by AT News Team On Thursday evening last week (September 20) a 16-year-old young man gave his life to protect his 14-year-old sister. The family consists of members of the Beacon Light Seventh-day Adventist Church in Phoenix, according to The Arizona Republic daily newspaper. Andrew Murphy saw someone aiming a gun at his sister […]
by AT News Team John Loughborough School in the Tottenham neighborhood of London is run by the South England Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church with public funding. Civil authorities took steps last week toward closing the school because a “review team agreed that the school does not meet the required educational standards and has […]
by AT News Team The officers of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America have appointed a 13-member committee to participate in the study process on the theology of ordination that was announced at the 2010 General Conference (GC) Session in Atlanta. This is the third major, official study of the topic conducted by the […]
by AT News Team Today (September 26) the executive committee of the Columbia Union Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church voted to approve the ordination of 15 women who are currently employed or are retired from employment as pastors in the denomination. This follows a four to one vote by delegates at a special constituency […]
by AT News Team Updated September 27 How difficult community involvement can be for a congregation is illustrated in the local conflict that the Redlands Seventh-day Adventist Church has become embroiled in. The church had two trees removed near the edge of property where a new annex is being constructed, redwoods that belong to the […]
by AT News Team New York 13 begins this coming weekend with events in three languages that will be uplinked by satellite across North America. The outreach project that will continue for more than a year in the largest metropolitan area in the United States, the first year of a strategy voted by the General […]
by Adventist News Network The Seventh-day Adventist Church has long lobbied for increased legal protection against religious discrimination by employers. A new state law in California offers more protection for church members whose jobs are jeopardized by Sabbath observance, according to religious liberty specialists. AB 1964 was signed into law last week by Governor […]
by AT News Team Bill Knott, editor of the Adventist Review, announced in an editorial published in the current issue (dated September 13) that the leading journal of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination will “in coming weeks” publish “articles … interviews, letters, features and editorials” about “the appropriateness of ordaining women to gospel ministry and the […]
by AT News Team Several local conferences in North America are preparing to conduct ordination services for women pastors in the next few weeks. The first could be as early as October 6 at the Loma Linda University Church, according to Spectrum, the journal of the largest organization of Seventh-day Adventist academics. At constituency […]
by AT News Team Although no dramatic developments occurred, the ordination issue provided an interesting undercurrent during the European Pastors Council in late August in the Trans-European Division (TED) of the General Conference (GC) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. A GC vice president who made presentations at both the Columbia Union Conference and Pacific Union […]
by AT News Team Corrected September 5 at 6:30 p.m. Questions have been raised about the conference president who employed Samuel K. Pipim, the Seventh-day Adventist youth worker and theologian who resigned last year due to sexual misconduct. “What did he know and when did he know it?” Jay Gallimore, president of the Michigan […]
by AT News Team with Reports from the Adventist Review News Staff A public evangelism campaign in the South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG) ended with the baptism of at least 4,500 new members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Attendance on the final night in Port Moresby, the largest city and the national […]