5 July 2018 | Porter Adventist has announced that it is suspending transplant operations. A number of trained staff members have left and the hospital has not been able to replace them given a challenging labor market. Porter has said that it needs more time to recruit staff and boost clinical support teams. The Denver […]
4 July 2018 | Adventist Health Bakersfield is joining forces with Bakersfield Sikh Women’s Association for a preventative cancer screening. The Kaur Care Women’s Health Preventative Cancer Screening program will feature free breast exams and will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Sunday, July 8, at Gurdwara Guru Dashmesh Darbar, a Sikh […]
by S.M. Chen | 4 July 2018 | “No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.” —Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948) – lawyer, politician, founder of Pakistan RBG are the initials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A 97 minute documentary has been made of her life and career. Why should I view […]
From News Release, 3 July 2018 | The Adventist radio station with the largest listening audience in the United States is WGTS, 91.9 FM which is heard throughout the nation’s capital region. It is transitioning from Washington Adventist University (WAU) to a separate nonprofit entity. Pending approval by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), it will […]
From an Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Press Release: SILVER SPRING, MD, July 3, 2018 – The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) has collaborated with six Adventist universities, including Andrews University, Kettering College, La Sierra University, Loma Linda University, Oakwood University, and Walla Walla University, to kick–off its first–ever ADRA Connections Extreme program. […]
2 July 2018 | New Zealand’s Stuff news site reported that Teina Toru, an Adventist was handed a 12 years and nine month prison sentence at the High Court in the city of New Plymouth, New Zealand on Friday. He was found guilty of rape and abuse despite claiming to be innocent of 15 charges […]
1 July 2018 | According to LGBTI rights site, Erasing 76 Crimes, LGBTI rights advocates have released a statement saying that a group of religious leaders representing a number of faiths including the Roman Catholic Church and Adventist Church “have lost their way” after they made a public push to pressure the government to reject […]
30 June 2018 | With the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy from the highest court in the United States last week a political battle will begin in Congress and across the country. Kennedy has been for many years the “swing vote” on the court, playing a key role in a number of landmark decisions. For […]
28 June 2018 | Adventist church members have been arrested in the political tensions that are currently occurring in the East African nation of Tanzania. The country of 56 million has not seen serious upheaval in decades and is the region’s second-biggest economy, reports the Bloomberg business news service. But two murders of political party […]
News reports from Southern Adventist University, Bangladesh, Silver Spring, Maryland; Italy, Vanuatu and Adventist University of Health Sciences Southern Adventist University business professor, Michelle Doucoumes, is cohosting “Raw Questions Relevant Answers,” a new TV that addresses what a Southern Facebook post calls “real heart questions sent in from young people around the world.” The series […]
28 June 2018 | Last week (June 11-21) the Fourth International Bible Conference convened by the Adventist denomination met in Rome, Italy. About 400 of the denomination’s Bible scholars and church administrators from around the world participated, and Pastor Ted Wilson, the president of the denomination’s General Conference (GC), gave an address. The focus of […]
28 June 2018 | The board of Tulare Regional Medical Center voted 4-1 to approve a proposal by Adventist Health to take over the hospital. The facility is set to be turned over to Adventist Health Central Valley Network and could open for business within four months. This would mean a re-opening of the hospital […]