3 September 2020 | The government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) has decided to declare the country a Christian nation and has gained the support of the Seventh-day Adventist leadership in the country. Pastor Kepsie Elodo, president of the Papua New Guinea Union Mission, said the decision was appropriate, given that 96% of the population […]
News reports from Loma Linda University Health; NAD Youth Ministries; Hamburg, Germany; Brasilia, Brazil; Fiji’s correctional service; Adventist Community Services and Pacific Union College: Work on the Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children’s Hospital tower construction project hit a new milestone recently with the installation of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging units. A Loma Linda […]
Dr. Lisa Beardsley-Hardy, education director for the General Conference, says the history of Adventist education reveals crisis and the threat of closure are not new. Beardsley-Hardy pointed out Battle Creek College, although run by the Seventh-day Adventists, started out as a secular school that did not have Bible study courses in the curriculum. As tertiary education […]
31 August 2020 | About 80 Adventists gathered in Kenosha, Wisconsin to pray on Saturday. They met at Library Park in the center of town to pray and then spread out to assist with local cleanup efforts. Kenosha, Wisconsin, has been the scene of widespread protests after the August 23 shooting of an African American […]
On August 6, Adventist leaders in Colombia took part in a celebration of the 482nd birthday of the city of Bogotá. The event also served as a ceremony to honor those who have died from the coronavirus pandemic. The Health Ministry in Colombia reports that there are currently more than 345,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the […]
27 August 2020 | “Our hearts go out to the Blake family and the other families who’ve been impacted by the tragic events in Kenosha,” said Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson in his remarks at the Republical National Convention tonight. Carson, the only Adventist in President Donald Trump’s cabinet, voiced his support for […]
News reports from Adventist Health Glendale; an Adventist soccer star in Europe; Escondido Adventist Academy; Kenosha, Wisconsin; and the Haven Nelson SDA Church in Nelson, New Zealand: Adventist Health Glendale has ranked in the top 5% of hospitals in California as well as in the top 10% of hospitals in the Los Angeles region. U.S. […]
This article has been updated to include information shared with Adventist Today by Adventist Health since the initial version of this report was published. 27 August 2020 | News has emerged of senior executives leaving the Adventist Health network of hospitals and other healthcare entities. The Sacramento Business Journal reported Mark Ashlock, former president of […]
25 August 2020 | Adventist firefighting pilot Tom Duffy was assisting efforts to battle a wildfire in Mount Hood National Forest when the helicopter he was in crashed on Monday. The forty-year-old was killed in the accident. The Gleanernow reported Duffy was the only person involved in the crash. According to U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Rachel […]
Montemorelos started the school year on August 11 with over 2,400 students. The university will run all its classes online for the first semester of the 2020-2021 school year. From the Inter-America Division/ANN 24 August 2020 | Officials of Montemorelos University welcomed more than 2,400 students – a record enrollment – to the new school […]
Pacific Union College has been evacuated. About 25 wildfires are raging in the Northern California Conference (NCC) territory as of August 21, 2020. No churches, schools, or properties within the NCC territory have been damaged. All pastors, teachers, and conference staff who were ordered to evacuate did so safely. 23 August 2020 | From Northern […]
On August 20, the General Conference Executive Committee met virtually to receive the name of Kyoshin Ahn, the recommendation for division secretary from both the North American Division’s standing nominating committee and executive committee. Ahn was confirmed in a vote of 118 to 2. Ahn replaces G. Alexander Bryant, who was voted NAD president to replace the […]
