From ANN – As Australia’s bushfire crisis continues, here’s an update on how Adventists have been impacted and what the Church is doing to support fire-impacted communities. Cobargo the worst affected in NSW Cobargo, in south-east New South Wales, has been the worst affected area in the state, with the township engulfed by fire. Seven […]
5 January 2020 | Multiple media outlets are reporting that Helio S. Ferreira, a man who served as an Adventist pastor in Georgia, has been arrested, charged with multiple counts of sexual assault. He is accused of sexually assaulting three women over a six-year period when he was living in or visiting Oregon’s Multnomah County. […]
2 January 2020 | The United States Congress has repealed what was being called the “parking lot tax” which had been part of a 2017 tax cut measure that would have taxed churches and other entities on benefits they afforded employees. Dan Jackson, president of the North American Division of the Adventist Church, had joined […]
News reports from Loma Linda University Health, Kettering Adventist Health Network; Isny, Germany; Dr. Richard Osborn; Andrews University and the Adventist Peace Fellowship: This week, Loma Linda University Health posted a short and very timely health tip on its Facebook page. It was labeled #NewYearsResolutions: The key to keeping resolutions is to keep them realistic […]
1 January 2020 | In a December 28 letter to the editor in the Minnesota-based Post Bulletin, an Adventist physician has defended his nutritional research and that of other Adventists. John Shin, a hematology/medical oncology fellow at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, fought back at suggestions that dietary research by Adventists should require disclosure […]
31 December 2019 | Uganda’s president has praised the “oneness” among religions promoted by an interfaith council to which the nation’s Adventists belong alongside the Catholic Church, Muslim representatives and other religious groups. The country’s Uganda Media Center (UMC) describes the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda as “an indigenous national faith-based organization that strives to promote […]
29 December 2019 | Earlier this month, Orlando Weekly reported that AdventHealth was donating $1 million to the onePulse foundation, the 501(c)(3) charity set up to memorialize victims of the shooting that killed 49 guests at the Pulse nightclub on June 12, 2016. The funds will help build the National Pulse Memorial & Museum that […]
29 December 2019 | The reigning Miss Zimbabwe, Belinda Potts, visited an Adventist orphanage in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, on Christmas Day. Potts joined representatives from well-known soccer team Highlanders Football Club as well as designer Thembani Mubochwa as the group visited Queen Elizabeth’s Children’s Home to present a gift of groceries and clothes. The gift was […]
26 December 2019 | Inside Out Ministries, an Adventist congregation in Salem, Oregon, has set up a new shelter for homeless women in the community. The effort aims to address the prevalent problem of assaults on homeless women in Salem. Seventy percent of the Inside Out Congregation has been or is currently homeless, according to […]
News reports from Kiev, Ukraine; Orangewood Academy; Stockton, California; the Canadian Parliament and Seattle, Washington: The Jewish Adventist friendship congregation in Kiev, Ukraine, has advertised a Chanukah celebration which will be held on December 29. Alexandra Obrevko is the congregation’s leader. Orangewood Academy’s girls basketball team ranked 3rd in Orange County and 27th in the […]
25 December 2019 | A 68-year-old grandmother was able to enjoy the holidays at home, thanks to a life-saving alternate procedure to open heart surgery at Loma Linda University Health earlier this month. Anita Bayerque was the recipient of the 500th TAVR procedure (transcatheter aortic valve replacement) performed by Loma Linda University International Heart Institute. […]
24 December 2019 | An Adventist congregation in the town of Moberly, Missouri, gave away 150 bikes to its community this year for Christmas. Moberly Seventh-day Adventist Church partnered with the North American Division (NAD) of the denomination for the congregation’s first-ever giveaway of this kind. “We just want to make Christmas extra-special,” said Moberly […]
