From ANN, May 7, 2016: Leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination in Canada are closely monitoring a wildfire in Ft. McMurray, Alberta, that caused the local government to declare a state of emergency and forced more than 80,000 residents to flee their homes. A mandatory evacuation order was issued on May 4 when wildfires […]
From ANN, April 21, 2016: The South American country of Ecuador has declared a state of emergency after the 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck at 6:58 p.m. Saturday, killing at least 413 people and injuring more than 2,500. The earthquake caused widespread destruction in the country, including four local Adventist churches. Pedernales, a city of about […]
From ANN, April 19, 2016: As the Colombian government and rebel groups move toward ending the country’s long-standing civil conflict, Seventh-day Adventists are seeking ways to support the peace efforts and to help rebuild a society damaged by almost five decades of violence. A two-day peace forum held last month at the Adventist denomination’s […]
From ANN, April 5, 2016: The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), the humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, is responding to a serious drought affecting countries across southern Africa, where El Niño conditions have caused the lowest ever recorded rainfall between October and December 2015. Countries in the Horn of Africa region […]
From ANN, March 9, 2016: As global alarm grows about the Zika virus, hundreds of thousands of Seventh-day Adventists in one of the most affected countries, Brazil, decided to respond with their hands and feet. The Adventist denomination in Brazil kicked off the Zika Project, a national campaign to raise awareness, prevent new infections, […]
From ANN, March 7, 2016: The civil war in Syria has been raging since early 2011. Since then, thousands of residents have fled to Lebanon to seek refuge. Currently, the nation of Lebanon has the highest population density of foreign refugees worldwide. Many refugee families live in Beirut and its surrounding area. This region […]
From ANN, February 17, 2016: The Adventist Development Relief Agency (ADRA) in Dominica is leading the rebuilding efforts after hundreds of families were left homeless by Tropical Storm Erika last August. Teams of church member volunteers from across the U.S. Virgin Islands and nine neighboring islands have been traveling since last month for one-week […]
From ANN, December 24, 2015: News broadcasts are full of their stories. While politicians struggle, while winter sets in, and while some boarders close, others cannot just stand by. Volunteer workers with the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), the humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, hear those harrowing stories on a day-to-day […]
From ANN, December 8, 2015: The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Colombia was honored by the House of Representatives in Colombia for the more than 25 years of dedicated work in the country, during a special ceremony held at the Congress building in Bogota on December 1, 2015. ADRA is the humanitarian […]
From ANN, November 27, 2015: The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), the humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, has mobilized efforts to help meet the needs of more than a quarter of a million people in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, who are without drinking water as the state continues to […]
From News Release, September 24, 2015: The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), which is the humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, is preparing to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals when they launch later this month. The Global Goals, as they are being called, expand and follow up on the Millennium Development […]
From ANN, September 16, 2015: Days after Tropical Storm Erika devastated the Caribbean Island of Dominica, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Dominica, with the help of local Adventist church member volunteers, are active in providing meals to those left homeless in the most affected communities. ADRA is the humanitarian arm of the […]
