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From APD, 18 July 2019   |    Dr. Sandra Roberts, president of the denomination’s Southeastern California Conference, visited July 7 to 15 with Adventist leaders in Germany. She is the first woman to be elected a local conference president in Adventist history.  Roberts is an ordained pastor in the conference which includes the Riverside, […]

18 July 2019 | US Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson defended President Donald Trump after some comments he made this week were widely condemned as racist. Trump targeted a small group of congresswoman of color known as “The Squad,” which includes Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib […]

We are delighted that Loma Linda University Chaplain, Dilys Brooks, will be speaking at the AT1 gathering taking place October 4-6 in Portland, Oregon. As with all our presenters, we asked Dilys to answer the question, “How Does Christ Challenge Culture?” Here’s what she had to say: Christ’s challenge to culture is love your enemies, […]

17 July 2019 | The body of an alleged murder victim was found after having been hid in a bush behind the Adventist Educational Unit Office on the Kasadjan road in the New Juaben North municipality of Ghana’s Eastern Region. The Ghanaian Times reported that two suspects were arrested in connection with the suspected murder. […]

16 July 2019 | Theresah Osei, the Women’s Ministry Director for the Amakom Sector of the Adventist Church in Ghana has publicly called on the government to create spot fines for public littering. She said the fines would act as a deterrent and help the local government fund sanitation work. Osei made the comments last […]

From a News Release, 16 July 2019 | Two billion more people live in countries with high restrictions on religious freedom than did so just a decade ago, according to an analysis by the interfaith Religious Freedom and Business Foundation (RFBF) of a report released today by the Pew Research Center. The dramatic decline in […]

15 July 2019 | Politicians from the western Kenyan province of Nyamira were denied the opportunity to address mourners at the funeral of the former director of Stewardship and Church Development Activities at the East Kenya Union of the Adventist Church. The funeral for Pastor Shem Ngoko took place on Friday, July 5, at Miriri […]

Adapted from an ANN story – 14 July 2019 | From July 9 to July 13, 2019, the Health Ministries Department of the Seventh-day Adventist world church hosted its third Global Conference on Health and Lifestyle at Loma Linda University. The first Global Conference was held in Geneva in 2009 and has grown since. This […]

11 July 2019 | Catholic and Adventist hospital networks in certain Northern Californian counties are seeking to set up a joint operating company. According to the Napa Valley Register, ST Network LLC, would operate the Queen, Adventist Health St. Helena, and seven other hospitals in Lake, Sonoma, Solano, Mendocino and Humboldt counties. It is not […]

We can’t wait to hear former Adventist Today Executive Editor John McLarty speak for the AT1 gathering taking place October 4-6 in Portland, Oregon. John is Senior Pastor at Green Lake Church in Seattle, Washington and is Owner of Talking Rocks Geology Tours. As with all our presenters, we asked John to answer the question, […]

News reports from the Potomac Conference, Loma Linda University Health, Peruvian Union University, Adventist University of the Philippines, Adventist Peace Fellowship and Southern Adventist University: From APD – The official news agency of the Adventist Church in parts of Europe: On the 29th of June, the Potomac Conference ordained Therezinha Barbalho for pastoral ministry. Barbalho […]