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  • Ghana: Media Must Accurately Report Religion, Newspaper Editor Says

    Accra/Ghana | 12.05.2005 | Media
    "People need accurate, timely and unbiased information, especially on religious issues," Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh, editor of Ghana's "Daily Graphic" newspaper, told delegates at the recent All-Africa Conference on Religious Liberty. "People rely on the media to explain issues, policies and programs aimed at moving nations forward." In a speech entitled "The Role of the Media in Promoting Religious Liberty," Boadu-Ayeboafoh emphasized the public service nature of media, and the responsibilities th

  • Tanzania: Four Adventist Church Leaders, Driver Are Killed In Crash En Route to Funeral

    Dar es Salaam/Tanzania | 23.12.2005 | International
    Four leaders in the Seventh-day Adventist Church in East Tanzania, along with the son of one leader, were killed in a head-on vehicle collision December 21. The men died while en route to the funeral of Dr. Witson Mwamakamba, former publishing director of the Adventist church in East Africa, according to Pastor Steven Bina, regional church communication director. Killed were Pastor Geoffrey Simon, local church president; Pastor Loitopuak Lebabu, secretary; Mzuma Wikahi, treasurer; and Pastor

  • South Pacific Adventist Church Leaders to Discuss Identity

    Wahroonga, New South Wales/Australia | 23.12.2005 | International
    Theologians and administrators from the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific Division will meet in late January next year to discuss the identity of Adventism to help formulate strategic plans for the next five years. The Bible Congress, themed "Past, Present, and Future: Who is the Seventh-day Adventist?" is coordinated by Dr Paul Petersen, an Old Testament scholar and Director of Biblical Research for the Adventist Church in the South Pacific. About 120 delegates are expected t

  • ADRA Helps Young Mothers in Mexico City:

    Mexico City/Mexico | 23.12.2005 | ADRA
    In Mexico City, where more than 22 million people reside, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is providing hope to a small group of adolescent mothers and children. ADRA Mexico recently opened a training center in the town of San Rafael to teach these mothers, ages 11-17, the sewing trade so they can earn money to support their children. The center was inaugurated on Dec. 15. "Our primary objective was to bring some hope to the group of girls who had been kicked out of their

  • APD Season Greetings with a Special Prayer

    Basel | 23.12.2005 | Switzerland
    May the Peace and the Beauty of the Christmas Season Bring You Happiness Now and Throughout the coming New Year 2006. The colleagues from the Editorial office of the Adventist Press Service APD Basel/Switzerland CHRISTMAS PRAYER 2005 When the world was dark and the city was quiet, you came. You crept in beside us. And no-one knew. Only the few who dared to believe that God might do something different. Will you do the same this Christmas, Lord? Will you come into the

  • U.S.Adventist Educators Ponder Impact of Intelligent Design Ruling

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 23.12.2005 | Religious Liberty
    A December. 20 ruling from a federal court in the United States finds that "creation science" or "Intelligent Design" cannot be taught in state-sponsored schools because it has a religious base. Seventh-day Adventists are among several faith groups who are questioning that ruling. "Intelligent Design," or "ID" is a scientific theory that postulates a different origin of the universe than Darwin's theory of evolution. The ruling capped a six-week federal trial in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, bef

  • Health: Loma Linda University, LLU Medical Center Mark Centennial

    Loma Linda, California/USA, | 21.12.2005 | Health & Ethics
    In 1905, Albert Einstein published the Special Theory of Relativity, the first jukebox was invented, and, on a small hill in Southern California called Loma Linda, a dream began. The Seventh-day Adventist-owned Loma Linda University and Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC), celebrate the fulfillment of that dream with its 100th anniversary this year. Officials at the institution say the unwavering dedication of those who promoted healthful living and provided care for the sick ha

  • Adventist World Church Leader Urges Care for the Poor as 2006 Draws Near

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 16.12.2005 | International
    Along with preaching the Gospel message, Seventh-day Adventists must also express practical concern for "the very poorest" of the world, Pastor Jan Paulsen, world church president, said in a year-end message recorded for 14.3 million church members in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. "Whether they are poor, carry the HIV virus, or whatever, they are loved by our Lord," Pastor Paulsen said of the world's less fortunate. "It is our duty to express that love, and to giv

  • Urgent Winter Aid from ADRA Arrives for Earthquake Survivors in Kashmir

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 16.12.2005 | ADRA
    More than 90 trucks loaded with tents, blankets, stoves, and hygiene kits provided by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) European Union have been sent to the Bagh District of Azad Kashmir, where ADRA is working to deliver and set up tents, as well as distribute winter supplies for an estimated 8,500 displaced earthquake survivors. 60 heavy-duty winterized army tents were also flown into Islamabad on November 24 by three Hercules C130 planes provided by NATO (National Atlantic

  • New Leadership Team Appointed to the Middle East Adventist Church

    Nicosia, Cyprus | 15.12.2005 | unknow
    The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Middle East has a new leadership team that includes what is believed to be the youngest person ever to be appointed to an administrative post in that region. At 33-years-old, Conrad Vine has been elected the secretary-treasurer for the church in that region. The announcement was made at the start of the Adventist church's year-end meeting in Nicosia, Cyprus. Vine, who is trained both in business and in theology, currently pastors two sizeable Adventist

  • Turkish Authorities Harass Protestant Communities

    Istanbul/Turkey | 02.12.2005 | Religious Liberty
    Turkey’s Protestant Christian minorities experienced fresh harassment this past week from both security police and the judiciary, along with an attempt by vandals to set on fire one local church, reports the Christian news agency Compass Direct (CD). On Sunday, November 27, members of the Agape House congregation in Samsun, a city along the Black Sea coast, were disquieted by a large, white minibus parked in front of their church as they came to morning worship services. Church members sus

  • Papua New Guinea: Crocodile Attacks Sepik River Villagers

    Port Moresby/PNG | 02.12.2005 | International
    A Seventh-day Adventist Church elder from Kanganamun village in Angoram, East Sepik Province, located on the north coast of Papua New Guinea, says crocodiles are running amok on the Sepik River and has called for help. Isaac Wambun, who is in Madang to seek assistance from authorities on what could be done, said killer crocodiles were threatening the livelihood of his people living along the banks of the Sepik River, the national newspaper Post Courier reports. Mr Wambun said this was a

  • Kenyan Government Granted Broadcast Licences To Adventist Church

    Nairobi/Kenya | 30.11.2005 | Media
    The Kenyan government has granted a broadcasting licence to the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) to operate 10 Television and four Radio stations. The stations will be operated in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret, Kitui, Nyeri, Kakamega, Bungoma, Homa Bay, and Kisii towns. Also granted were licenses for TV station channel 21 and 105.4 FM for Kitui town and its environs. Speaking to pastors during the quinquennial session for SDA church leaders at Kamagambo Adventist College in Mig

  • Romanian Adventists: From a Bucharest Small Studio to a National Media Centre

    Bucharest/Romania | 30.11.2005 | Media
    A small studio in Bucharest was once the scene for the Seventh-day Adventist Church's television production in Romania. Today, a national media centre stands in this capital city with the task of producing radio and television programs for the nation. On November 24, the media centre officially joined six other major church-owned media centres around the world. "I come with joy to this place, and this centre is a way of bringing light to the hearts of many people," Romanian Senator Virginia

  • World Summit of the Information Society: A 100 dollar PC for Third-World children

    Tunis/Tunisia | 18.11.2005 | Media
    The prototype of a wind-up laptop which costs at most US$100 has been unveiled; it is geared for the education of children in developing countries. The prototypes were presented to the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the World Summit of the Information Society, under way in Tunis. The highest-ranking expert of the Institute of Technology, Nicholas Negroponte, showed the low-cost, colourful laptops for the first time. Their scope is to facilitate the education of millions of ch

  • Kashmir Earthquake Survivors Receive Continued Aid from ADRA

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 17.11.2005 | ADRA
    The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) continues its efforts to provide aid for the survivors of the South Asian earthquake, providing medicine, blankets, tents, and hygiene kits for survivors in the District of Bagh, a town that was badly damaged by the earthquake near Muzzafarabad, Pakistan. ADRA has completed the first phase of relief operations, delivering tents and food kits to 300 families in Bagh District, as well as providing medical screening for survivors. ADRA has a

  • Oman: Muscat Adventist Church Celebrates Fifteenth Anniversary

    Muscat/Oman | 16.11.2005 | International
    Located at the Eastern horn of the Arabian Peninsula, the Sultanate of Oman has a relatively small population -- around 3 million people -- of which about 550,000 are workers from other lands. Overwhelmingly Muslim, the presence of Christianity, though permitted, is tiny, to say the least. Yet, last week, about 130 people attended the local Adventist Church of Muscat, Oman's largest city, to celebrate the 15th anniversary with a special commemorative service. Addressing the church in the

  • Adventists Should Embrace Environmental Concern, Church Experts Say

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 16.11.2005 | International
    Even though the Bible promises a "new heaven and a new Earth" at the conclusion of the book of Revelation, that's not a reason for Seventh-day Adventist Christians to ignore pressing environmental concerns, said experts who spoke with Adventist News Network (ANN). "I believe deeply that as stewards of God's creation we've been entrusted with responsibilities that we sometimes neglect out of ignorance," said Dr. Zdravko (Zack) Plantak, chairman of the Department of Religion at Columbia Union

  • Growing Need of Talking Bibles for Illiterate Population in India

    Escondido, California/USA | 16.11.2005 | Bible
    Talking Bibles International, a non-denominational mission-support organization, has distributed in India more than 3,000 boxes of The Talking Bible® in 18 different languages in the last 2 1/2 years. According to Baskara Chandran, Talking Bible's India Country Director, that number will grow exponentially, up to 100,000 boxes, in the next five years. The Talking Bibles are machines with God's word recorded on them for those who can't read. "Sixty percent of the population in India are illit

  • Saudi jailed to 40 month in prison for discussing the Bible

    Riyadh/Saudi Arabia | 16.11.2005 | Religious Liberty
    A court sentenced a teacher to 40 months in prison and 750 lashes for "mocking religion" after he discussed the Bible and praised Jews, the Saudi newspaper Al Madina reported November 13. The newspaper said secondary-school teacher Mohammad al-Harbi, who will be flogged in public, was taken to court by his colleagues and students. He was charged with promoting a "dubious ideology, mocking religion, saying the Jews were right, discussing the Gospel and preventing students from leaving cl

