Incident began when Zendre Pollard’s son allegedly bullied by another student, then Pollard’s son retaliated. Other student’s mother then came to the school to attack him with a belt. Restraining order filed against Kady Ann Sewell, who was also charged with child abuse. Pollard questioning security of Bethel Junior Academy, that someone could walk into […]
The AHSAA said Oakwood had agreed to follow the rules of the association and participate in all playoff games without petition or forfeit. Oakwood Academy knew that playoff games were usually held on a Friday or Saturday, and that a “specific discussion” was held on the matter, according to the AHSAA statement. AHSAA said it […]
Lawsuit claims AHSAA showed religious discrimination against Oakwood Adventist Academy in refusing to accommodate its Seventh-day Adventist beliefs “for no reason other than bureaucratic intransigence.” Suit said the AHSAA prohibits scheduling games on Sundays due to the “religious practices of many Alabamians” and that “the prohibition on Sunday contests is a religious accommodation.” “AHSAA’s discriminatory […]
News reports from Guatemala, the Philippines, United States. Accolades for Academic Sydney Freeman Jr., an educational theorist, social scientist, and former educational administrator, who won the Carlos J. Vallejo Memorial Award for Exemplary Scholarship. The purpose of this award is to recognize a mid-career scholar (associate professor) whose scholarly contributions to multicultural/multiethnic education have been […]
Recently elected Tobago House of Assembly Chief Secretary Farley Augustine identifies as a Seventh-day Adventist. “We must understand that each other’s religious liberties are tied to our own and so your right to worship the way you see fit, to worship whomever you see fit, is tied to my right to do the same,” said […]
$2.5 million will be distributed for use in 2022. Money can be used to build a school, to pay a salary, to fund evangelism—anything, according to PGTS Director Dennis R. Carlson. Deadline for submitting a project proposal to the GC’s PGTS Department is August 1, 2022. 03 May 2022 | From the Adventist News Network: Local […]
25 wounded among baptized and non-baptized churchgoers. It’s estimated that at least 30%, or about 13,000 chuch members, are internally displaced or refugees. 80% of the denomination’s pastors still in Ukraine. 29 April 2022 | The death toll among Adventist Church members in Ukraine has risen to seven, with 25 wounded among the baptized and […]
Adventist Healthcare earned a respected Malcolm Baldrige recognition for its leadership system in March 2022. In April 2022, Howard University Hospital nurses went on strike against AHC over wage and staffing issues. After 9 months of negotiations, talks between AHC and the hospital’s labor union have stalled. 28 April 2022 | In March 2022, Adventist […]
News reports from Estonia, Germany, North American Division, Southern Adventist University. Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Bible Quiz Champion? The Christian television network Hope TV is looking for candidates for a new TV Bible quiz show, reported the APD. The main prize in the finale of the quiz show is a […]
Ranna Shamiya allegedly used her position as director of pharmacy at Adventist Health Ukiah Valley to identify legitimate lot numbers of COVID-19 vaccines. Shamiya then passed on the information to a naturopathic doctor who used the lot numbers to create and sell fraudulent vaccine cards. If convicted, Shamiya faces five years in prison, a $250,000 […]
Suspect had history of filming women at a high school, another university campus, and a Walmart store. Arrest marks second time in five months that a person was arrested for stalking a Southern Adventist University student. Southern Adventist University to launch an emergency app with fast, one-touch method to contact police. 26 April 2022 | […]
News reports from the General Conference, Germany, India, Thailand, United States. Planting a Little Good As part of the Adventist church’s Global Youth Day, Adventist youth of Nakhon Ratchasima Province in Thailand organized a tree-planting activity in Nakhon Ratchasima Zoo, or Korat Zoo, reported the Southern Asia-Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists. The group, called #CareTeamKorat, […]
