 to express the Salvation Army's gratitude for service given to the organisation by non-Salvationists.[134]
Controversies
[edit]Stance on LGBT rights
[edit]Because the Salvation Army is a church, Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 allows it to inquire into people's religious beliefs in its hiring practices. The Salvation Army states that it does not "discriminate against hiring gays and lesbians for the majority of its roughly 55,000 jobs,"[135] but has historically supported legislation which would allow it to deny employment and federally-funded services to LGBT individuals.[136][137] [138]
In 1986, The Salvation Army campaigned throughout New Zealand against the Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986, which decriminalised homosexuality.[139] In 2006, the Army released a statement regretting the ill feelings that persisted following its activity. It stated in part "We do understand though that The Salvation Army's official opposition to the Reform Bill was deeply hurtful to many, and are distressed that ill-feeling still troubles our relationship with segments of the gay community. We regret any hurt that may remain from that turbulent time and our present hope is to rebuild bridges of understanding and dialogue between our movement and the gay community."[140]
In 1997, the city of San Francisco enacted a law requiring all companies doing business with the city government to extend domestic benefits to same-sex partners of employees. In refusing to do so, the Salvation Army declined a US$3.5 million contract.[141] In 2001, the Salvation Army pressed the Bush Administration to exempt it and other religious groups from anti-discrimination legislation which it felt infringed on the organisation's religious freedoms. This request was denied, and was sharply rebuked by David Smith, then-spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign. "Gays and lesbians are taxpayers, too," said Smith. "Their money should not be used by religious groups to fund discriminatory practices against them."[135][142][143]
In February 2000, the Salvation Army in the United Kingdom publicly opposed the repeal of Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, which prevented local authorities from "intentionally promot[ing] homosexuality".[144]
The Salvation Army Western Territory approved a plan in October 2001 to start offering domestic partnership benefits to employees in same-sex relationships.[145] Members of various evangelical Christian interest groups protested the decision. Focus on the Family founder James Dobson excoriated the Salvation Army for abandoning its "moral integrity" and urged his radio listeners to bombard the organisation's offices with phone calls and letters. The American Family Association also accused the Salvation Army of a "monstrous... appeasement of sin" that resulted in a "betrayal of the church". In November 2001 the Salvation Army US-wide rescinded the Western Territory's decision with an announcement that it would only provide benefits coverage for different-sex spouses and dependent children of its employees.[citation needed]
In 2004, the Salvation Army said that it would close operations in New York City unless it was exempted from a municipal ordinance requiring them to offer benefits to gay employees' partners. The City Council refused to make the exemption. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's administration chose not to enforce the ordinance. The administration's right to decline to enforce the ordinance was upheld by the New York State Court of Appeals in 2006.[146]
In 2008, a trans woman named Jennifer Gale died outside a church in Austin, Texas. A city council member attributed her death to workers at a Salvation Army shelter refusing to house her in the women's quarters.[147] The city council member later partially retracted their statements, stating "The Salvation Army... do apparently have a policy of non-discrimination and they do not turn trans people away, but I'm not fully sold on their ability to actually understand the issue. If they are not full they will give trans people privacy (maybe they have private quarters of some sort), but if full and they are in an overflow shelter situation, as they were Tuesday night, I am under the impression that they will assign people according to their anatomy."[148]
Between 2010 and 2013, a "position statement" with regard to "same-sex" "sexual orientations" was published on the Salvation Army's website:[149][150]
Scripture forbids sexual intimacy between members of the same sex. The Salvation Army believes, therefore, that Christians whose sexual orientation is primarily or exclusively same-sex are called upon to embrace celibacy as a way of life. There is no scriptural support for same-sex unions as equal to, or as an alternative to, heterosexual marriage.
Likewise, there is no scriptural support for demeaning or mistreating anyone for reason of his or her sexual orientation. The Salvation Army opposes any such abuse.