  • ADRA partners with PSI to Assist Genocide Survivors in Rwanda

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 14.11.2005 | ADRA
    In honour of the North American " National Philanthropy Day®" on November 15, the Philanthropic Services for Institutions (PSI) has chosen to feature and raise funds for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International’s food security matching grant programs. Featuring its food security programs worldwide, and with a special emphasis on its work in Rwanda, which includes many survivors of the 1994 genocide, ADRA has launched a campaign for matching grant funds. By leveraging i

  • U.S. Religious Freedom Bill Gets Hearing

    Washington D.C./USA | 12.11.2005 | Religious Liberty
    The fight to protect the faith of America's workers on the job advanced slightly in the United States House of Representatives Nov. 10, when the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations held what is believed to be the first hearing on the "Workplace Religious Freedom Act," or WRFA. Attorney James Standish, congressional liaison of the Seventh-day Adventist world church to the Congress, said the hearing was a milestone. A similar hearing in the United States Senate is expected sometime in

  • United States Releases 2005 International Religious Freedom Report

    Washington D.C./USA, | 09.11.2005 | Religious Liberty
    The U.S. Department of State released the seventh Annual Report on International Religious Freedom, which examines the status of religious freedom around the world. The annual report to Congress is mandated by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 and seeks to examine barriers to religious freedom in 197 countries and territories. The report also notes countries in which conditions have improved and outlines U.S. actions to promote international religious freedom. The 2005 report

  • ADRA Commemorates World AIDS Day 2005 Around the World

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 09.11.2005 | ADRA
    On December 1, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) will join the world in celebrating World AIDS Day, a day aimed to increase awareness about the scourge of HIV and AIDS. ADRA has also released an awareness kit addressing the tragedies caused by the HIV and AIDS epidemic, both in the U.S. and around the globe. The theme for this year’s kit is “Learn. Care. Act!” The kit includes a World AIDS Day poster, sermon/presentation outline, activity ideas, facts, stories, and a discuss

  • Cameroon: New Radio Studio to Reach Africa's Fulani People in Their Language

    Maroua/Cameroon | 06.11.2005 | Media
    The Biblical message of hope and salvation will reach even more people in West and Central Africa with the opening of a new Seventh-day Adventist radio studio that will produce programming in the Fulfulde language spoken by the Fulani people who live in the Sahel region there. The Fulani are reported to be the largest nomadic group of people in the world. Construction of the new radio studio has just been completed. It is located at the North Cameroon church office in Maroua, Cameroon, Afric

  • Former U.S. State Department Official Claims Religion

    Washington D.C./USA | 06.11.2005 | Religious Liberty
    The major problem with the foreign policy of the United States of America, said Dr. Tom Farr, former director of the Office of International Religious Freedom in the U.S. Department of State, is that "we're not taking religion as seriously as we should." Farr, the featured speaker at the Washington Coalition for International Religious Freedom's October 27 meeting, spoke on the subject, "Still Missing: Religion and American Foreign Policy" to the 40 representatives that make up the group.

  • Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Pioneer, Touched Adventist Lives in Her City

    Washington, D.C./USA | 03.11.2005 | International
    Sometimes it is the end of a journey that lets you see where you've been. The recent passing of Rosa Parks has had that effect on many in the United States of America and around the world. Among those who reminisced about the historic action of this humble woman and its far-reaching consequences were three who were there in 1955. Or at least they were close by. Laura Smith and Dorothy Webb had known each other only about one year in 1955. They were both baptized as new members of the Seventh

  • Switzerland: Leaders of Christian World Communions Meet, HIV/AIDS a Major Focus

    Geneva/Switzerland | 02.11.2005 | International
    Leaders of a wide range of Christian churches met in Geneva, Switzerland, for a series of consultations October 16 to 22. The Conference of Secretaries of the Christian World Communions (CS/CWC), a loosely structured group, has met annually since 1957, providing a venue for frank and open dialogue in an informal setting, according to conference secretary Dr. John Graz, who is also the director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty for the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church. "This confe

  • Iraq: Insurgent Blasts Damage Baghdad Adventist Church

    Baghdad/Iraq | 27.10.2005 | International
    For the fourth time in two years, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in central Baghdad was damaged as a result of bomb blasts. The October 24 explosions were aimed at the Palestine Hotel, located 802.2 feet (250 meters) from the church building. Media reports indicate the attack, which killed 17 and injured 9, was the work of insurgent bombers, whose first two explosions first breached a wall in the hotel's perimeter. They then drove a third vehicle in to the hotel, which was detonated. The P

  • European Evangelical Leaders Address Role as God

    Tavira/Portugal | 26.10.2005 | International
    European Evangelical leaders addressed their roles as transforming agents in an increasingly secularized Europe at the conclusion of their four day annual assembly in Tavira, Portugal on October 22. Over 200 Christian leaders representing 35 countries gathered for the joint four-day assembly held by the European Evangelical Alliance (EEA), the European Evangelical Missionary Alliance (EEMA) and Hope for Europe (HfE), building stronger ties and renewing their faith focused on the theme, "Gosp

  • Evangelical-Lutheran Bishop to Chair Ecumenical Council of Churches in Austria

    Vienna/Austria | 25.10.2005 | Ecumenism
    Bishop Herwig Sturm of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria Is the new chairperson of the Ecumenical Council of Churches in Austria(ÖRKÖ). He has been elected for a two-years term at the council’s annual general meeting on October 18, in Vienna. Sturm succeeds Mother Superior Professor Christine Gleixner of the Roman Catholic Church, who has chaired the council over the past six years. The National Ecumenical Council is a learning community, which the Lutheran bis

  • ADRA Emergency Response Continues for Katrina Evacuees

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 25.10.2005 | ADRA
    The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International continues to aid Hurricane Katrina survivors and evacuees, continuing to provide emergency response as well as focusing on long-term development. ADRA has funded, to date, close to US$1 million through local partners and organizations on the ground that are directly involved in emergency response programs providing food, clothing, and other relief items for evacuees. Additionally, ADRA has shipped more than US$1.2 million w

  • "God's 'Business' is Salvation", Adventist World Church President Tells University Students

    Berrien Springs, Michigan/USA | 21.10.2005 | International
    "God is in the business of saving everyone He can lay His hands on," Pastor Jan Paulsen, world president of the Seventh-day Adventist church, told a group of students during an informal discussion October 16 at Andrews University, the protestant mainstream church's flagship educational institution. The meeting followed dedication of a new Campus Ministries center. Students who participated in the dialogue represented a range of degree tracks and interests. Guillermo Magana, president of

  • Largest Medical Missions Conference in World Celebrates 10th Anniversary

    Louisville, Kentucky/USA | 20.10.2005 | Health & Ethics
    Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization to Host HIV/AIDS Consultations November 11-12 in US city of Louisville The Global Missions Health Conference is the largest event of its kind in the world. This year the GMHC celebrates its 10th anniversary, Nov. 11-12, at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Kentucky/USA. For the first time the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization (LCWE) will host the North American Consultation on the Role of the Church in the HIV/AIDS Pandemic, No

  • ADRA Emergency Food Aid Benefits More Than 100,000 in Jamaica, Congo, Niger, Mongolia

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 20.10.2005 | ADRA
    The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is providing food security for thousands in Jamaica, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Niger, and Mongolia. In February of 2005, ADRA shipped a 40-foot container of seeds to Jamaica, launching the start of a project entitled, “Resuscitating Jamaica’s Farming Stock after Hurricane Ivan.” The project, serving 20,000 people and valued at more than US$9.000, is designed to help Jamaican farmers recover from the loss of crops after the onslaught

  • Starving Hurricane Stan Survivors in Central America Receive Food Aid from ADRA

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 18.10.2005 | ADRA
    The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) has begun its initial response to aid families in Central America whose lives have been ravaged by the heavy rains, flooding, and landslides caused by Hurricane Stan earlier this month. In El Salvador, ADRA is delivering food baskets to families whose homes have been damaged or destroyed during the hurricane. "In the shelters, hunger is real, and the scarcity of foodstuffs is creating a crisis across the country," reported Reynaldo Canales

  • Guatemala: Adventist Church Members Among Dead in Mudslides

    Guatemala City, Guatemala | 16.10.2005 | International
    Just days after Guatemala was hit by Hurricane Stan, which caused deadly mudslides that buried hundreds of people, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is still trying to account for missing church members. So far, church leaders confirm 22 members are dead and nearly 3,400 members' families' homes were damaged or destroyed in the wake of the hurricane and mudslides. The deadly mudslide was triggered last week after heavy rains overflowed Lake Atitlan in the Southwest region combined with the er

  • Report Finds Seventh-day Adventist Schools Doing Well, But Lists Areas of Concern

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 14.10.2005 | International
    Imagine an Adventist school with few or no Adventist teachers or students. Such a school might well have trouble maintaining an "Adventist environment," but that is the future facing several of the church's colleges and universities worldwide if they do not work to reverse current trends, an October 12 report concluded. The report, from the Adventist world church's Commission on Higher Education, was presented to members of the church's executive committee at its autumn business meeting. The

  • ADRA International President and Executive Vice-President Re-appointed

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 14.10.2005 | ADRA
    On October 12, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International Board re-appointed Charles Sandefur and Mario Ochoa as President and Executive Vice-President of ADRA International for a new term of duty. “We are humbled and honored for the opportunity to serve and work in this outstanding organization,” says Sandefur. “ADRA’s work is foundational to the improvement of quality of life worldwide for the millions of people whose lives we impact through our programs.” Sandefu

  • South Asian earthquake more devastating than tsunami

    Cairo/Egypt | 13.10.2005 | International
    South Asia's earthquake was more devastating than last year's Indian Ocean tsunami in terms of the number of homeless and destruction to infrastructure, a UN official said. Hussein Gezairy, who heads the World Health Organisation's Cairo-based regional office that covers Pakistan, said it would be "much, much more difficult" to reach quake victims in the Himalayas than the tsunami survivors. "In the tsunami 1.5 million people were made homeless, but in this case we expect more than 2.5 m

  • Adventist-Jewish Relationships In Serbia Celebrated

    Belgrade/Serbia | 13.10.2005 | International
    The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Serbia has celebrated a special week of "Adventist-Jewish Relationships". Pastor Richard Elofer, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Israel and a Jew by birth, was invited by the Serbian Adventists as guest speaker for the celebration week from September 26 to October 2. Travelling throughout the country Elofer lectured, ran courses and demonstrated Jewish style worship. Eight hundred people attended lectures and a special worship in Belgrade,

  • SMS Bible launched in Australia

    Sydney/Australia | 12.10.2005 | Bible
    Each verse of the English version of the Bible has been translated in Australia into text message-speak, so called "SMS-Language" to allow its lessons to be disseminated more easily. "The old days when the Bible was only available within a sombre black cover with a cross on it are long gone," said a spokesman for the national Bible Society. "In da Bginnin God cre8d da heavens & da earth," it begins. The Bible Society in Australia scripture director George Rodriguez said only the spellin

