News reports from Oakwood University, Andrews University, Adventist University of the Philippines, Bonaire, Loma Linda University, Walla Walla University and Southern Adventist University According to a Facebook post from Oakwood University, two of the institution’s graduates were included in a mural featuring 21 African-American physicians on a newly created Legacy Wall outside of the Bon […]
31 May 2018 | The Philippine News Agency reported that Jesus Crispin Remulla, governor of the Philippine province of Cavite, has finalized an agreement that puts the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in charge of raising the province’s level of preparedness for an anticipated major earthquake. The Provincial Information and Community Affairs Division (PICAD) […]
30 May 2018 | Michael Usi aka Manganya, a comedian and an Adventist who until recently was country director for the Malawi branch of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, is being urged to run for the position of Vice President of Malawi. Usi resigned earlier this year from his role at ADRA to found the […]
It was with significant interest and with some degree of concern that I read the article “Why I Think an All-Powerful God Might Not Exist” by Stephen Ferguson dated 16 May 2018 published in the May 18, 2018 issue of Adventist today. He asks a question asked by many others for many centuries. How can […]
29 May 2018 | The Gleaner, a major Jamaican newspaper, has published a letter to the editor from a communications officer of the largest Adventist Church in the Trans-European Division. Valerie Moodie of the London, England-based Brixton Seventh-day Adventist Church expressed hope that Jamaican Olympic gold medalist sprinter Usain Bolt would follow his father’s recent […]
28 May 2018 | Sanjeevan Arsud, the former registrar at Spicer Adventist University in Pune, India, has been named as vice-chancellor (the institution’s top job) following a scandal in which three of the university’s administrators including the then vice-chancellor, were accused of having fake degrees. Although the news of Arsud’s new appointment has not been […]
27 May 2018 | Tehachapi News reported that Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley in Tehachapi, California, was partially shut down for two hours on May 25 when an unnamed individual walked into the facility after being exposed to what is believed to have been an insecticide. The individual was exposed to the substance at nearby Stallion […]
News reports from Austria; Andrews University; the Galápagos Islands; Portland, Oregon; Samoa; Escondido Adventist Academy; and Papua New Guinea Pastor Reinhard Schwab (age 40) was elected president of the Austrian Union of Churches, the Adventist union conference encompassing Austria, at its constituency meeting on May 13. Schwab has been the youth director. Stefan Guiliani (age 27), a church […]
24 May 2018 | The Adventist Church in Jamaica is planning to release a child protection policy manual for use in the denomination’s churches, schools and institutions. A key focus of the manual will be the screening of volunteers and workers who work with children. Plans are for the document to be released before the […]
23 May 2018 | According to a Facebook post by Hong Kong Adventist Health Foundation, the organization’s 5th annual Women of Hope (WOH) Awards Fundraiser Luncheon raised over HK$5 million (USD 637,139) in donations to help patients without financial means and good access to care by providing them with PET/CT scans, MRIs, Tomotherapy, Mammogram and […]
22 May 2018 | Two Adventist congregations in London (U.K.) have joined recent demonstrations against gun and knife violence. On May 7 the Pathfinder Club drum corps of the Hackney church led the march in the community in the west of metro London which included the mayor and town council members as well as religious […]
22 May 2018 | On Sunday, May 20, over 500 runners participated in the second annual “Stand up to Stigma” 5K run/walk sponsored by the Loma Linda University Health Behavioral Medicine Center in Redlands, California. “We want to raise awareness of issues surrounding mental health,” said the administrator of the Behavioral Medicine Center, Edward Field, […]