2 March 2020 | According to ABC 30 KFSN, public health officials in Tulare County, California, say there is no evidence pointing to a COVID-19 (coronavirus) infection in the patient put in isolation at Adventist Health Tulare on Sunday. More tests are pending to conclusively determine if the patient has contracted the virus. The Fresno […]
1 March 2020 | The Fresno Bee reported today that a patient with symptoms similar to the coronavirus, or COVID-19, has been admitted to Adventist Health Tulare. It is not clear whether the patient in the Tulare, California-based hospital has the virus, since a positive test result has not yet been confirmed. The Adventist-run hospital […]
27 February 2020 | The Adventist Church in Fiji is partnering with the Fiji Corrections Service to both fight crime and reduce the rate of criminal reoffense in the country. The fijivillage news site reported that the Fiji Corrections Service has started work with various denominations to help address these issues in communities. The Corrections […]
News reports from Loma Linda University Health; the Adventist Church headquarters in Germany; Pasadena, California; the Golden Crust food brand; the Today Show and the Kilimanjaro Marathon: Loma Linda University Health has shared the video of a Facebook Live session in which a panel of experts from the university and local county departments of public […]
From EUD News – 26 February 2020 | On Saturday, 25 January the pastor of a local church congregation in Italy signed a joint declaration with other faith groups which, while focused on respectful dialogue among and between different religious denominations, contained some statements which run counter to Seventh-day Adventist principles regarding inter-church relations. The […]
25 February 2020 | An appeal by an Adventist former Walgreens employee suing the pharmacy chain for religious bias was turned away by the U. S. Supreme Court this Monday. Lower courts had ruled that Darrell Patterson’s request never to work on Saturday placed undue hardship on Walgreens. Patterson was fired in 2011 for not […]
24 February 2020 | The Italian Union of Churches Conference has asked the Adventist churches in five regions of northern Italy to close on Saturday, February 29. The drastic action by the Adventist leadership in the country joins extreme measures taken across Italy to halt the rapid spread of the coronavirus. Public events such as […]
From a Loma Linda University Health news report – 23 February 2020 | Cases of people contracting the novel coronavirus — COVID-19 — have reached nearly 75,000 since the disease began its spread late last year. The quick nature of transition and unknown elements of the strain have led to many questions with few answers. […]
20 February 2020 | A team of archaeologists led by Professor Yosef Garfinkel at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology and Prof. Michael Hasel at Collegedale, Tennessee-based Southern Adventist University, have unearthed the remains of a Canaanite temple. Intermountain Jewish News reported today that the 12th century BCE temple was found in the […]
News reports from Loma Linda University Health; The Cognitive Genesis study; the Lake Union; London, UK; Australia and Calexico Mission School: Loma Linda University Health, along with Adventist Health International, held its first global leadership conference in India, primarily serving healthcare administrators in the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Southern Asia and Southern Asia-Pacific divisions. Nearly 150 […]
From ANN – 19 February 2020 | In the aftermath of a series of earthquakes, which have forced more than 800 public schools to close, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Puerto Rico is offering free enrollment to its church-operated schools across the island. “We are not sure when schools across the island will open again […]
18 February 2020 | Authorities in China seized “illegal” Bibles in a raid on a state-authorized Three-Self Seventh-day Adventist Church in December of last year according to the Christian Headlines website. Legal churches in China are designated as Three-Self congregations. The location of the Adventist congregation targeted by the December raid was not disclosed, although […]