  • ADRA Increases Assistance to Earthquake Survivors in Kashmir, South Asia

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 21.10.2005 | ADRA
    In response to mounting dangers in the aftermath of the earthquake that hit South Asia on October 8, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) has increased its assistance for desperate survivors in Kashmir, providing food, clothes, tents, and more to families in need. ADRA is providing tents, blankets, water, and food packages to residents in the towns of Khajgan, Saddat, and Khan. The food packages will provide for a family of six for one month. The project will benefit a total of

  • World Association for Christian Communication decides on new directions and relocation

    Brighton/U.K. | 07.10.2005 | Ecumenism
    Significant and far-reaching changes were made by the Central Committee of the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) at a meeting held 1-6 October 2005 near the East Sussex town of Brighton. The former Central Committee, WACC’s governing body, will be replaced by a Board of Directors comprising its President, Treasurer, General Secretary and 16 elected representatives from its eight regions. The new Board of Directors approved the theme of ‘Communication for peace and social

  • Adventist World Church President Paulsen: Opening Annual Council, Points to Jesus as Unique One

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 07.10.2005 | International
    "The Second Coming of Christ is very good news indeed; and it is a unique event to be believed and preached," Pastor Jan Paulsen, world president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, declared in an October 7 sermon opening the church's Annual Council. "And, Seventh-day Adventists have a specific mandate to do that," he added. Paulsen delivered his sermon, "Embracing the Unique," at the start of the world church's administrative session to an audience of 500 delegates, guests and friends gath

  • Andrews University Gets Top Ranking in Diversity, International Makeup

    Berrien Springs, Michigan/USA | 05.10.2005 | International
    When Erica Slikkers and Kristin Denslow sit in their university classroom today, they sit next to students representing a rich tapestry of races and countries. Slikkers and Denslow attend a school that is regarded as one of the top educational institutions in the United States recognized for its diversity and international makeup of the student body. They are at Andrews University, a private school operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Berrien Springs, Michigan, and one of the denomina

  • Upcoming Adventist Church Annual Council Focuses on Organizational Matters

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 05.10.2005 | International
    More than 200 leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church from around the world will meet at the church's world headquarters starting October 10 for an annual meeting of the movement's Executive Committee. The event comes on the heels of the quinquennial world church session in St. Louis, Missouri, in July, and will address issues raised there as well as pending administrative matters. One of the major aspects of the, gathering, will be continued presentations on "Tell the World: A Vision fo

  • ADRA Improves Health and Access to Water in Sudan

    Darfur/Sudan | 03.10.2005 | ADRA
    The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) recently completed the Water Access Capacity Building project. This project improves hygiene practices and access to clean water for thousands of Sudanese in West Darfur, benefiting a total of 56,895 people. In less than a year, ADRA constructed 21 new wells and rehabilitated 85 broken wells in West Darfur. ADRA also trained 20 community hygiene promoters to encourage safer hygiene practices in western Darfur. They held 17 community presenta

  • Hungarian Jewish-Christian Theology Day

    Budapest/Hungary | 03.10.2005 | International
    The Hungarian Jewish-Christian Society (KZST) met on September 26 in the Central Seventh-day Adventist Church in Budapest to hear lectures, participate in discussion and listen to music organized by Catholic theologian József Szécsi, President of the Society. The opening address was presented by Andras Szilvási, President of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Hungary. Csaba Török, a Catholic theologian, emphasized in his presentation that "it is very important to 'remember'" referring his a

  • Jamaica Receives US$1.2 Million in Medical Supplies From ADRA

    Jamaica Receives US$1.2 Million in Medical Supplies From ADRA | 28.09.2005 | ADRA
    The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International has donated on September 21 pharmaceutical supplies worth of US$1.2 million to the Ministry of Health in Jamaica. The donation consisted of a variety of pharmaceutical products, such as ampicillin, ferrous sulphate, ibuprofen, multivitamin syrup, oral rehydration salts, paracetamol, tetracycline, vitamin A, amoxicillin, and various other antibiotics. It was given to the health sector in response to a shortage of pharmaceutical

  • Malnourished Malians Receive Food Aid from ADRA

    Bamako, Mali | 26.09.2005 | ADRA
    The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is starting an emergency relief project that will improve health and provide food to malnourished children and their families in Mali. The project aims to meet the nutritional needs of children under the age of five in the Gao region by distributing food and supporting food security projects, such as Food for Work and Food for Training. “Approximately 2.2 million people–20 percent of the Malian population–are likely to suffer from food in

  • ADRA Intensifies Efforts in Katrina Response

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 30.09.2005 | ADRA
    Five weeks after Hurricane Katrina tore through the Gulf Coast killing more than a thousand people, and leaving more than a million others displaced across the nation, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International remains active in the affected areas, providing clothing, food, emergency supplies, personal items, and funding to meet the needs of Katrina evacuees. ADRA has committed US$1 million for Katrina relief and to date has allocated close to half of that amount to loca

  • Anglican Vicar lauches 100-Minute Bible

    Canterbury/United Kingdom, | 21.09.2005 | Bible
    A new version of the Bible -- which, according to its author, can be read in 100 minutes -- was launched in Britain on September 21. The 100-Minute Bible, which says it summarizes every teaching from the Creation to the Revelation, was written by the Rev Michael Hinton, a former headteacher, who launched it at Canterbury Cathedral this morning. Mr Hinton said that it included all the best-known Bible stories, including Noah's Ark and the story of Jonah and the whale. [img id=582 align=righ

  • Adventist Peace Movement: Giving Peace a Chance in a World of Strife

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 21.09.2005 | International
    International Day of Peace 2005 In an often brutal world, one in which wars abound and chaos is everywhere, peace may be hard to find. But Seventh-day Adventists have a duty to promote peace, says Doug Morgan who, along with Ronald Osborn, began the Adventist Peace Fellowship (APF) in 2002, a society that exists to raise awareness of peacemaking. The organization's purpose is to "raise awareness and educate Adventists about the centrality of peacemaking," says Morgan, chair of the History

  • Protestant Missiologist: Do Not Replace Mission With Dialogue

    Bad Blankenburg/Germany | 18.09.2005 | International
    Protestant theologian Peter Beyerhaus, one of the best-known German missiologists, has urged Christians not to replace the proclamation of the Gospel with religious dialogue. Evangelicals should seek dialogue without neglecting mission, said Beyerhaus at a meeting of evangelical theologians in Blankenburg, Thuringia, in September. It would be detrimental for the church to neglect or disregard the Great Commission, emphasized Beyerhaus. Christians should not bow to the pressure of popular exp

  • UN World Summit adopts landmark outcome document on raft of crucial issues

    New York, N.Y./USA | 16.09.2005 | International
    Culminating the largest-ever gathering of world leaders, the United Nations General Assembly today adopted a historic outcome document encapsulating a unified stance by the international community on a broad array of crucial issues, from concrete steps towards combating poverty and promoting development to unqualified condemnation of all forms of terrorism along with the acceptance of collective responsibility to protect civilians against genocide and other crimes against humanity. "We reaff

  • World Issues: Global Poverty, A View From the Trenches

    New York, N.Y./USA | 16.09.2005 | International
    They are in the trenches everyday feeding, clothing, teaching, empowering and fighting diseases among other things. They are the ones that the world's governments and world bodies depend on to carry out plans to help make the world a better place. They are nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). More than 4,000 of them met in New York for three days starting September 7 to examine goals set by heads of state at the United Nations five years ago to improve life for every human being. The issues

  • Hurricane Katrina Evacuees Continue to Recieve Aid from ADRA

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 16.09.2005 | ADRA
    The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International continues to respond to the needs of survivors of Hurricane Katrina, pledging US$1 million in relief aid to be implemented through its local partners. Adventist Community Services (ACS), one of ADRA’s primary implementing partners, is currently distributing blankets, clothing, and personal kits to thousands of people left homeless by Katrina. It has also opened warehouses in Mississippi. Louisiana, Tennessee, and Alabama, benefi

  • Christian Leaders Call for Partnership Against Poverty

    Washington, D.C./USA | 15.09.2005 | International
    Churches and governments must pursue partnerships to eradicate extreme poverty if the Millennium Declaration of 2000 is to meet its 2015 deadline, faith leaders who met at a two-day summit at the Washington National Cathedral, said in a communiqué. Religious leaders from a wide range of denominations crafted and signed the communiqué outlining steps for governments and churches to take in building a global movement to help the poor. [img id=576 align=right]On Sept. 13, the document was p

  • U.S. Adventist Churches, Schools Begin to Tally Hurricane Damage as Relief Efforts Continue

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 13.09.2005 | International
    As relief in the hurricane and flood-damaged Gulf Coast region of the Southern United States continues, Seventh-day Adventists are also surveying churches and schools that have been damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Students from Southern Adventist University (SAU) in Collegedale, Tennessee, are actively involved in relief efforts in Mississippi and other areas, while Adventist churches throughout the United States are offering help to as many as possible. Meanwhile, satellite photos reveal

  • Jamaica: Adventists Commit Church Resources to Stop Violence

    Montego Bay, St. James, Jamaica | 13.09.2005 | International
    Two years ago, Pastor Glen O. Samuels was sitting in his car outside the home of a colleague when he found a gun pointed at his face. The man holding the gun was a well-known gang leader in the area. He wanted money and threatened to kill Samuels if he didn't get it. "I told him who I was, where I lived, and where I worked, and told him I had to go home and get my wallet as I had left it at home," Samuels recalls. He returned with his wallet and told the gang leader he would try to help him

  • Religious Leaders Challenge Churches To Partner With Governments In Eradicating Poverty

    Washington D.C./USA | 13.09.2005 | International
    Churches and governments must pursue partnerships to eradicate extreme poverty if the Millennium Declaration of 2000 is to meet its 2015 deadline concludes faith leaders who met at a two-day summit (September 11-13, 2005) at Washington National Cathedral. [img id=574 align=right]Religious leaders from the Northern and Southern hemispheres representing a wide range of denominations, including Anglicans, Roman Catholics, Reformed, Methodists, Evangelicals, Lutherans, Greek Orthodox, and Seventh

  • ADRA Responds to Flooding in Pakistan

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 12.09.2005 | ADRA
    In August, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) distributed relief aid to flood survivors in the province of Punjab in Pakistan. At the request of the local government, ADRA distributed aid in Layyah, one of the hardest hit areas. ADRA provided 700 families with food and 165 families with tents. Each aid package includes such items as flour, rice, sugar, salt, lentils, and tea. The tents can accommodate up to six adults. Priority in distribution was given first to women-he

