December 10, 2017: Gunmen fired at mourners attending a funeral at an Adventist church in Jamaica on December 9. The funeral was being held at Kings Chapel Seventh-day Adventist Church in East Kingston. A witness told the Jamaica Gleaner that the shooting took place soon after an offering was collected at the service. She estimated […]
December 7, 2017: Jay Gallimore, the president of the Adventist denomination’s Michigan Conference and an outspoken opponent of women’s ordination, has announced that he will retire from the office on January 31, 2018. His December 6 announcement (sent out to conference officials, pastors, teachers and its lay advisory coordinating committee) is printed in full […]
December 6, 2017: A tipster has helped identify the man who allegedly shot at an Adventist church in Gaithersburg, Maryland on two occasions last month. WTOP, a Washington D.C. news site, reported that law enforcement arrested Peter Kevin Banfield, a 35-year-old Gaithersburg resident for shooting at New Life Seventh-day Adventist Church. On November 15, a […]
From ANN, December 5, 2017: December 1 was World AIDS Day and with it came a report on the Adventist denomination’s efforts to combat the AIDS pandemic. The Adventist AIDS International Ministry (AAIM) was established in 2002 by the General Conference headquarters of the church. AAIM was set up to address the theological, moral, […]
December 4, 2017: This December, surgeons at Porter and Parker Adventist hospitals in the Denver, Colorado area are offering six joint replacement surgeries free of charge to patients in financial need. According to PR Newswire, the surgeries are part of the nationwide Operation Walk program which aims to give life-changing orthopedic surgeries to the […]
December 3, 2017: A Community Care care program offered by Florida Hospital is seeking to reduce avoidable Emergency Department visits by offering free preventive care to the chronically ill who do not have insurance. The site H&HN (Hospital & Health Networks) reported that Florida Hospital had noticed a pattern of uninsured patients with chronic […]
November 30, 2017: In a November 29 article titled “Ongoing Tragedy: Florida Nursing Homes and State Government Block Seniors Access to Medicine,” Huffington Post contributor, Gary J Stein critiqued an Adventist-run Assisted Living Facility in Pasco County, Florida, for refusing a patient the use of medical cannabis. Stein referred to a controversial case originally […]
November 30, 2017: On November 25 the Adventist Church launched a campaign titled 16 Days of Activism to end violence against women and girls. November 25 is designated worldwide as the International Day to End Gender-based Violence. Through the leadership of the denomination’s Women’s Ministries Department, the activism will continue until December 10, the […]
From ANN, November 29, 2017: Rick McEdward, president of the Adventist Church in the Middle East and North Africa, has strongly condemned the terrorist attack on Al-Rawdah mosque in the town of Bir al-Abed in Sinai, Egypt. The November 24 attack claimed the lives of over 300 worshippers, including 27 children, while injuring a […]
November 27, 2017: The 2017 year-end meetings for the Trans-European Division of the Adventist Church were praised for their “gracious” approach to a document that has caused considerable controversy in the denomination worldwide. “You have been very gracious in expressing your concerns on procedures used in processing the Reconciliation Document #2. You conducted your […]
November 26, 2017: A recent letter was sent from the president of the Northern California Conference of the Adventist Church to the pastors in his conference on the issue of sexual orientation. In the October 10 letter, James E. Pedersen reminded pastors that the official policy of the denomination forbids receiving into membership anyone […]
November 23, 2017: Sonya Carson, the mother of Ben Carson, current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, passed away earlier this month. Ben Carson, an Adventist, announced his mother’s November 6 death in a Facebook post the same day. The former neurosurgeon said that despite his mother’s impoverished start in life, she […]