In keeping with these convictions, the services of The Salvation Army are available to all who qualify, without regard to sexual orientation.
This position statement was deleted by June 2012,[150] replaced by a statement that the organisation's position on homosexuality is under review.[151]
On 15 December 2012, in Canada, Andrea Le Good noticed a Salvation Army bell-ringer carrying a sign reading "if you support gay rights: please do not donate". While the bell-ringer claimed he had permission from the charity to wear the sign, Salvation Army spokeswoman Kyla Ferns said that it had no part in the sign, and that the bell-ringer was pulled away immediately when the charity learned about it.[151]
In November 2013, it was made known that the Salvation Army was referring LGBT individuals to one of several conversion therapy groups.[152] As a response, the Salvation Army removed links to the conversion groups from their website.[153]
In 2016, The Salvation Army withdrew support for an Australian safe schools program that focused on LGBT students,[139] stating that "the provision of a government approved anti-bullying program needs to consider all high risk student groups."[154]
In November 2019, according to The Dallas Morning News, "singer Ellie Goulding... threaten[ed] to cancel her performance at the Cowboys' Thanksgiving halftime show" out of concern for "the LGBTQ community" following negative responses to an Instagram post that she made promoting the organisation:[155][156]
"Upon researching this, I have reached out to The Salvation Army and said that I would have no choice but to pull out unless they very quickly make a solid, committed pledge or donation to the LGBTQ community," she wrote. "I am a committed philanthropist as you probably know, and my heart has always been in helping the homeless, but supporting an anti-LGBTQ charity is clearly not something I would ever intentionally do. Thank you for drawing my attention to this."
The show "serves as the kickoff for the Salvation Army's yearly Red Kettle Campaign". Goulding later opted to perform.[156][157]
In 2019, 2020, and 2021, The Salvation Army continued to be criticized in publications like Vox, Forbes, and Out, for homophobic and transphobic views and practices expressed by its leaders and policies, such as in public statements and lobbying.[158][159]
The Salvation Army's response
[edit]A positional statement on the Salvation Army U.K. and Ireland site stated (but has since been taken down):
The Salvation Army teaches that sexual acts should take place only in a monogamous heterosexual marriage, believing that this reflects God's intentions for sexual behaviour and provides the best environment for raising children.[160]
The positional statement is, however, intended explicitly for members of the Salvation Army[161] and the Salvation Army mission statement as of 2013 states:
The Salvation Army stands against homophobia, which victimises people and can reinforce feelings of alienation, loneliness and despair. We want to be an inclusive church community where members of the LGBT community find welcome and the encouragement to develop their relationship with God... Our international mission statement is very clear on this point when it says we will "meet human needs in [Jesus'] name without discrimination". Anyone who comes through our doors will be welcomed with love and service, based on their need and our capacity to provide.[162]
As of November 2013[update], activists were still calling on the Salvation Army to change its stance on LGBT issues, citing ongoing discrimination.[163][164]
As of April 2018[update], the "Inclusion" page on the official U.K. website stated that the Salvation Army stands against homophobia and does not permit discrimination in its employment practices or delivery of care.[165]
As of 2018[update], the U.S.A. Central Territory website explicitly states that it serves and welcomes the LGBT community.[166]
On the website of its U.S.A. division, the organisation currently maintains an informative/promotional document titled "The LGBTQ Community and The Salvation Army" which states (among other things) that it is "committed to serving the LGBTQ community"; "[w]hen a transgender person seeks help from us, we serve them in the same manner as any other person seeking assistance"; it "is an Equal Opportunity Employer" with regard to "sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression" (et al.); and that it "provide[s] benefits to the spouses of employees in same-sex marriages".[167]
Calgary Toy Incident
[edit]During the 2010 Christmas season, a chapter of the Salvation Army in Calgary, Alberta, refused to accept toys based on the Harry Potter and Twilight franchises because it viewed them as promoting black magic.[168]
Proselytising during government-funded social service in New York
