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May 4, 2017: An Adventist pastor was shot dead by robbers in the Afigya Kwabre district of the country. The Ghanaian Times reported that Pastor James Agyei, 53, was on official church business when he was shot on Saturday afternoon, April 29. Agyei pastored Effiduase Seventh-day Adventist Church, and also served as Assistant Headmaster for […]
By Major G. Coleman, May 4, 2017: The Adventist student group at the State University of New York (SUNY) New Paltz campus is planning our first “Origins and Basic Assumptions” conference for this coming weekend, May 6, 2017. We hope everyone will come. This is our second annual spring conference. But more than that, we […]
May 3, 2017: Barry Todd Durrell, a deacon at an Adventist church in Houston, Texas has been charged with super aggravated sexual assault and continuous sexual abuse of a child. Houston-based CBS affiliate TV station, KHOU11 reported on its website that police have arrested Durrell and are on the search for more victims. There […]
May 2, 2017: The story of former Adventist pastor Alicia Johnston who resigned from ministry after coming out as bisexual has now been covered by NBC News as a feature story for NBC Out, the network’s digital portal focused on the LGBTQ community. In a May 2 piece on the NBC News website, Johnston’s […]
From APD, May 2, 2017: Delegates from the Seventh-day Adventist denomination in Germany met Sunday and Monday (Apri 30 and May 1) at Darmstadt for two union conference constituency meetings held every five years. More than 300 delegates in the South German Union Conference meeting and a total of 206 from the […]
May 1, 2017: A female priest was ordained on April 30 by a rebel Catholic group in the United States called the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte (North Carolina). The Charlotte Observer reports that the ordination of Abigail Eltzroth, 64, represented the first female ordination for the group which openly defies the Roman Catholic ban […]
May 1, 2017: Pacific Union College (PUC), the Adventist institution in northern California, is restructuring in an attempt to compensate for a recent financial crunch. Jennifer Tyner from PUC’s public relations department said that “Over the last six years, the Adventist Church’s 13 institutes of higher education in North America have seen a combined […]