  • Adventist Church's Hope Channel to Air Katrina Relief Television Special

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 09.09.2005 | International
    Thousands of Seventh-day Adventists, their churches and institutions are among the millions of people suffering in the Gulf Coast region of the United States following Hurricane Katrina. The storm's effect on the church and its members in the area is the subject of an international television special to air on the church's Hope Channel beginning September 9. The one-hour show includes interviews with Adventist relief workers and others. Nearly a dozen Adventist churches were either damaged o

  • 'Kare Katrina' Team Provides Relief to U.S. Hurricane Victims

    Purvis, Mississippi/USA | 07.09.2005 | International
    Four days after a devastating hurricane slammed into the Southern gulf coast of the U.S.A., more than 100 students, faculty, and staff from Andrews University, a Seventh-day Adventist institution in Berrien Springs, Michigan, arrived in the area to help provide disaster relief. The convoy, which included two busses, a van, and a truck full of supplies, arrived at Bass Memorial Academy, an Adventist boarding school, just outside Purvis, Mississippi, approximately 50 miles from the gulf coast,

  • U.S.A.: Adventists Aid Hurricane Survivors

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 31.08.2005 | International
    Hurricane Katrina's devastating effects can be seen in the flooded streets and homes of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi as residents try to recover from one of the worse hurricanes ever to hit the United States. The driving 165-mph winds and battering rains irrevocably changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, leaving behind flooded streets, damaged homes and nowhere to go. Katrina is responsible for at least 110 deaths and may claim hundreds or even thousands more, government

  • ADRA Commits Funding for North American Hurricane Katrina Relief

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 31.08.2005 | ADRA
    The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International has committed funding to Adventist Community Services (ACS) to provide relief aid to those affected by Hurricane Katrina. While ADRA operates emergency management programs worldwide, but outside of Northern America, it provides funding to local organizations, such as Adventist Community Services, when disaster strikes in the U.S.A. [img id=552 align=left]According to an August 30 news release from ACS, its disaster respons

  • Liberian Adventist Women Observe Abuse Prevention Day

    Monrovia, Liberia | 31.08.2005 | International
    Women of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Liberia paraded the principal streets of Monrovia August 26, carrying placards, some of which read: "I am not a punching bag"; "I am your child"; If you teach me hostility, I learn to fight"; among others. As they observed the National Abused Emphasis Day, they later assembled at the Monrovia City Hall for an indoor program. Since Liberia has been in the vanguard of the promotion of peace and dignity, the women argued that Liberians need to cont

  • ADRA Wins Prestigious National Award in Ghana

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 31.08.2005 | ADRA
    The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) was presented with the “International Development Partner Award for Excellence” on August 19 during the second Millennium Excellence Awards ceremony in Accra, Ghana. “The award was given in recognition of ADRA’s contribution to the development of the people of Ghana,“ said Samuel Asante-Mensah, country director for ADRA in Ghana. “We thank God for His leadership, as well as the Millennium Excellence Committee; and the government of Ghana for

  • Adventist Relief Crews From Region Set Out to Help Gulf Coast Victims

    Washington D.C./USA | 30.08.2005 | International
    Relief Crews From Region Set Out to Help By Michael Laris, Washington Post Staff Writer Volunteers and professional disaster workers from the Washington region began the launch yesterday of what will be a far-reaching relief effort to help Gulf Coast victims of Hurricane Katrina. They tried to contact their hurricane-buffeted colleagues in Louisiana and Mississippi, readied canine search teams and headed south in mobile canteens. In Fairfax County, a 34-person rescue team that inclu

  • Flood Survivors in India Receive Aid From ADRA

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 26.08.2005 | ADRA
    After heavy rainfall last month caused severe flooding in Maharashtra, India, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) responded to 500 families affected by the flooding with emergency aid and supplies. Each family received approximately 20 pounds of food, a blanket, a hygiene kit, and education on proper hygiene and sanitation practices. “Special emphasis was given to vulnerable and marginalized families,” noted Paulo Lopes, country director for ADRA India. “Women, children,

  • New 'Seventh-day Adventists Believe' Book Published

    Nampa, Idaho/USA | 23.08.2005 | International
    Six weeks after world church leaders voted a new fundamental belief statement, Seventh-day Adventists can now consult a 446-page reference volume offering a deeper explanation of what Adventist Christians believe, and why. The new paperbound volume, titled "Seventh-day Adventists Believe: An exposition of the fundamental beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church," has just been printed by the Pacific Press Publishing Association, one of the church's North American publishing houses, a church o

  • Roman Catholic "World Youth Day": Biggest Worship Service on German Soil

    Cologne/Germany | 23.08.2005 | Ecumenism
    Pope Benedict XVI Receives Mixed Reactions From German Protestants The Roman Catholic "World Youth Day 2005" has ended in the biggest worship service ever on German soil. More than one million participants from 200 countries celebrated an open air mass with Pope Benedict XVI near Cologne, August 21. [img id=547 align=left] During his homily for the closing Mass, Pope Benedict XVI encouraged the youth to pursue a pure and full faith, which does not pick and choose among doctrines. "If it i

  • Adventist World' Magazine Will Launch in September

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 18.08.2005 | International
    The "Adventist World," the international paper for Seventh-day Adventists, will launch in September, Dr. William G. Johnsson, Adventist World editor, said in an interview. The initial print run is for at least 1 million copies in English, with additional copies expected in Spanish and French. "We anticipate that at least 5 million people will read each issue of the Adventist World" magazine, Johnsson said, who also edits the Adventist Review (ISSN 0161-1119), the weekly general paper of the c

  • Founder of French religious Taize Community stabbed to death at evening prayers

    Founder of French religious Taize Community stabbed to death at evening prayers | 17.08.2005 | Ecumenism
    The founder of the French religious Taize Community, Brother Roger, 90, was stabbed to death on August 16 during evening prayers by a mentally disturbed, his community said. Police said that a 36-year-old Romanian woman was detained as a suspect. According to a news report of Agence France Press (AFP) Brother Roger was attacked with a knife during evening prayers attended by some 2,500 young people at the Reconciliation church in Taize, in the eastern Burgundy region. He was seriously wounded

  • Relief Aid Chief Technical Advisor Killed in Madagascar

    Antananarivo/Madagascar | 15.08.2005 | ADRA
    At approximately 7:00 p.m. on August 10, Fanja Michel Rakotomanana, chief technical advisor for the Food Security project for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) office in Madagascar, was killed when his motorcycle collided with an unlit parked truck. Rakotomanana was 40 years old. The accident happened on a long stretch of road six miles north of the city of Moramanga, Madagascar. “There was a thick fog covering the road, which prevented Michel from seeing the truck until it

  • Roman-Catholic "World Youth Day": Pope Benedict XVI on the road to Germany

    Cologne/Germany | 15.08.2005 | Ecumenism
    Today the curtain rises in Cologne, Germany, on the biggest event of the Roman-Catholic summer, as well as the most important road test to date of Benedict XVI’s papacy. World Youth Day (WYD) begins August 15 with Marian celebrations in local parishes, though Benedict XVI doesn’t arrive until Thursday, August 18. The weeklong festival of Roman Catholic youth, instituted by Pope John Paul II and known affectionately as the “Catholic Woodstock,” closes with a papal Mass on Sunday, August 21.

  • ADRA Receives Funding for Cleft Lip and Palate Project in Nepal

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 14.08.2005 | ADRA
    On June 24, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Japan received US$31,100 worth of International Voluntary Aid funds from Japan Post to help children with cleft lip and palate (CLP) disorders in Nepal. Of the 54 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that received International Voluntary Aid funding from Japan Post, ADRA’s Cleft Lip and Palate Project received the third largest funding. The project began in 1995, and since then has helped more than 1,300 patients who were born w

  • Humanitarian Disaster in Niger: ADRA Crisis Team Arrives

    Niamey/Niger | 09.08.2005 | ADRA
    The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) crisis assessment team arrived in Niger on August 5 to begin their assessment of the food shortage crisis in that country. They will continue to research the situation on the ground as well as contacting other non-governmental organizations (NGOs), potential donors, and other organizations for partnership opportunities until August 19. Once the assessment is complete, ADRA will begin to allocate private funding and contact interested governm

  • Hiroshima remembers atomic bomb

    Hiroshima/Japan | 06.08.2005 | International
    The Japanese city of Hiroshima has marked the anniversary of the moment an atomic bomb exploded above the city 60 years ago. Around 140,000 people were killed by the bomb and its aftermath. Nuclear survivors, known as Hibakusha, joined dignitaries at the annual commemoration in the Peace Park, built at the epicentre of the blast. The head of the UN has said the world has made little progress in tackling the spread of nuclear weapons. "Today, we are all Hibakusha," Kofi Annan said in a st

  • ADRA Assists Hurricane Survivors in the Ukraine

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 05.08.2005 | ADRA
    During the week of July 25 to July 29, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) began repairs on a schoolhouse for 127 kindergarteners in Mukachevo, Ukraine, whose school was badly damaged during a hurricane in late May. ADRA chose to repair kindergarten No. 23 after being contacted by the Mukachevo city council and the mayor. “This kindergarten is one of the most important projects for the community and also relates well to ADRA’s disaster response possibilities,” said Andriy Chupr

  • Adventist Church Holds First International HIV and AIDS Conference

    Berrien Springs, Michigan/USA | 04.08.2005 | Health & Ethics
    "HIV and AIDS Call to Compassion", the first international conference of its kind held by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, took place at U.S. based Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan, from June 23 to June 27, 2005. The conference was held in conjunction with an International Church Planting Conference on the same campus and focused on church planting from a world-in-need perspective. Between 75 and 100 people from around the world, including directors of various church ministri

  • Sydney is Next Stop For Adventist Church President

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 04.08.2005 | International
    To Seventh-day Adventist young people worldwide who wonder if the church is really listening to them, world church president, Pastor Jan Paulsen, says, "Yes." [img id=541 align=right]On September 5 Paulsen will continue a two-year series of conversations with young people. The program, called "Let's Talk... South Pacific," will broadcast from Sydney. It will air live, unscripted and unedited exchanges where Adventist young people from all over the South Pacific will speak with Paulsen about

  • Barriers lifting between U.S. Catholics and Evangelicals, say researchers

    Washington D.C./USA | 03.08.2005 | Ecumenism
    A news report from the Catholic News Agency (CNA) says the relationship between Evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics has improved dramatically in the United States of America in recent decades, and increasingly these two groups have ever more in common both politically and spiritually. According to the CNA article a number of Evangelical and Catholic researchers and scholars have observed this phenomenon and written about it. Richard Ostling of the Associated Press recently report

