April 5, 2017: The Adventist Church is part of a group of 99 religious and denominational entities that have joined forces to combat what many perceive as a threat to the separation of church and state. On April 4, the inter-faith group sent a joint letter to Congress supporting the Johnson Amendment, a […]
April 4, 2017: An online video appearing to be a promotional piece for Adventist Ghana-based Valley View University has gone viral on Facebook. The reason the video drew widespread attention appears to be its amateurish production value. In the video which is branded with the university logo, clips of what appears to be a […]
April 3, 2017: Adventist Health and Catholic-owned Providence Health & Services have announced a major transition for Walla Walla General Hospital. The control of the facility, as well as Adventist Health Medical Group in Walla Walla and Adventist Health Home Care Services in Walla Walla, will be transfered to Providence. The shift for the […]
April 2, 2017: The ground-breaking for a $20 million, 120-bed skilled nursing facility being built by Adventist Health System took place March 30. The facility is being built in the Celebration development in Central Florida’s Osceola County. According to the Orlando Business Journal, the skilled nursing facility will create 150 new jobs when it […]
March 30, 2017: Veteran Adventist evangelist Doug Batchelor has arrived in Papua New Guinea to a grand, politically-charged welcome. Papua New Guinea’s news site PNG Facts reported that the country’s opposition leader and former Prime Minister Don Polye received the evangelist. Batchelor had come to the country for an evangelistic campaign run by his […]
March 29, 2017: Police investigating a bomb threat to Littleton Adventist Hospital tonight have determined the threat was not credible. Television station FOX31 Denver reported that the hospital was placed on modified security status after the report of a possible bomb threat. The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office reported receiving a call with the threat. […]
March 28, 2017: Nancy Abu-Bonsrah, a Ghanaian-born Adventist, has made history by becoming the first black female to become a resident at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s neurosurgical department. The neurosurgery program at Johns Hopkins is highly prestigious and only admits 2 to 5 residents. Ben Carson, the current United States secretary of Housing […]
March 27, 2017: Conscientious objector and World War II veteran Desmond Doss will be honored with a new state historical marker in Lynchburg, Virginia. The city’s News & Advance newspaper reported on March 25 that the marker is a roadway sign aimed at educating the public about the connection Doss has to Lynchburg. The […]
March 26, 2017: A man in the town of Nixa, Missouri shot himself outside an Adventist Church on Saturday, March 25. NBC affiliate television station KY3 reported that the man’s suicide came at the end of a multi-hour standoff in the Christian County town. Police negotiators attempted to talk the man out of killing […]
March 23, 2017: The Kuwait Times newspaper published an article this week titled “Getting to Know the Christians in Kuwait.” In it Adventists were profiled as a thriving, albeit not officially licensed denomination. Although Kuwait’s official religion is Islam, the constitution allows for freedom of religious belief and practice. The Adventist Church in Kuwait […]
March 22, 2017: Pastor Seth Asare Nyarko, president of the newly-created Diamond-field Ghana Conference of the Adventist Church recently made an appeal for his denomination to take the lead in national efforts to protect the environment. Speaking at his induction as conference president, Nyarko insisted that his denomination could not be indifferent to the […]
March 21, 2017: Unity 2017, a conference organized to explore “unity in diversity in the Seventh-day Adventist Church” will be held in London, England from June 15-17, 2017. The event was organized by leadership from four world divisions (regions) of the Adventist denomination. According to the Unity 2017 website, the intent is to “explore […]
