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12 September 2018 | Bakersfield, California, a city that already has the 250+ bed Adventist Health Bakersfield hospital, is about to get a second Adventist Health facility. According to Bakersfield.com, the new facility will be built in the northwestern area of town and will be smaller. It will be located next to a mixed-use development […]

by S.M Chen  |  12 September 2018  | “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), quoting 19th century clergyman Theodore Parker Certain events are so horrific, they deserve to be burnished in memory. And resurrected from time to time to remind younger generations. For, as Spanish […]

11 September 2018 | Dimitri Daniels, an 18-year-old volunteer at a youth group connected to Mt. Pisgah Seventh-day Adventist Church in Miami Gardens, Florida, has been arrested after confessing to sex acts with his 5-year-old cousin. He is facing charges of sexual assault by an adult on a victim under 12 and lewd and lascivious […]

10 September 2018  | A family in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India, has reported being harassed after alleging “bogus baptisms” by the Adventist denomination in the area. The New Indian Express reports that the couple had also claimed that the denomination lured the poor to become members. James White, an Adventist who runs an organization called God […]

9 September 2018 | The president of the Adventist Church in Jamaica has spoken of the importance of not getting distracted from mission after the highly publicized suspected suicide of an Adventist deacon who was suspected of a recent murder. Linton Stephenson (also known as Gary Stephenson), a 59-year-old deacon at the Jamaica-based Mandeville Seventh-day […]

I have many reasons to agree with Pastor (and Adventist Today Editor-in-Chief) Loren Seibold.  Mostly because his spiritual insight is usually spot on. And his ability to express his ideas has not recently been surpassed in this denomination.  I look forward to, and am often blessed by his printed and on-line editorials. I practice and […]

7 September 2018  | Vyacheslav V. Buchnev, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Belarus Union of Churches, on August 15 appended his signature to a document signed by three other Protestant church leaders in Belarus that protests LGBT “propaganda” in the country. The document says that there are too many events in the country that demonstrate the […]

7 September 2018 | Linton Stephenson (also known as Gary Stephenson), a 59-year-old deacon at the Jamaica-based Mandeville Seventh-day Adventist Church, was found dead yesterday after being named by law enforcement as a “person of interest” in a murder. Stephenson had been on parole after serving time for killing his wife. He was also wanted for assault […]

Werner Dullinger and Johannes Naether, president and vice-president of the Freikirche der 
Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten in Deutschland (the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Germany), have issued a formal response to recent actions and decisions of the General Conference Unity Oversight Committee. Dullinger and Naether serve also as presidents of the South German Union and the North German Union, respectively. […]

6 September 2018  | A teacher at the Seventh-day Adventist Sunshine School in Bangalore, India, claims to have been assaulted and choked by the school treasurer Frederick Jayapaul. “I had not been paid for seven months for the work I had done,” the teacher (not named) told the newspaper New Indian Express. “After school hours, I […]

5 September 2018 | In an article on finance site top1000funds, the chief investment officer for Adventist Health System, Rob Roy, was quoted as saying that the large network of Adventist hospitals is “changing the way we think and act – from self-preservation poor, to enlightened rich.” The article titled Adventist Health’s risk appetite grows, […]