2 January 2023 | Vatican News reports that 95-year-old Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, passed away on Saturday at 9:34 AM in his residence at the Vatican’s Mater Ecclesiae Monastery. The Holy See Press Office released a statement after his death, announcing: “With sorrow I inform you that the pope emeritus, Benedict XVI, passed away today […]
30 December 2022 | Ben Carson’s name has been removed from a Detroit public high school, previously named the Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine. According to ABC13 News, the name change came after 80% of 1,500 people surveyed said they supported the change, including alumni, students, parents, staff, and community members. The […]
29 December 2022 | Mexico Inaugurates New Regional Office After Earthquake Recovery Five years after an 8.2-magnitude earthquake hit the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, killing nearly 100 people and damaging more than 110,000 houses and structures, the Isthmus Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church inaugurated a brand-new headquarters building to minister to the growing church […]
28 December 2022 | After sharing a former Sam’s Club property with Venue Church on weekends, Crosswalk Chattanooga now has the opportunity to purchase the full property after Venue Church filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. Venue – a megachurch that held services on Sundays – brought in 800–1,500 people before a number of changes at […]
27 December 2022 | A recent YouGov poll explores Americans’ attitudes toward 35 religious groups, organizations, and belief systems. Belief systems that encompass the largest shares of Americans — including Christianity, Catholicism, and Protestantism — are among the ones the most Americans view favorably. Viewed least favorably are Satanism and Scientology. Using this metric, Christianity is […]
26 December 2022 | La Sierra’s Director of Choral Studies, Dr. Ariel Quintana, received an email several months ago from a colleague at the Los Angeles Master Chorale, where Quintana previously spent four years as Assistant Conductor. The email was from the Chorale’s Artistic Director, Grant Gershon, who shared that a production company was looking […]
23 December 2022 | A recent islandwide study conducted by Northern Caribbean University (NCU) has found that more than half, or 53%, of men in Jamaica have been experiencing varying levels of depression during the post-COVID-19 period, according to Nationwide Newsnet. The study, conducted in October and November of this year, found that levels of […]
22 December 2022 | ADRA: Serbia Provides Mobile Showers for Local Homeless Population Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Serbia director Igor Mitrović explains that Serbia has “a number of growing refugees and homeless people, without anyone taking care of them; we just got a growing impression that we need to do something for them.” […]
21 December 2022 | KETTERING, OHIO – Liza Da Cunha’s third-grade class at Spring Valley Academy (SVA) decided that this year’s service project would involve doing something nice for the Ukrainian students at Kettering College who couldn’t go home for the holidays. They recruited the fourth-grade class to help them and, together, created gift bags […]
20 December 2022 | COLLEGEDALE, TENNESSEE – Three locomotives and ten train cars were derailed today at Apison Pike and University Drive near McKee Foods and Southern Adventist University. The Norfolk Southern train crashed into a flat bed vehicle that was carrying a 134-foot-long concrete bridge beam. The beam was ripped into numerous sections. According […]
19 December 2022 | AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND – Mongrel Mob member Daniel Eliu, 46, was shot outside of Papatoetoe SDA Community Church on Saturday, December 17th, in what police are calling a targeted attack. Eliu had been attending a gathering at the Adventist church called True Stories, a program run by the Grace Foundation, which […]
16 December 2022 | Bert B. Beach passed to his rest in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, on December 14. He was 94. He will be remembered as a statesman on behalf of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. For many years he served as the director of the Public Affairs and Religious Liberty Department of the […]