  • Number of Christians surges in China

    Beijing/China | 03.08.2005 | International
    A report in the Australian Daily newspaper "The Age" says that Chinese Christians currently outnumber members of the Communist Party. The Gospel message is being spread everywhere, in the countryside and in the cities, and even in uncommon places, like beauty salons. Xun Jinzhen, owner of a beauty salon near Beijing Zoo gives its customers more than they bargain for: not just facials and manicures, but the Word of God. Mr. Xun sees beauty salons as a good place to transform souls as well as

  • APD-Feature: Student-led Adventist Churches Grow on Public Campuses in Kenya

    Nairobi/Kenya | 03.08.2005 | International
    On a typical Saturday morning in the East Central African country of Kenya, more than half a million Christian gather in Seventh-day Adventist churches all over the country for worship and fellowship. On many of these mornings last year, 25-year-old Richard Mc'Otieno could be found standing behind the pulpit looking at the hundreds of faces of his fellow students at Kenyatta University as he delivered the morning sermon. As an ordained elder, or lay leader, for the Adventist Church on campus

  • Sudan: Adventist Students Stranded as Rioters Move Through Khartoum

    Khartoum, Sudan | 03.08.2005 | International
    Intense rioting and looting broke out in Khartoum, Sudan, after Monday's official announcement that the country's vice president, John Garang, had been killed in a helicopter crash. "I've been in contact with the church's regional office in Khartoum all morning and things are not good," says Michael Porter, president of the Adventist Church in the Middle East region. He adds that most of the students from the elementary self-help school, located in the same compound as the church offices

  • Adventist World Church Vice Presidents Assume Wide-Range of Roles

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 03.08.2005 | International
    Leaders at the world headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Silver Spring (Maryland/USA) have a special challenge: think globally, but also work to serve the interests of the church's fast growing membership. A faith community of 25 million Christian, Adventists live and worship in more than 200 countries around the world, with a wide variety of local needs. Pastor Jan Paulsen, world church president, works with a team of nine vice presidents whose responsibilities range from overse

  • ADRA Assists Flood Survivors in Tajikistan

    Silver Spring, Maryland /USA | 01.08.2005 | ADRA
    Throughout July, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International has provided emergency relief aid to 2,325 people affected by flooding in the Panjakent and Hamadoni regions of Tajikistan. From July 10 to July 17, ADRA delivered emergency aid to 215 families in Panjakent, providing 22 tons of essential food items, such as vegetable oil, sugar, rice, flour, and children’s food, and emergency nonfood supplies, such as kitchen utensils, blankets, bedding, towels, and clothes. T

  • 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

  • Korea: New Adventist Teenager

    Seoul, South Korea | 29.06.2005 | International
    A newly-organized church designed for young people -- the first of its kind in South Korea -- is attracting teenagers to the Toegyewon Seventh-day Adventist Church, 10 kilometers Northeast of Seoul, the nation's capital. The church structure is along the same lines as a church for young adults which opened in 2004 in the same city. "There is not enough suitable culture or programs for the youth or teens in church," says Joshua Dong Hee Shin, youth director for the church in the Northern Asia

  • Adventist Church In Sweden At 125 Years Commits To Evangelism

    Ekebyholm, Sweden | 29.06.2005 | International
    Swedish Seventh-day Adventists celebrated the 125th anniversary of the church's organization in their country with a five-day business meeting and spiritual session. The event was held in Ekebyholm, Sweden, and focused on ways to share the gospel story with yet more people. With a theme of "Come, Lord Jesus," 300 attendees responded positively to the challenge to win someone for the Lord in the next two years. "Throughout the business sessions and other meetings the emphasis has been on evan

  • Boonstra Takes Helm of the Adventist Television Ministry "It Is Written"

    Thousand Oaks, California/USA | 29.06.2005 | Media
    Shawn Boonstra could not have known many years ago as a child when he was watching "It Is Written" (IIW) on an old television set with his brother that one day he would take the helm of the international television ministry, affiliated with the Adventist Church.. The newly-appointed Boonstra is now the third speaker/director in the ministry's 50-year history, taking over from Mark Finley who was appointed director of Global Evangelism for the Seventh-day Adventist world church. The telev

  • Adventist Development Agency ADRA Assists Uzbek Refugees in Kyrgyzstan

    Adventist Development Agency ADRA Assists Uzbek Refugees in Kyrgyzstan | 27.06.2005 | ADRA
    On May 20, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) became one of the first humanitarian agencies to provide emergency supplies to 530 Uzbek refugees in Kyrgyzstan. The relief supplies included clothing, hygiene products, towels, blankets, medical supplies, books, toys, and other necessities valued at more than $20,000. “This assistance was vital for suffering people looking for asylum in the Kyrgyz Republic, and we express our gratitude for the participation of the organizations

  • Daughter of ADRA Worker Safe After Siege in Cambodia

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 24.06.2005 | ADRA
    Kanika Cowled, the daughter of an Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) worker in Cambodia, is safely back home with her family after four masked gunmen attacked her school June 16. Around 9:00 a.m. on last Thursday, four armed men stormed the Siem Reap International School in Siem Reap, Cambodia, taking hostage more than 30 students and teachers. The class that was taken hostage was primarily composed of kindergarten students, ranging in age from two to six years and representing 12

  • Book of Essays, Dinner, Honour Retiring Adventist Church Statesman Bert B. Beach

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 22.06.2005 | Ecumenism
    Paying tribute to decades of interfaith effort, friends and leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and others gathered at the church's world headquarters June 16 to honour Dr. Bert Beverly. Beach, director of inter-church relations for this protestant mainstream movement. "Building Bridges of Faith and Freedom," a Festschrift, or celebratory publication, honouring Dr. Beach was released at the dinner. It is believed to be the first such tribute published by a world church department.

  • Adventist Development Agency Marches Against Tobacco in Cambodia

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 22.06.2005 | ADRA
    On May 31, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) led a parade in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in celebration of World No Tobacco Day. Nearly 1,000 people participated in the demonstration, carrying signs and banners that promoted World No Tobacco Day and ADRA’s stop smoking campaign, the Tobacco or Health program. They also took part in a ceremony declaring the National Military Hospital (also known as Preah Ket Mealea Hospital) a “smoke-free zone.” “The parade was aimed at raising

  • Jamaica: Adventists Issue New Guidelines For Funerals

    Mandeville/Jamaica | 19.06.2005 | International
    The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jamaica, The Bahamas, Cayman and Turks and Caicos will no longer conduct funerals in its sanctuaries for deceased persons whose lifestyle were lawless and devoid of good principle. At the same time, the church will insist on a code of conduct barring mourners from wearing flesh-revealing attire, drinking alcohol, bearing firearms or vending in the precincts of the church. The decisions come as part of several companion measures recommended by the Issues

  • Most U.S. Teenagers Believe In The Resurrection

    Washington D.C./USA | 17.06.2005 | Bible
    Nearly three-quarters of American teenagers believe Jesus rose from the dead and will return to judge good and evil. A little over 11 per cent do not believe it and about 17 per cent are "not sure". Only 14 per cent think he will return in their lifetime, compared with just over 45 per cent who do not. These are among the findings of a survey conducted by the American Bible Society (ABS) of a thousand young people aged between 12 and 17. Asked what they would do differently if they knew

  • ADRA Implements Polio Eradication Campaign in Yemen

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 17.06.2005 | ADRA
    At the request of the Ministry of Health of Yemen, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is heading a campaign aimed at eradicating polio in Yemen. The project will vaccinate approximately 80,000 children under the age of five. It is also meant to stop an ongoing polio outbreak that began in late February, affecting approximately 179 children. Teams deployed by the Ministry of Public Health will complete the vaccination, going from house to house to vaccinate children in the com

  • Philippines: Government and Adventists in Healthy Lifestyle Festival

    Cebu City, Philippines, | 17.06.2005 | Health & Ethics
    Bringing better health to Central Philippines was the goal of a recent collaboration between Seventh-day Adventists and the Philippines government's Department of Health. The two-day "Healthy Lifestyle Festival" brought more than 2,000 participants to the campus of East Visayan Academy in Talisay City, Cebu, Central Philippines. Three hundred volunteers from the government and Adventist hospitals assisted in the festival, which offered "one-stop" health services and featured strategies for m

  • New President for U.S. Adventist Publishing House Pacific Press

    Nampa, Idaho/USA, | 15.06.2005 | International
    A 10-year veteran sales executive will become president of the Pacific Press Publishing Association, a Seventh-day Adventist owned publishing house, on August 11. Dale Galusha, currently vice president of sales and ministries, will succeed Robert Kyte, a 25-year veteran of Pacific Press who was its president for the past 16 years. Under Kyte's leadership, Pacific Press achieved and maintained financial stability while keeping pace with publishing industry technology. Kyte, an attorney, w

  • ADRA and NCC Unite in Cancer Battle in Ghana, Uganda, Burundi

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 14.06.2005 | ADRA
    The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) and the U.S. based National Cancer Coalition (NCC) have joined forces in the fight against cancer in Ghana, Uganda, and Burundi. [img id=464 align=right]In March, ADRA distributed US$200,000 of methotrexate donated by the NCC for the treatment of pediatric cancer patients in Uganda and more than US$150,000 of methotrexate for cancer patients in Burundi. These medicines will be used to treat leukemia in more than 100 African children for the

  • Religious Leaders Promise To Advocate The End Of Hunger In The World

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 14.06.2005 | International
    With fervour and conviction, religious leaders from Jewish, Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Muslim, Sikh and Buddhist traditions, urged more than 1,000 participants at the first Interfaith Convocation on Hunger at the Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital on June 6 to advocate for the end of hunger in the United States and abroad. Increasing worldwide hunger rates -- some 852 million people across the globe are going hungry, including nearly 6 million children who die each year from

  • Serbia: Increased Attacks On Religious Minorities

    Belgrade/Serbia | 10.06.2005 | Religious Liberty
    By Branko Bjelajac, Forum 18 News Service Serbia has seen a sharp upsurge in attacks on religious minorities, with more than one hundred recorded incidents in 2004, double that of the previous year. This high level has continued in 2005, with more than 25 in the first five months of this year, Forum 18 News Service has found in its survey of the attacks, which range from slander and vilification of religious minorities in the media to physical attacks on places of worship and individuals. Bap