[edit]In 2004, the Salvation Army's New York division was named in a lawsuit filed by 18 current and former employees of its social service arm, claiming that the organisation asked about the religious and sexual habits of employees in programs funded by local and state government. One member claimed the organisation forced them to agree "to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ".[169] Proselytising or otherwise pursuing religious motives in a government-funded program is generally considered a violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution. While the employment-discrimination portion of the lawsuit was dismissed in 2005, government agencies agreed in a 2010 settlement to set up monitoring systems to ensure that the Army did not violate church–state separation in its publicly funded projects. The organisation did not dispute allegations that nine-year-olds in a city-funded foster care program were put through a "confirmation-like" ceremony, where they were given Bibles and prayed over.[170]
Australian sex abuse cases
[edit]From the 1940s to the 1980s the Salvation Army in Australia sheltered approximately 30,000 children. In 2006 the Australian division of the Salvation Army acknowledged that sexual abuse may have occurred during this time and issued an apology. In it, the Army explicitly rejected a claim, made by a party unnamed in the apology, that there were as many as 500 potential claimants.[171]
In 2013 it was reported that private settlements totalling A$15.5 million had been made in Victoria relating to 474 abuse cases; a Salvation Army spokesman said that "This should not have happened and this was a breach of the trust placed in us" and that they were "deeply sorry" whilst claiming that the abuse was "the result of individuals and not a culture within the organisation".[172]
In 2014, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, a royal commission of inquiry initiated in 2013 by the Australian Government and supported by all of its state governments,[173] began investigating abuse cases at the Alkira Salvation Army Home for Boys at Indooroopilly; the Riverview Training Farm (also known as Endeavour Training Farm) at Riverview – both in Queensland; the Bexley Boys' Home at Bexley; and the Gill Memorial Home at Goulburn – both in New South Wales. The investigation also examined the Salvation Army's processes in investigating, disciplining, removing, and transferring anyone accused of or found to have engaged in child sexual abuse in these homes.[174][175][176] On 27 March 2014, the Royal Commission began investigating the handling by the Salvation Army (Eastern Territory) of claims of child sexual abuse between 1993 and 2014.[177][178][179]
Racism guide
[edit]In November 2021, The Salvation Army released a guidance pamphlet titled "Let's Talk About Racism" which encouraged its members to "lament, repent and apologize for biases or racist ideologies held and actions committed."[180] According to Fox News, this was interpreted by critics as an endorsement of critical race theory, during a time of broader public controversy around CRT in the United States.[181][unreliable source] In response, The Salvation Army called the accusations "sensationalist" and "simply not true", and that they had never told people to "apologize for the color of their skin" or "abandoned its Biblical beliefs".[182] After the continued backlash they retracted the document and again stated that they do not endorse any ideology or belief system other than Christianity and reject the idea that "America is an inherently racist society".[183] The anti-CRT group Color Us United promised to "continue its battle" with The Salvation Army despite these statements.[184][better source needed]
Rogue landlord allegations
[edit]In April 2022 an investigation by The Guardian and ITV news found serious problems at properties owned and rented out by the Salvation Army in Hadleigh, Essex. They found that tenants had been exposed to "serious" hazards for at least seven years and that many of the properties were not in line with fire regulations. A 2014 survey, commissioned by the Salvation Army, found damp and breaches of fire regulations. Residents of one property reported a hole in their roof to Salvation Army's agent six years prior to the newspaper's investigation. A resident of one house said, "There's the damp problem, obviously the roof, because we need to keep the heat in the house not having it blowing up out the house. The windows and doors don't fit properly...(I) have to have the heating on 24 hours a day to keep the house warm (in the winter)." The managing director of the environmental health consultancy Building Forensics, Jeff Charlton, found mould on a wall next to the bed of an asthmatic child in another home.[citation needed]
