16 March 2021 | In a March 9 article, New Zealand’s Stuff news site published the complaint of a woman from Lower Hutt, a city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand’s North Island, whose 11-year-old daughter was being asked to distribute a religious book about the Sunday Law on her paper route. Haley Rivas […]
12 March 2021 | According to HRDIVE, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) claims a Miami hotel unlawfully fired an Adventist employee over her religious views. The Adventist woman was fired for refusing to work on Saturday. The EEOC says that in terminating the Adventist employee, Noble House Solé, LLC violated Title VII of […]
12 March 2021 | A March 10 article on the National Public Radio (NPR) website featured views of various religious groups on the Equality Act, a potential revision of US federal civil rights law that would extend protection to LGBTQ people. The Equality Act has twice passed the House but has been blocked by Republicans […]
12 March 2021 | Eva Cristina García Pérez, an Adventist pre-school teacher in Spain, won the Educa Abanca designation for “Best Teacher in Spain 2020.” Revista Adventista España reported the teacher ranked #8 of ten finalists awarded the prize in the Early Childhood Education category. Pérez attends Murcia Adventist Church in south-eastern Spain. She has […]
News reports from Tanzania, Loma Linda School of Allied Health, ADRA International, the British Virgin Islands and a bar in Fiji: The Kilimanjaro Premium Lager Marathon 2021 took place on Sunday, February 28, 2021. The event was based out of Moshi Cooperatives University in Moshi, Tanzania, and featured a full-length marathon, a half marathon and […]
10 March 2021 | Last Sabbath, March 6, the 5th Riga Congregation (the second largest Adventist congregation in Latvia) withdrew from the Latvian Conference. An Adventist Today correspondent reported the reason for this withdrawal was a conference decision to dismiss Girts Rozners, the pastor of the 5th Riga Congregation and the Bauska Adventist Church. Rozners […]
62-year-old Moreno Valley resident Margarita Martinez was the first patient to receive a haploidentical stem cell transplant at the LLU Cancer Center. Martinez is one of the few patients in the region who have benefited from the hematopoietic stem cell transplant — a type of transplant in which stem cells produce blood cells — offered […]
The denomination remains concerned that the Equality Act as drafted would further erode the religious liberty of faith communities and their members. Support for the Equality Act has diminished while support of the Fairness for All Act, which was reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday, February 26, has grown. The NAD and […]
5 March 2021 | In a March 3 article titled “At-Risk Behaviors on the Rise During this Pandemic,” the General Conference of the Adventist denomination identified porn use as a behavior to avoid during the COVID-19 pandemic. Authored by Alina M. Baltazar, Duane C. McBride, Gary L. Hopkins, and Peter N. Landless, the article also […]
5 March 2021 | It wasn’t until February 21 this year that the Tanzanian Health Ministry acknowledged the presence of COVID-19 in the country. Tanzania’s president, John Magufuli, had for months denied the presence of the virus. Magufuli claimed Tanzania had defeated COVID with God’s help last year. He changed course last month, urging precautions […]
News from Atlantic Union College, Vice.com, McDonalds, Yale University and Florence, Italy: The Worcester Business Journal (WBJ) reported that now-closed Atlantic Union College is having to make improvements to its campus ahead of a sale to an unnamed school. Quoting Elias Zabala, the treasurer and CFO of the Atlantic Union Conference, the WBJ says challenges […]
Shaw was voted in unanimously by Southern’s Board of Trustees. He starts as Southern’s president on June 1. Shaw will be Southern’s first alum to return as president. For the past seven years, Shaw has served as president of Southwestern Adventist University in Keene, Texas. From Southern Adventist University – 4 March 2021 | The […]
