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9 July 2021 | An Avondale University College news release: A New South Wales higher education provider with a 124-year history is the first in Australia to become a university under new national standards. Avondale University College is the only addition to the “Australian University” category following a transition today to standards introduced by the […]

9 July 2021 | “Saturday is not a day that we want to write exams,” said Ghana’s Minister of Education, Honorable Yaw Adutwum, in conversation with Adventist denominational leaders recently. According to a July 8 story from Adventist News Network, Adutwum said his ministry would ensure secondary school national examinations were not held on Saturdays. […]

Patterson, who was serving as interim president of Southwestern Adventist University, assumed the position of president on July 8, 2021. Patterson graduated from Southwestern Adventist University with a Bachelor of Business Administration in long-term healthcare in 1999 and a Master of Business Administration in 2012. She will be both the university’s first female and first […]

News reports from Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Miami, Florida; Nigeria and Pacific Press: According to the Jamaica Observer, an (at press time) unidentified man was shot on Saturday, July 3, just outside Granville Seventh-day Adventist Church in the St James Parish of Jamaica. The man was the victim of a drive-by shooting. He was walking home […]

7 July 2021  |  An Invitation to Visit the Witch of Endor Few biblical passages are more controversial than 1 Samuel 28:3-25. Here, Saul goes to the village of Endor and asks a medium (traditionally translated as “witch”) to raise Samuel from the dead so he can converse with him. And that is what the […]

ADRA created BRAVE (Building Resilience And Vaccine Awareness), a program to be run in collaboration with interfaith groups in Sri Lanka to fight COVID with factual information. The agency also initiated Know Your Reality, an effort in which faith groups, including the Adventist Church, establish an interfaith pandemic relief team (IPRT) to share COVID-related training […]

5 July 2021  | At their Constituency Meeting on Sunday, July 4, 2021, the Bavarian Conference, among many other agenda items, considered the topic of women’s ordination. Two pastors, Ralf Hartmann from Landshut and Frederik Woysch from Wasserburg, presented three motions to the gathered delegates. The motions were formed by a group of 5 pastors […]

2 July 2021 | Andrews University has announced a $2.8 million gift from the family of Dr. Fay Bradley. The gift will fund a new Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. An article in the Lake Union Herald describes Bradley (who passed away in January of 2021) as a “Pittsburg State Law School graduate, physician, and […]

The “Rookie Award” at the 10th annual 2021 Medication Adherence Team Challenge recognized the school’s community outreach during the pandemic. The award is part of the national Script Your Future public awareness campaign coordinated by the National Consumers League (NCL). The contest saw participation by 78 health profession schools in 13 states, and teams directly counseled nearly 150,000 […]

2 July 2021 | “During my time at Andrews, I faced discrimination and anti-queer prejudice,” said Andrews University graduate Eliel Cruz in a July 1, 2021 Time Magazine article titled “Most Christian Colleges Will Never Be a Safe Space For LGBTQ Students. But They Must Still Do Better To Affirm and Support Us.” Cruz claims […]

A tornado with 136-mph (219-km/h) winds struck several villages in the Czech Republic on June 24. Local authorities in South Moravia report that so far, six people have died, more than 250 people are injured and hundreds more residents are without homes. ADRA has met with local authorities and has set up fundraising efforts to […]