December 27, 2016: A short film created by a Southern Adventist University film teacher was featured in a music video by Swedish dream pop band Immanu EL. The 4-minute film titled Elegy was originally created by film teacher Nicholas Livanos with the assistance of Southern students. Livanos submitted it to film festivals where it […]
December 26, 2016: Select patients were treated to some holiday cheer at Glendale Adventist Medical Center (GAMC) as the hospital’s healthcare foundation partnered with the city’s Bloomingdale’s department store to give out teddy bears as gifts of encouragement on December 22. The Glendale News-Press reports that GAMC nurses were asked to help identify patients […]
December 25, 2016: The son of the headmaster of Zimbabwe’s Solusi Adventist High School drowned in the country’s Zambezi River in an alleged attempt to save his girlfriend. Muzi Tshuma, 22, was enrolled in the Zimbabwe’s National University of Science and Technology (Nust). He was taking part in an Adventist Youth Camp when the […]
December 21, 2016: Lawsuits similar to one filed against Adventist Health System have been filed against three religious hospital systems’ pension plans and have reached the Supreme Court. ReligiousLiberty.TV reports that the Supreme Court agreed to hear the cases (Advocate Health, Dignity Health, and St. Peter’s Healthcare System) involving the hospital systems’ pension plans and […]
December 20, 2016: Adventist Health System has bought 67.24 acres of land in the Orlando area’s Lake Nona community for a sale price of $8 million. The Orlando Sentinel reports that the land was purchased from the Daryl M Carter Trust and contains 10 acres of submerged property as well as an additional […]
December 19, 2016: Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge was the biggest winner at the 2016 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards. The war epic about the heroics of Adventist conscientious objector Desmond T. Doss was nominated for 13 AACTAs and ulitmately won in 9 categories, including best film and best director for controversial […]
From APD, December 18, 2016: Adventist Pastor Dragutin Matak of Croatia was honored with the Croatian Helsinki Committee’s 2016 Human Rights Award. Matak received the award in Zagreb on December 9 for his commitment to human rights, religious freedom and interfaith dialogue. In addition to his role as an Adventist pastor, Matak is a […]
December 15, 2016: Eric Anderson, Walter C. Utt Professor of History at Pacific Union College, has been elected as the school’s new president from January 9 to June 30, 2017. “I am grateful to Dr. Anderson for agreeing to take on this important leadership role,” said Board Chairman Bradford Newton, in an announcement on […]
December 14, 2016: On the heels of last week’s announcement that Terry Shaw had been named president and CEO of Adventist Health System, the network announced a new chief operating officer (COO) in Lars Houmann. Houmann has worked for AHS for 25 years and also has extensive experience working for hospitals outside the system. […]
December 13, 2016: Director Mel Gibson’s war epic Hacksaw Ridge has been nominated for three Golden Globe awards. The movie, which depicts the real life heroism of Adventist conscientious objector and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Desmond Doss, was nominated for best drama, best actor for Andrew Garfield and best director for Gibson himself. […]
From APD Deutschland, December 12, 2016: Commemorating International Human Rights Day on December 10, the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO) presented its annual report “Conscientious Objection in Europe 2016.” EBCO Chairman Friedhelm Schneider, who represents the Protestant Association for Conscientious Objection and Peace (EWC) in the human rights organization, delivered the report with […]
December 11, 2016: In an announcement on December 8, Adventist Health System named Terry Shaw as the president and CEO of Adventist Health System, which includes 46 hospital campuses in 10 states. He succeeds Don Jernigan, who held the top job for 10 years before announcing his retirement in August. Shaw started at AHS […]