  • Adventist Health Addresses HIV/AIDS in the South Pacific

    Lae/Papua New Guinea | 10.06.2005 | Health & Ethics
    "HIV/AIDS in Papua New Guinea is no longer a problem, but a crisis," reported Gad Koito, director of health ministries for the Papua New Guinea Union Mission (PNGUM), quoting Papua New Guinea’s Minister for Health. "And as a church, we have started very late," he added. His comments were part of a report from the Commission on HIV/AIDS established by the church's administrative South Pacific Division (SPD), delivered to the SPD executive committee’s midyear meeting. At present, 12,000 HIV/AI

  • California/USA: Blaze devastates Dobbins Adventist church

    Dobbins, California/USA | 09.06.2005 | International
    The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is investigating the cause of an early-morning fire that heavily damaged a Yuba County foothills church June 7. The fire gutted the central part of the Dobbins Seventh-day Adventist Church on the 10000 block of Marysville Road and caused US$300,000 in damages, according to Tina Rose, a spokeswoman for the Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit of the CDF. A passerby noticed the fire at around 5:15 a.m. and called authorities, she said. The caus

  • New Zealand: Adventist church in Levin gutted in suspicious blaze

    Leviin/New Zealand | 09.06.2005 | International
    Members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Levin are heartbroken that almost a year of renovations have gone up in smoke. The church building was gutted by fire early morning on June 8. "I feel deep sadness," said church secretary Sheila McNabb. "A place we've worshipped in for a number of years is gone. "I got there when the fire was out. It was black, wet, dirty and horrible." Police are treating the blaze, which started shortly after 3am, as suspicious. The fire comes four years

  • Venezuela: Traveling to Adventist Children’s Ministry Conference: <br><br>Car Accident Claims 5 Lives, One Left Critical

    Barquisimeto, Venezuela | 08.06.2005 | International
    The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Venezuela and throughout Inter-America is mourning the loss of five of its members after a tragic automobile accident on Friday, June 3. Among the dead were three women and two children. One woman remains in critical condition. "Our Division suffers because of this tragic loss, especially the faithful workers on the road on their way to do their duty. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the church in Venezuela and especially the ministerial families who

  • President of South Pacific Adventists: Time to spread the Gospel of Hope is now

    Wahroonga, New South Wales/Australia | 07.06.2005 | International
    The president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific, Pastor Laurie Evans, called on Adventist church members to recommit to the gospel commission at the opening of the mid-year meetings of the executive committee of the Church’s administrative South Pacific Division, headquartered near Sydney (Australia). Pastor Evans referred to the tsunami tragedy in southeast Asia and the death of Pope John Paul II as signs of the times, during his report. "If ever the world needed to he

  • Poland: New Bible Society Premises Herald A Bright Future For Bible Work

    Warsaw/Poland | 06.06.2005 | Bible
    The Bible Society in Poland has officially opened on May 13 new premises with a bookshop on Marszalkowska Street (ul. Marsza&#322;kowska 15A) in the capital Warsaw. In November 2004 the Bible Society has been forced to leave its premises on Warsaw’s Nowy Swiat Street, after almost 60 years of activity there. Folowing a High Court decision, the Society lost a long-running legal case, spanning more than 30 years, over the ownership of the Bible House at Nowy Swiat Street. More than 75 guests an

  • Third Session of Theological Dialogue between Pentecostal and Reformed Churches

    Detmold/Germany | 01.06.2005 | Ecumenism
    Delegations of some classical Pentecostal churches and of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) met in Detmold (Germany), from May 25 to 31, 2005. It was the third session of an international dialogue on "Experience in Christian Faith and Life" which began in 2002, following the first five-year round of theological conversations on "Word and Spirit, Church and World" (1996-2000). According to a published Joint Communiqué, the theme of this year's meeting was how Pentecostal and Refor

  • ADRA Launches New Interactive Web Site

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 01.06.2005 | ADRA
    The Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA) launched its interactive new Web site on June 1, giving internet users an opportunity to make a difference and stay informed with just the click of a button. "Our new Web site is designed to better connect people with what we’re doing worldwide. Some of the exciting new features include a video message from ADRA’s president, streaming of ADRA’s World Radio and ADRA’s World Presents video segments, and comprehensive features on i

  • Adventists In Botswana Mining Town Declared War On Alcoholism

    Selebi-Phikwe/Botswana | 01.06.2005 | International
    The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) in Selebi-Phikwe, a mining town located in the north-east of Botswana, has declared war on alcoholism and called on the community to join in the fight, reports the Botswana Press Agency (BOPA). The Adventist Church declared its fight against alcoholism, which seems to be joining HIV/AIDS in destroying our beloved nation, says an SDA youth member at the end of a march against the vice. The SDA youth member, Keolebogile Mbulawa, said on behalf of the ch

  • Australia: Woman's Four-year Detention Ends

    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | 27.05.2005 | International
    A family from Papua New Guinea, who six months ago faced detention and deportation from Australia, is celebrating a reunion and the chance to remain in Australia. On April 29, Macarthur Adventist School in Macquarie Fields, Sydney, where two of Sereana Naikelekele's children attended, celebrated the release of Mrs. Naikelekele and three of her young children from the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre. The family was held at the Centre after the Australian Migration Review Tribunal f

  • Peru: Adventist Evangelist Finley Leads

    Lima, Peru | 27.05.2005 | International
    The protestant mainstream Seventh-day Adventist Church in Peru is continuing its astronomical growth with a series of evangelism meetings in five of the country's major cities from May 23 to 28. The meetings, called "Caravan of Hope," will be led by Pastor Mark Finley and the It Is Written television ministry. The meetings will be held in stadiums and coliseums, with capacities of up to 60,000 people, in Tacna, Arequipa, Trujillo, Lima South and Lima North. The meetings will also be broadcas

  • Christian Churches are growing more swiftly in the South, said Letter from Athens

    Athens/Grece, | 24.05.2005 | Ecumenism
    A letter from participants at the World Council of Churches (WCC) Conference on Mission and Evangelism recognizes that the centre of gravity of world Christianity has moved from the Northern hemisphere to the South and East. "We stand now at a particular moment in the history of mission. While the centres of power are still predominantly in the global North, it is in the South and the East that the churches are growing most rapidly," stated the letter. According to 2004 data from the Encyc

  • Bible Reading in Australia at Crisis Levels

    Canberra/Australia | 20.05.2005 | Bible
    The last Australian Church Life Survey showed that only 19% of church attendees read the Bible daily or on most days; 12% of respondents read the Bible a few times a week, 5% once a week, 27% occasionally and 37% hardly ever or never! In an attempt to improve these statistics, seven Scripture-promoting organisations have joined hands to encourage all Australian Christians to develop a habit of daily Bible reading. The Bible Society, Bible League Australia, Global Recordings, The Pocket Tes

  • ADRA Distributes Free World No Tobacco Day Kits

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 19.05.2005 | Health & Ethics
    To commemorate World No Tobacco Day on May 31, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is providing free World No Tobacco Day kits. The kits include a poster, announcements, ADRA tobacco-free project updates and activity ideas. A free video and lapel stickers are also offered. The materials promote a tobacco-free lifestyle and educate on the impact of tobacco, especially on developing countries. The kits can be downloaded at www.adra.org or be requested by calling in the USA 1.80

  • Serbia: Law May Discriminate Against Religions Not Approved by State

    Belgrade, Serbia | 18.05.2005 | Religion + State
    The basic human right of freedom of conscience may be under siege in Serbia, as the government is reportedly waiting for input from the Serbian Orthodox Church on a proposed new law detailing religious rights. A formerly public process is now shrouded in secrecy, religious leaders and human rights watchers say. "At the moment there are no statements for the press and no information," Religion Minister Milan Radulovic told the Forum 18 News Service on May 12. "When the time comes, all will be

  • Rwanda: Adventist Church Can't 'Walk Away' From University, Paulsen Says

    Kigali, Rwanda | 13.05.2005 | International
    The Adventist University of Central Africa (AUCA) will soon be housed in a new 50-acre campus in Masoro, a Kigali neighborhood. Pastor Jan Paulsen, world president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, participated in a foundation-laying ceremony there May 12. The new campus will replace one formerly operated by the Adventist church that is now occupied by Rwandan armed forces. The government has purchased the old campus from the church. Classes are being held in a downtown Kigali facility to

  • 44 Youth Killed In Road Accident in Zambia

    Kawambwa, Zambia | 12.05.2005 | International
    A fatal road accident killed 44 students of Kawambwa High School on April 8, near Tumbajushi falls, 17 km from Kawambwa, a district town of Zambia. Among them were 18 Adventist youth. It was the last day of the school term when 110 students packed into a truck on the way to their respective homes when the accident happened. The Mitsubishi truck was heading for Mununga, Chiengi and Kaputa. According to a witness who survived the accident, the driver of the truck lost control when descendi

  • Lesotho: Sewing Teaches Women with HIV/AIDS Self-Sufficiency

    Maseru, Lesotho | 12.05.2005 | Health & Ethics
    In a region where poverty and HIV/AIDS are inextricably linked, a recent workshop in Lesotho taught women sewing skills as a means of income generation. The "Workshop on Sewing for HIV Positive Women" is a small but significant step towards self-sufficiency where a third of the tiny country's adult population is living with HIV/AIDS. Twenty-four women attended the six-day workshop organized by Dr. Eugenia Giordano, associate director of Adventist - AIDS International Ministry (AAIM) and Hari

  • Zambia: Adventist Church Centenary Draws Country

    Rusangu, Monze, Zambia | 12.05.2005 | International
    Returning to the mission station where Seventh-day Adventist Church work first began in Zambia a century ago, Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa joined church officials and members in noting the 100th anniversary on May 6. The following day, former President Kenneth Kaunda, who led the nation for 27 years, visited the celebrations. "I want ... to commend the Seventh-day Adventist Church and other churches for the tireless efforts to fight evil in our society through the preaching of the word o

  • Adventist Church Opens New Regional Headquarters Building in Kenya

    Mbagathi, Nairobi, Kenya | 12.05.2005 | International
    Some 28 months after it was organized as a new division, or trans-national region, of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the East-Central Africa Division's new headquarters complex in Mbagathi, a suburb of Nairobi, were officially opened on May 9 by Pastor Jan Paulsen, world church president, along with the Hon. Dr. A.A. Moody Awori, vice president and minister for Home Affairs of the Republic of Kenya. In Kenya "we may look poor but are actually sitting on plenty! May you find our country an

  • Uganda President Museveni met Adventist World Church Leader; University Sabbath Resolution Pledged

    Kampala, Uganda | 12.05.2005 | International
    Uganda President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni said his government will "see what we can do" to resolve Sabbath, or Saturday, scheduling conflicts faced by more than 300 Seventh-day Adventist students at the country's Makerere University, the nation's leading public tertiary school. "I will consult and we will see what we can do to resolve the issue," President Museveni said during a May 9 meeting with Pastor Jan Paulsen, world president of the Adventist Church, who is on his first visit to Uganda.