Alan Read, the Salvation Army's managing director, met with residents in 2018 and issued an apology for neglecting them. Many of the 40 residents at the meeting were left with the impression they could be evicted if the Salvation Army could not afford to carry out repairs.[citation needed]
The local authority, Castle Point Borough Council, wrote to the Salvation Army in March 2019 warning it would take legal action over the condition of the properties. In 2022 The Guardian and ITV News found conditions within the homes had not improved since the Castle Point Borough Council's warning in 2019. The behaviour of the Salvation Army was described as a "sordid mess" by an environmental officer at the Council. Category one and category two hazards were found by the Council's environmental department. Category one hazards include risks of "death, permanent paralysis, permanent loss of consciousness, loss of a limb or serious fracture".[citation needed]
In April 2022 the local authority issued improvement notices to the Salvation Army, which was criticised for not carrying out repairs at the same time it was spending an estimated £32 million on a new territorial headquarters building in Southwark, London. The Salvation Army said the new territorial headquarters was funded by the sale of its old headquarters, not by donations or rental income from tenants.[citation needed]
The Salvation Army released a statement saying, "It is clear that we let down the tenants of Seaview Terrace and Mount Zion and we are deeply sorry. Considerable refurbishment and improvement work is already underway. We have employed a contractor as a Project Manager dedicated to Hadleigh and will be employing a Building Surveyor on a permanent basis to focus on Hadleigh going forward".[citation needed]
The MP for Castle Point, Rebecca Harris said she had repeated meetings with the Salvation Army over a number of years to try and get the church to improve living conditions. She said, "They kept making promises that failed to materialise."[185]
Kroc Centres
[edit]In 2004, the Army in the United States received a US$1.6 billion donation in the will of Joan B. Kroc, the third wife of former McDonald's CEO Ray Kroc. This donation was among the larger individual philanthropic gifts ever given to a single organisation. The donation came with certain restrictions, such as requiring the funds to be used on new rather than existing centers.[186] As of 2023, 26 new centers were opened using these funds.[187]
Kettle Concerns
[edit]In Nov. 2024 the Canadian company Crombie REIT said at it's Avalon Mall property that the Salvation Army was not allowed because they updated their "community impact strategy" and will no longer be partnering with any organizations affiliated with religion
Crombie REIT said organizations that align with its new "community impact strategy" include the United Way, the First Light Friendship Centre and the Canadian Mental Health Association,
They later said it would be the last year their for their campaign
In films
[edit]The Salvation Army is featured in many popular movies such as Guys and Dolls and Major Barbara.[188] A book detailing over 500 films in which the Salvation Army appears or is mentioned was published in 2020 entitled The Salvation Army at the Movies.[189]
The Salvation Army began producing silent films when they started their own film studio called The Limelight Department in 1892,[190] which was the first in Australia. The original studio still stands today and is being preserved by the Salvation Army. One of the films was a documentary called Inauguration of the Australian Commonwealth.[190] In the years between 1898 and 1909, The Limelight Department produced over 300 films and documented Australia's Federation Ceremonies in 1909.[190]
See also
[edit]- The Salvation Army in Australia
- The Salvation Army, Canada
- Booth University College
- Chalk Farm Salvation Army Band
- Chief of the Staff of The Salvation Army
- "Follow On" (hymn)
- Generals of The Salvation Army
- Maidenhead Citadel Band
- Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network
- Soldier in The Salvation Army
- The Salvation Army in Namibia
- The Salvation Army USA
- World Vision
- Church Army
- Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885
- Salvation Army Boys Adventure Corps
- Army of the Lord (Romanian Eastern Orthodox renewal movement)
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External links
[edit]- The Salvation Army International official website
- The Salvation Army United States official website
- The Salvation Army Emergency Disaster Services
- Timeline of Salvation Army development
- Salvation Army: – Association of Religion Data Archives Archived 28 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- Documents and clippings about The Salvation Army in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW