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21 August 2018 | Botswana’s Local Government and Rural Development Assistant Minister, Botlogile Tshireletso, condemned what she described as a pandemic of violence against women and children in the country at an August 19 Adventist-led rally against gender violence in the town of Mahalapye in the central region of the country. At the “End it […]

By Tysan, 20 August 2018 | Members of parliament in Kenya have called upon President Uhuru Kenyatta to beef up security for the Adventist lawyer, Fred Matiang’i who serves as Cabinet Secretary for the Interior, the chief law enforcement officer in the nation. Matiang’i has taken strong action against corruption and the lawmakers say that […]

20 August 2018 | A cross-dressing fan of professional Malawian soccer team, Be Forward Wanderers has infuriated Adventists in the country after he was pictured wearing the uniform typical of female Adventist Dorcas community service volunteers at a soccer match on Saturday, August 18. The Blantyre, Malawi-based team was playing the Azam Tigers, also from […]

19 August 2018 | The wife, two children, niece and mother-in-law of an Adventist pastor in Accra, Ghana, have been killed in a house fire. The fire broke out in the home of Pastor Ato Kessie, the Dansoman District pastor. It started between 5 and 6 a.m. on Sunday, August 19. Kessie was away at […]

News reports from Garden Grove, California; Loma Linda University Medical Center; the Dominican Republic; the North American Division and Volusia County, Florida According to the site Solar Power World, solar power company XsunX installed a solar carport power system at Garden Grove Seventh-day Adventist Church in Garden Grove, California. Solar carports are overhead canopies constructed […]

16 August 2018 | Guro Edvardsen, an Adventist pastor in Norway, has launched a YouTube channel titled “A Female Pastor.” Although she is in favor of having female pastors in the Adventist denomination, she made clear in an email to Adventist Today that her intention is not to attack those that have a different point of […]

15 August 2018 | Midwife Partners, a Lenexa, Kansas-based midwifery business is suing Shawnee Mission Health, the Kansas State Board of Nursing, and several obstetricians who work at Shawnee Mission Medical Center for allegedly putting them out of business. The business obtained a collaborative practice agreement (CPA) in 2015, a requirement for midwives wishing to […]

14 August 2018 | According to a press release from Altamonte Springs, Florida-headquartered Adventist Health System, all of the network’s wholly owned facilities will be carry the AdventHealth name as of January 2, 2019. The transition is described in the press release as a move to “being one consumer-centric, connected and identifiable national system of […]

13 August 2018 | US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, attended the premiere of controversial Christian Film Death of a Nation, on August 1. The Adventist Trump cabinet member attended the premiere with his wife, Candy Carson. Death of a Nation was created by Dinesh D’Souza, a right-wing filmmaker and provocateur who […]

12 August 2018  |  The board chairs and top administrators of the 12 colleges and universities operated by the Seventh-day Adventist denomination in the United States and Canada met in Chicago through the weekend, following a teachers’ convention last week that involved thousands of K-12 and higher education faculty from Adventist schools. The “Summit on […]

12 August 2018 | A poll by Public Religion Research Institute shows statistically significant growth in the percentage of Americans who believe that owners of wedding-based businesses should have the right to not serve same-sex couples if serving them conflicts with their religious beliefs. An article in Religion News Service said that the poll, surveying […]