by Admiral Ncube | 5 June 2025 | Sometime early this year, a friend of mine told me that he had been nominated to be a delegate at the 62nd General Conference Session in St Louis. He was excited! However, a few days ago when I talked to him, he was distraught. He had done […]
by Admiral Ncube | 22 March 2024 | A few days ago a director in the Southern African and Indian Ocean Division (SID) innocently posted pictures on his Facebook page with his family on a church-organized leadership summit on a cruise ship in South Africa. It is reported that this was a weeklong business meeting […]
Discover Adventist Today supporter Deanne Hoehn’s captivating missionary journey in post-colonial Africa. By purchasing this book, you’re not just embarking on an exciting read – you’re contributing to Adventist Today’s mission as all proceeds go to AT. Book overview Deanne Hoehn spent 13 years of her young life writing these stories about becoming a missionary […]
21 December 2023 | Loma Linda Health Team Provides Free Dental Care in Cuba “A group of students and faculty from Loma Linda University’s School of Dentistry recently traveled to Havana, Cuba, to take part in the first-ever dental health fair…. More than 300 people received free dental care during the fair, organizers said.” Full […]
by Alvin Masarira | 21 November 2023 | On Sunday, May 21, 2023, the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church turned 160 years old. For all intents and purposes, church members equate the General Conference organization with the Adventist Church itself. They don’t differentiate between the administrative entity and the church—but that should be […]
14 June 2021 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, In my region in Africa the custom is that a woman who is marrying must wear a veil to show that she is a virgin. It isn’t unknown for elders to initiate a physical investigation to discover if the woman is qualified to wear the veil! The woman […]
From ANN, May 23, 2016: More than 500 Adventist business professionals raised approximately $50,000 (USD) to help fund the construction of the East-Central Africa Division (ECD) Medical School in Kigali, Rwanda, in order to address the nation’s tremendous need for expanded health services. The fundraising event took place May 15 on the campus of […]
From ANN, May 18, 2016: About 6,000 people are on track to receive free healthcare at three clinics operating on the sidelines of a major Seventh-day Adventist evangelistic series in Rwanda. Hundreds of people eagerly lined up Sunday for free dental, medical and eye care at the largest of the three clinics, a recently […]
April 25, 2016: Rumors continue to swirl around the doctoral degrees claimed by some African Adventist leaders. An April 14 piece in a South African newspaper, The New Age, raised questions about the legitimacy of the educational degrees of Pastor Paul Ratsara and Pastor Paul Charles. Ratsara is president of the denomination’s Southern Africa-Indian Ocean […]
From ANN, April 14, 2016: More than 700,000 Adventists across the African country of Rwanda commemorated the 22nd anniversary of the Tutsi genocide last week as they prayed, sang inspirational songs and listened to testimonies. In 1994, the Tutsi were an ethnic minority in the nation of Rwanda, where the majority of the population […]
From ANN, April 7, 2016: Religious leaders in the West African country of Côte d’Ivoire are calling for a unified response to violence carried out by Islamic extremists. At a March 18 summit and press conference, held at the Seventh-day Adventist denomination’s regional headquarters in the capital city of Abidjan, religious leaders from […]
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 […]