Hiroshima Remembered Hiroshima, Japan | 29.07.2005 | International Prayers for peace will pass the lips of tens of thousands of people across the world on August 6. Sixty years ago on that day, the world entered the atomic age when a bomb detonated 1,900 feet (580 meters) above the center of Hiroshima and instantly killed 70,000 people. Within a few months, the longer term effects of radiation sickness killed that many again. Just three days after the Hiroshima blast, another atomic bomb was detonated over Nagasaki, killing thousands more. Among the few rem
USA: Adventist Lake Region Church Area Meets After Audit Finds Irregularities Berrien Springs, Michigan/USA | 27.07.2005 | International Leaders of the Lake Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, a five-state Adventist church region, are assisting with developments in the Lake Region Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, a local church administrative area. A special constituency meeting was held July 24 at which Lake Union leaders helped explain to members and pastors decisions that led to major leadership and employment changes in the Lake Region. "Please pray for your church, for the Lake Region Conference, and for all
Include More Women in Adventist Ministry, Group Says St. Louis, Missouri/USA | 27.07.2005 | International They are teachers, preachers, healers and innovators. They are six Seventh-day Adventist women whose contributions to the church and community were recognized at a recent "Woman of the Year" awards ceremony during the annual conference of the Association of Adventist Women (AAW) in St. Louis, Missouri (USA). AAW is an independent group that considers itself an advocate for women in the Adventist church. "The AAW are ... interested in the full participation of women in the church. They have p
Using the Internet for Evangelism and Ministry that Transcends Borders Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 27.07.2005 | Media While holding satellite evangelism meetings and passing out tracts has its place in helping the Seventh-day Adventist Church share the Gospel, the church wants to continue reaching the millions of people who log on to the Internet daily. Looking to increase awareness to the potential of the Internet to further enhance evangelism and ministry, world church leaders and lay people will meet in Bangkok (Siam City Hotel), Thailand for its third Global Internet Evangelism Forum September 1 to 4. 2
Statement Of Adventist World Session On The Terrorist Attack On London St. Louis, Missouri/USA | 07.07.2005 | International On behalf of all of us attending the 58th world session of the Seventh-day Adventist Church here in St Louis we would like to express our shock and horror at the mindless acts of terror, brutality and extremism seen in London today. Our thoughts and prayers are with the injured and bereaved. We are living in an increasingly unstable and dangerous world. We recognize that there are those who mistakenly see violence as the way to promote their cause claiming that their cause is absolute and t
Adventists Condemn London Acts of Terror, Pray for Victims St. Louis, Missouri/USA | 07.07.2005 | International Delegates to the 58th General Conference Session of the Seventh-day Adventist Church today expressed their "shock and horror at the mindless acts of terror, brutality and extremism seen in London today," according to a statement read to delegates by Pastor Ted N.C. Wilson, a general vice president of the world church. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the injured and bereaved," Wilson read at the opening of the Thursday, July 7 business session. "We are living in an increasingly unstable
