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 […]
By Andrew Hanson, March 10, 2016: The period 1894 to 1921 is generally regarded by historians as the pioneer period of Adventist mission work in southern Africa. In 1894 Solusi Mission, the first outreach to native Africans, was established and by 1920, when the white South African Union Conference became the Southern African Union Conference […]
March 7, 2016: A group of 13 Adventist academics from Africa have produced the first volume of research among and by the 40 percent of Adventist believers who live on that continent. Entitled Adventism, Society and Sustainable Development, the book focuses on a wide range of issues, including ordination and worship style. The chapters are […]
From ANN, February 12, 2016: As heads of state of 54 African countries gathered for the 26th African Union Summit, a Seventh-day Adventist leader urged delegates to recognize “respect for human dignity” as a foundational principle of good governance. Dr. Ganoune Diop, director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty (PARL) for the Adventist world […]
From ANN, February 10, 2016: More than 3,000 leaders and members from the Seventh-day Adventist denomination’s East-Central African Division celebrated the inauguration of the newly built West Kenya Union Conference headquarters last week in Kisumu, Kenya. The state of the art complex includes a brand new media center, two cafeterias and a host of […]