  • Desired Bible Formats Changing in China

    Nanjing/China | 10.05.2005 | Bible
    For the first time in the recent history of Bible printing in China the production of pocket-sized Bibles in 2004 exceeded that of the standard-sized Bible by 500,000. The trend is continuing in 2005 with 500,000 produced in the first 4 months of the year compared with 300,000 of the standard-sized Bibles. The reason for the change in preference is an increasing demand for Bibles from young Chinese. More and more of them are asking for Bibles and the pocket-sized edition is the one they want.

  • News Coverage of Adventist World Session 2005 on Adventist World Radio

    St. Louis, Illinois/USA | 06.05.2005 | Media
    For 10 minutes each day for about two weeks this summer, Adventist World Radio (AWR) will add something new to its regular broadcast. It will broadcast highlights of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s 58th General Conference Session, which will be held from June 30 to July 9, 2005, in the America’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri (USA). In keeping with its mandate to share the Adventist hope in Christ with the hardest to reach people groups in their own languages, Adventist World Radio will be

  • Cameroon: Crash Claims Life of Local Adventist Church President

    Douala, Cameroon | 06.05.2005 | International
    Seventh-day Adventist Church Pastor Celestin Rakotoarisoa Hermanana , 44, was killed May 4 in a bus crash while returning to Douala from Yaounde, the nation's capital. He is survived by his wife and two young sons. Pastor Hermanana, a native of Madagascar and a missionary to Cameroon, was president of the church in West Cameroon. He was one of the first graduates of the Adventist University of Central Africa in Rwanda, and after pastoring churches in Madagascar and serving as local church pr

  • ADRA Launches Tsunami Recovery in Somalia

    Nairobi/Kenya | 05.05.2005 | ADRA
    The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is launching a recovery project in Somalia to aid survivors of last December’s tsunami. ADRA is supplying livelihood support items, improving access to safe water and sanitation facilities, and training and conducting seminars on hygiene and health topics. The project will provide livelihood support items including boats, fishing equipment, tents, and household items. The water and sanitation infrastructure component includes construction o

  • Poland: Current World Situation, Church-State Relations Discussed

    Warsaw, Poland | 04.05.2005 | International
    Poland's new status as a member of the European Union, and developments within the Seventh-day Adventist Church, were main topics of discussion between Aleksander Kwasniewski, president of the Republic of Poland, and Bert B. Beach, general secretary of the Adventist World Church's Council on Inter-Church Relations. The two met April 26. "It was both an honour and pleasure to meet President Kwasniewski again," said Beach. "He has always been open to and favourable to the Seventh-day Adventist

  • Editorial: The Papacy in Transition

    | 04.05.2005 | Commentary
    By William G. Johnsson, Adventist Review So much has been written about the late pope John Paul II that further comment is superfluous. His life, work, and influence have been analyzed at great length; there is nothing one could add. My remarks that follow attempt a personal, unofficial perspective on the Papacy as it transitions from one of its most powerful leaders to a new pontiff. First, a word to those Roman Catholics who will read this editorial. Some Seventh-day Adventists, with more z

  • Belarus: Adventist Publishing and Education Breakthroughs

    Minsk, Belarus | 04.05.2005 | International
    Considered a breakthrough for a protestant mainstream church, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Belarus just released the first edition of a church magazine for public distribution. Adventists in Belarus have "lately experienced a number of achievements," said Valery Ivanov, communication director of the church in the Euro-Asia region. The Belarus minister of information signed the registration agreement for an Adventist missionary magazine, The Christian Family. It is anticipated that

  • ADRA

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 30.04.2005 | ADRA
    The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) has launched in March ADRA's World Radio, a weekly 30-minutes show featuring stories from the front lines of ADRA's fight against poverty. ADRA's World Radio can be heard each Saturday at 2 p.m. U.S. Eastern time on the LifeTalk Radio Network. Beginning in May, the show can be listened through online streaming at www.adra.org . On ADRA's Web site a station list is available to determine what station broadcasts the show in your area. ADRA's

  • Sri Lankan President, Prime Minister attend ADRA water project ceremony

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 30.04.2005 | ADRA
    The Honorable Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksha and Her Excellency President Chandrika Kumratunga Badaraneyaka attended the opening ceremony for a building project in Sri Lanka for which the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is providing water. ADRA will provide water to the two hundred permanent houses that will be built on 78 acres of land provided by the Sri Lankan government. The development will be located in the Tangalle division of the Hambantota District of

  • Adventist Church President Encourages European Adventist Youth to 'Become Owners, Take Responsibility' in Church

    Darmstadt, Germany, | 27.04.2005 | International
    Young adults in the Seventh-day Adventist Church must "become owners, take responsibility ... in your church, in your congregation," Pastor Jan Paulsen, world church president, told a multi-national audience of European Adventist students during a live broadcast April 26. The program was held at Marienhoehe Adventist Church on the campus of Marienhoehe College in Darmstadt, Germany. Called "Let's Talk -- Europe," the broadcast, hosted by Gabi Ziegler, an Adventist journalist, featured church

  • USA: Fire At Southern Adventist University Claims One Student, Injures Two Others

    Collegedale, Tennessee/USA, | 26.04.2005 | International
    A 3:30 a.m. fire in a women's residence hall at Southern Adventist University claimed the life of a 20-year-old female student and sent two others to a local hospital Tuesday, April 26. Kelly Weimer, a junior English major from Woodridge, Illinois, was killed in the blaze. Treated and released at Erlanger Medical Center were Jen Bigham, a freshman broadcast journalism and psychology major from Biglerville, Pennsylvania and Cassandra Snyder, a freshman general studies student from Lansdowne,

  • Adventist World Church President To Talk With European University Students

    Darmstadt/Germany | 21.04.2005 | International
    All topics will be open for discussion when Seventh-day Adventist world church president, Pastor Jan Paulsen, meets with Adventist students from more than 10 European countries April 26 in Darmstadt, Germany. "Let's Talk…Europe," to be broadcast live by satellite across Europe, will be the third in a series of unscripted, unedited conversations between young people and their church leader. It will be the first time the program is held outside the United States. For Pastor Paulsen, the one-ho

  • Pope Benedict XVI's Message to Cardinals

    Rome/Italy | 21.04.2005 | Ecumenism
    "A Church That … Has No Fear of the Future" Here is a translation of Pope Benedict XVI's first full-length message, which he read in Latin at the end of a Eucharistic concelebration with members of the College of Cardinals. He presided over the Mass April 20 in the Sistine Chapel. * * * Venerable Brother Cardinals, Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Men and Women of Good Will! 1. May grace and peace be multiplied to all of you (cf. 1 Peter 1:2)! In these hours, two contrasti

  • WCC-General Secretary Kobia prays Benedict XVI. for renewed commitment to ecumenical openess and a dialogue of conversion

    Geneva/Switzerland | 20.04.2005 | Ecumenism
    In congratulating the newly-elected pope, World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia prayed for "renewed commitment" to "ecumenical openess" and "a dialogue of conversion". Describing Benedict XVI as a man "known for his theological integrity and ecclesial loyalty, his evangelical simplicity and pastoral sensitivity," Kobia expressed his hope that his pontificate will "constitute a time for the Roman Catholic Church to apply, in a renewed commitment, the teachings

  • German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger chosen to be Pope Benedict XVI

    Rome/Italy | 20.04.2005 | Ecumenism
    by Luigi Sandri A puff of white smoke and loud bell ringing from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel announced that German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was on April 19 (Tuesday) chosen to be Pope Benedict XVI to lead the 1-billion member Roman Catholic Church. "Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope, John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble worker in the Lord's vineyard," the new Pope said when he emerged on the Vatican balcony an hour after the white smoke started

  • Geneva: New International Museum Of The Reformation Opened

    Geneva/Switzerland | 18.04.2005 | International
    The new International Museum of the Reformation has opened its door in Geneva on April 15, 2005. Located in the beautiful Maison Mallet, built on the site where the citizens of Geneva voted to adopt the Reformation in 1536, the museum retraces the major events that contributed to the foundation, and the divisions, of a movement whose influence is still felt all over the globe. The inauguration of the Museum of the Reformation marks the completion of a much-awaited project in the history of Pr

  • U.S. College Survey Shows Many Coeds Have Strong Spirituality; 8 of 10 Believe In God

    Washington D.C./USA | 17.04.2005 | International
    Contrary to what many think, today's college campuses are hotbeds of religiosity and prayer, according to the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California. A survey of 112,232 current freshmen attending 236 colleges and universities (18 percent of them connected with religions) sponsored by the institute finds 8 out of 10 say they attend religious services, believe in God, and are interested in spirituality. The institute, based in Los Angeles, has been surveying college

  • North American Adventist Health Study Searches for Link Between Diet and Cancer

    Loma Linda, California/USA | 17.04.2005 | Health & Ethics
    Lydia Newton from the U.S. State of Arizona belongs to a small but growing club. At age 112, she is one of an estimated 180,000 people around the world who are a hundred years and older. Newton is also one of the 26 centenarians participating in the second Seventh-day Adventist Health Study conducted by researchers at the California based School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, in partnership with Oakwood College and the Seventh-day Adventist church in USA and Canada. The school is r

  • Eritrean Information Minister Confirms State Recognition Process of Adventist Church

    Asmara/Eritrea | 17.04.2005 | Religious Liberty
    The Eritrean government which has vehemently denied persistent accusations of persecuting minority religious groups, will soon permit the mainstream protestant Seventh-day Adventist Church to operate legally in the country, officials said. "The Seventh-day Adventist Church is about to be authorized, it is at the final stage of the procedure," Eritrean Information Minister Ali Abdu said, according the South African News resource "News24". The Adventist Church immediately welcomed the news

  • Florida: Adventist And United Church Of Christ Congregations Share Church Sanctuary

    Lady Lake, Florida/USA | 17.04.2005 | Ecumenism
    In the true spirit of Christian love, Pastor Clyde Thomas and his congregation at the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Lady Lake (Florida) agreed to rent their church to the Rev. Bill Wealand and his congregation at The United Church of Christ for worship services until the Church of Christ's new sanctuary is completed. Wealand was very pleased to have a semi-permanent home for his congregation, which has been holding services at various places. "First we met at the Hope Lutheran Church at

