27 June 2025 | In a recent Northern New England Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (NNEC) town hall meeting, president Gary Blanchard said that Ron Kelly, fired pastor of the Berrien Springs Village Church, would not be the conference’s executive secretary. Anybody heard of Spectrum magazine? I have gotten lots of phone calls and lots of […]
27 June 2025 | A ruling was granted this month regarding the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s October 2023 lawsuit against the members and executive director of the Maryland Civil Rights Commission. The church had requested religious exemption from the Maryland Fair Employment Practices Act. According to The Daily Record: A federal judge […]
26 June 2025 | News from Scotland “Audrey Mutongi-Darko, founder of The No.1 Befriending Agency, has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) on May 23 in recognition of her outstanding work to combat loneliness and isolation among older people in Glasgow. Mutongi-Darko is also invited to attend a royal garden party, where she will […]
24 June 2025 | 2,958 runners, of whom 739 were children, participated in a charity run to support victims of domestic violence. ADRA Romania in collaboration with AMiCUS Romania Student Federation hosted the fourth edition of the charity cross-country race entitled “I’m Running for My Mother.” The charity run occurred simultaneously in 12 cities: Arad, […]
24 June 2025 | According to multiple reports: The Employment and Labour Relations Court in Kenya has ruled that the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Central Rift Valley Conference, must compensate former employee Jescah Gesare over KSh 800,000 [US$ 6,20o] for unfair dismissal. The lawsuit was founded on the church’s suspicion that Gesare was having an […]
20 June 2025 | On May 12, 2025, Poland’s National Prosecutor’s Office and Central Anti-Corruption Bureau announced the arrest of five individuals charged with participation in an organized criminal enterprise, engaged in issuing falsified documents intended to get unearned diplomas, as well as accepting financial bribes ranging from 5,000 to 30,000 Polish złoty (abbreviated as […]
16 June 2025 | According to Adventist Review, a historic congress was hosted under the theme “Huastecs United,” aimed towards Indigenous people. The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Mexico recently gathered more than 1,000 members from its Huastec region during a special congress for division and union leaders in El Higo, Veracruz. The event, organized by […]
13 June 2025 | Two Adventist Development & Relief Agency (ADRA) employees of the Zimbabwe division have allegedly embezzled US$ 1.4 million. Fortune Goredema was brought before Harare regional magistrate Ms. Marehwanazvo Gofa on fraud charges. He was released on $1,000 bail under strict conditions, including a mandatory report to the Commercial Crimes Division three […]
12 June 2025 | According to a recent news report, on Friday, June 6, a member of the Burlington (New Jersey) Seventh-day Adventist Church was accused of 26 charges of sexual abuse and violence against a minor. One news outlet states: Shawn Tracey, 44, of Mount Holly, was taken into custody Tuesday following allegations of […]
12 June 2025 | News from Jamaica St John’s Primary School is establishing a scholarship in memory of one of their former students, Kelsey Ferrigon. The nine-year-old girl was murdered in her bed on May 9, shattering the community. Spanish Town Seventh-day Adventist Church held a service announcing the scholarship as well as dedication to […]
10 June 2025 | According to a news item by Adventist News Network: On May 30, around 5 a.m., a humanitarian aid warehouse of ADRA Ukraine in the city of Izium, Kharkiv region, was damaged as a result of a nighttime attack. A kamikaze combat drone struck the warehouse where food parcels from the United […]
9 June 2025 | A Gulf States Conference special constituency meeting has voted to close Bass Memorial Academy, ratifying a decision made earlier by the conference executive committee on January 7 to quit funding the academy at the end of this year. You can watch the constituency meeting here. The constitution says that 3/4 of […]