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 […]
27 June 2018 | The Lumina Foundation has given a $50,000 grant to Southern Adventist University to fund a project addressing racial justice and equity on campus. The grant which was given this month will fund activities that include recording and sharing oral histories, inviting nationally-recognized speakers to Southern, funding creative student-led programs. The funds will […]
26 June 2018 | Liberia’s Paynesville Seventh-day Adventist High School recently took first place in the Liberia National High School Championship Debate. According to Liberia’s Daily Observer, the school beat J.J. Roberts United Methodist School to win the title in the competition that took place on Sunday, June 3. The final score was 87-85 awarded […]
25 June 2018 | The pastor of an Adventist Ghanaian church in Toronto has joined Ghanaian community leaders in the city to appeal for the killers of Jenas Nyarko, a 31-year-old Ghanaian social worker, to come forward. GhanaWeb reported that the appeal was made on June 25, 2018 in the form of a press conference […]
24 June 2018 | According to Denver-based CBS4, a physician has announced plans to sue Porter Adventist Hospital due to an infection she contracted following hip surgery at the facility. The surgery took place during a period in which the hospital had suffered a sterilization breach. Dr. Melanie Green underwent surgery on July 25, 2016 […]
by S.M. Chen | 22 June 2018 | “Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children – these are the only investments that never fail.” —Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) – American writer, naturalist Not many films garner a 99% ranking at Rotten Tomatoes, a film website (but one of many). Here’s one that did. […]