14 March 2018 | At least one Adventist school in the United States had students who joined the National Student Walkout to remember the tragic mass shooting at a public high school in Florida a month ago. Andrews University “is supportive of the walkout and is asking faculty and staff, where possible, to accommodate students wanting […]
13 March 2018 | A critically ill Iranian refugee held at an offshore Australian refugee processing center has been flown to Taiwan for emergency heart surgery at Taiwan Adventist Hospital. Australian Border Force officials approved the trip from an immigration processing center on the island nation of Nauru to Taiwan due to the severity of […]
12 March 2018 | At least 16 people were killed and over a hundred were injured after lightning struck an Adventist Church in Rwanda on Saturday, March 10. Most of the fatalities were instant. The BBC reported that 140 people were rushed to medical facilities with injuries. Two of those injured later died. The lightning […]
11 March 2018 | First Liberty Institute is asking Secretary Ben Carson and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to address a fair housing complaint involving an Adventist lay minister. First Liberty is a legal organization dealing exclusively with religious liberty issues. The complaint was filed on behalf of Donna Dunbar, a […]
News reports from Atlanta, Georgia; the Northern California Conference of the Adventist Church; India; Asheville, North Carolina; Ogden, Utah; Stamford, Connecticut; Loma Linda, California; and Lincoln, Nebraska. CNN is broadcasting a special on the history and current role of the Pope at 10 pm Eastern time on Sundays starting March 11. The series will look […]
8 March 2018 | According to Fox News, Cambridge House, a residential condominium in Port Charlotte, Florida, has passed strict rules against various expressions of faith including a weekly Bible study held by an Adventist lay pastor in a common area of the complex. Donna Dunbar was holding a weekly Bible study for women in the […]
7 March 2018 | Adventist Schools Australia, a body representing the Adventist educational institutions in the country, has joined an effort by the organization Christian Schools Australia to insist on the right to hire and fire teachers based on adherence to and belief in religious tenets. According to The Guardian newspaper, the bodies also appealed […]
6 March 2018 Dear Editor, We are grieving and feel betrayed by your article, Samoa’s Sabbath Wars (Fall 2017 magazine), in which writer Bjorn Karlman, added his personal defence of Seventh-day Adventist Sunday keeping by stating as facts, “the lost day,” “the seventh day now called Sunday,” and “Saturday became the sixth day.” The very […]
Internationally-known Christian radio interviewer Chris Arnzen recently interviewed Dr. Desmond Ford on Arnzen’s Iron Sharpens Iron radio program. Ford is the well-known and controversial Adventist Bible scholar and gospel evangelist who has retired in his native Australia. You can hear the interview here.
From ANN, 6 March 2018 | Adventist volunteers in South Korea gave foot massages to Olympic athletes in a series of outreach activities during the recent Pyeongchang-based 2018 Winter Olympics. The Adventist-run HisHands Mission Movement connected with athletes and coaches by offering the foot massages free of charge. “Adventist members in Brazil did their best […]
5 March 2018 | A column in The Star, Canada’s largest news site, singled out Toronto West Seventh-day Adventist Church for its part in helping Caribbean immigrants flourish in Canada. In a column titled How a Toronto church helped newcomers lay down roots and live the Canadian Dream, Star Columnist Royson James called Toronto West […]
4 March 2018 | On Thursday, March 1, oil and gas giant ExxonMobil chartered a helicopter to fly representatives of relief organizations including ADRA (Adventist Development and Relief Agency) to the Southern Highlands area of Papua New Guinea which was struck by a February 28 earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale. According to Business […]