  • Albanian Television Coverage For Adventist Church Plant Program

    Elbasan/Albania | 15.04.2005 | International
    A celebration of the 200th anniversary of Hans Christian Andersen on April 2, 2005, received National Television news coverage for the Seventh-day Adventist Elbasan church plant. More than 70 people attended the celebration organised by church planters Genti and Sanda Thomollari. The program included a presentation by Genti on the life of Andersen, and a review of the themes of his literature, by Sanda. Children from the 'community children's program' performed a drama enacting Andersen's story,

  • Political Agendas Of British Evangelicals May Be Broadening

    London, United Kingdom | 15.04.2005 | Ecumenism
    There are signs that the political agendas of Evangelicals may be broadening in the UK beyond traditional 'moral' issues of sexuality, abortion and family policy, for which their campaigns are so well known. In a major survey (8 April 2005) to gauge the political opinions of Evangelicals in the run up to the General Election an overwhelming majority signalled their desire to see political parties take action to end global poverty. Of the two thousand Christians polled by the Evangelical

  • Adventist Church Standing Commission to Examine Headquarters Ministries, Services

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 15.04.2005 | International
    World leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church today voted to receive a report advocating reorganization of several world church departments, and to pass that report on to a new standing commission that will evaluate church operations in the five-year period beginning after the world church's business meeting this summer. "I think it is a good idea for our church ... to have a standing [commission] to address the issues of our mission and organization," said Pastor Jan Paulsen, world chur

  • Plan Voted to Distribute Church Founder’s books to Every Adventist Family

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 15.04.2005 | International
    Leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist church unanimously voted at an April 14 business meeting to put into action a plan to distribute globally 2 million books written by one of the church's founders, Ellen G. White. The project called, "Connecting With Jesus," was initially presented at Annual Council, the fall business meeting for the church's leaders. "We need to get these beautiful messages ... into the hands of thousands of believers who do not have access to them," Ted Wilson, a vice pr

  • Seventh-day Adventist Church: Leaders, Missiologists Discuss Issues Relative to Frontline Mission Work

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 14.04.2005 | International
    In a world of six billion people -- including 25 million who attend weekly Seventh-day Adventist Church worship services -- it's known that there are other Christian groups who observe the Sabbath, or Saturday, as their day of worship. A question for Adventists is how to deal with these groups of believers who operate outside the traditional organizational structure of the church. This was one of the issues raised at the annual Global Mission Issues Committee held April 4 and 5 at the church

  • Next Adventism - Subject of Lecture, Discussion at Columbia Union College

    Takoma Park, Maryland/USA | 14.04.2005 | International
    Future prospects for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in what is called the "global South" may be very good, said Philip Jenkins, author and distinguished professor of religion and history at Pennsylvania State University in Pennsylvania, United States. That's because parts of the world where the Bible is read and taken seriously are prime candidates for the church's presentation of prophecy, as typified by the books of Daniel and Revelation. Defining the "global South" as including sub-Saha

  • Adventist World Church: Spring Meeting Opens With Mission, Financial Reports

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 14.04.2005 | International
    There seems to be a new stirring in parts of the world not previously open to evangelism," declared Pastor Mark Finley, director of global evangelism for the Seventh-day Adventist world church. "We see in some of the most difficult places today, the grace of God working, the hearts of people being opened." That report was the first thing world leaders of the Adventist Church heard as the 2005 Spring Meeting of the church opened April 13 in Silver Spring, Maryland. The two-day session include

  • Released U.S. Marine Hopes for Appeal and Prepares for College

    Jacksonville, North Carolina/USA | 13.04.2005 | International
    Joel David Klimkewicz is a United States Marine whose decision not to pick up a weapon, led to a court-martial, conviction and a seven-month jail sentence. He was released from jail at nearby Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, United States, on April 6; his prison sentence was suspended while his case is being appealed. Ironically, Klimkewicz is hoping that one of a series of military court appeals might allow him to return to Camp Lejeune -- or another installation -- as a military chaplain. He

  • Eritrea: Adventist Church Welcomes Developments Toward Registration

    Geneva, Switzerland, | 13.04.2005 | Religious Liberty
    A positive comment on the process of church registration, made by the head of the Eritrean Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, brought a welcome from the U.N. representative of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. "Only four have duly registered and, as you may have heard this morning from the representative of the Seventh-day Adventist Mission, the screening process of their respective applications will be finalized in the near future. We urge other groups to follow the good example," sai

  • Radio Address of President Bush to the Nation

    Washington D.C./USA | 10.04.2005 | Religion + State
    The following is a transcript of radio address of President Bush to the nation: THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week I have been in Rome to attend the funeral mass of Pope John Paul II. The ceremonies were a powerful and moving reminder of the profound impact this Pope had on our world. And on behalf of America, Laura and I were honored to pay tribute to this good and holy man. During nearly three decades on the Chair of St. Peter, this Pope brought the gospel's message of hope and love

  • Analysis: Bonhoeffer and pope – parallels

    Washington D.C./USA | 10.04.2005 | Religion + State
    By Uwe Siemon-Netto, UPI Religious Affairs Editor Sixty years ago this Saturday, Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged at Flossenbuerg concentration camp in Bavaria, just days before U.S. forces liberated the camp. The Allies arrived too late to save him and fellow members of the German resistance against Hitler. Only days before his execution, Bonhoeffer had told the other condemned prisoners, "Let us calmly go to the gallows as Christians." When the great Protestant theologian was led

  • U.S. Senator Clinton Lauds Adventists for Supporting Religious Freedom

    Washington D.C./USA | 08.04.2005 | Religion + State
    "Religious liberty is one of the most important issues on the world's agenda today," said United States Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York who made the case for both freedom of religion and the right not to choose one at a dinner sponsored by the International Religious Liberty Association (IRLA) and "Liberty" magazine, both religious freedom outreaches sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. "Those of us who are people of faith are so aware of what that means in our lives tha

  • United Nation's Kofi Annan Calls for Better Treatment of Human Rights

    Geneva/Switzerland | 08.04.2005 | Religious Liberty
    United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan called for major changes to the way human rights are investigated and applied, saying the current UN Commission on Human Rights has been "undermined by the politicization of its sessions," and its "declining credibility has cast a shadow on the reputation of the United Nations system as a whole." Speaking to the current session of the Commission on Human Rights on April 7, Annan proposed new methods of better implementing the existing rules, ensuri

  • Adventist Church In Jamaica Holds Day of Prayer and Fasting Against Violence

    Kingston, Jamaica | 08.04.2005 | International
    Seventh-day Adventists in over 600 churches across Jamaica, dedicated Saturday March 5, 2005, as a day of prayer and fasting to seek the Lord’s intervention in Jamaica’s spiraling crime and violence problem. In the first of two special services held at the Andrews Memorial Seventh Day Adventist Church and the Meadowvale Seventh-day Adventist Church, Pastor Patrick Allen president of West Indies Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, admonished the congregation to "believe in God and stan

  • "How to Reform the UN Commission on Human Rights?" - Adventists Participate in Dialogue

    Geneva, Switzerland | 06.04.2005 | International
    Having come in for much criticism of late for its lack of effectiveness and credibility, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) seems set for reform. At an open meeting on March 30 attended by Mrs. Louise Arbour, High Commissioner for Human Rights, the whole issue of reform was raised and debated by members of civil society, including representatives of the protestant mainstream Seventh-day Adventist Church. In her remarks, Arbour said she wanted to "conceive of a body that

  • Adventist Church Address the UN Human Rights Commission

    Geneva, Switzerland | 06.04.2005 | International
    Attending the 61st Human Rights Commission of the United Nations (UNCHR) this month (April), Seventh-day Adventist church representative Dr. Jonathan Gallagher addressed the body on matters of great concern such as religious persecution, freedom of conscience, and women’s rights; and to plead for a ban on the imposition of the death penalty for changing religion. "The Commission remains a vital forum for presenting human rights issues," says Gallagher. "Despite the negative attitude to the Co

  • Philippines: Adventist Church Gets Commemorative Postal Stamp for Centennial

    Manila, Philippines | 06.04.2005 | International
    Joining the ranks of approximately two dozen entities, the Republic of the Philippines has released a postal commemoration of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's 100 years in the country. The stamp depicts "God watches over Manila," a painting rendered by O.T. Navarra in 1967 that was displayed at the Manila Adventist Medical Center. It also includes the Seventh-day Adventist logo that reflects the core values the church is committed to, and a new Adventist Church in the Northern Philippines.

  • U.S. Marine, Jailed Over Non-Combatant Request, Released From Brig Early

    Camp Lejeune, North Carolina/USA | 06.04.2005 | International
    Marine Private Joel David Klimkewicz, court-martialed in December 2004 in a dispute over his request for non-combatant status, has been released from a jail at the U.S. Marine Corps base at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, on April 5, Adventist church attorney Mitchell Tyner said. Klimkewicz, 24, was a combat engineer with the 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, with headquarters at Camp Lejeune, and was convicted on a charge of refusing to obey an order from a commanding officer who asked that the M

  • Sudan: Abducted Adventist Relief Workers From ADRA Released

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 05.04.2005 | ADRA
    Three workers employed by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) who were abducted on December 16, 2004, on their way to West Darfur, Sudan, have been released and are safely back home with their families. The three men, all Sudanese nationals, were abducted in Labado while en route from Khartoum, the Sudanese capital. They were held in the Darfur region along with equipment and supplies they were taking to West Darfur to construct water wells to benefit 80,000 Internally Displac

  • Adventist Relief Agency ADRA Assists Flood Survivors in Brazil

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 05.04.2005 | ADRA
    The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is providing disaster relief to 3,525 people affected by the recent flooding in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. ADRA is distributing mattresses, water filters, and medical support to families with the greatest need. The project, valued at $12,850 is funded by ADRA International, ADRA South America, and ADRA Bahia. ADRA Bahia also collaborated with two local organizations to provide a mobile clinic. “We hope to bring better conditions to these

  • Nobel Guardian Rules Out Peace Prize for Pope

    Oslo/Norway | 04.04.2005 | Religion + State
    by Alister Doyle A guardian of the Nobel Peace Prize April 3 ruled out a posthumous award to Pope John Paul and experts say the Pontiff's conservative moral teachings had probably prevented him from winning in liberal Scandinavia. For many Roman Catholics, the Pope's absence from the list of laureates is one of the biggest gaps in the history of the Prize, first awarded in 1901. Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi never won in what is often called the worst omission. Yet in Norway

  • U.N. Secretary-General Saddened By Death Of Pope John Paul II.

    New York, N.Y./USA | 04.04.2005 | Religion + State
    UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL SADDENED BY DEATH OF POPE JOHN PAUL II, SPIRITUAL GUIDE, TIRELESS ADVOCATE OF PEACE Following is the statement of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the death of Pope John Paul II, issued 2 April: I was deeply saddened by the death of Pope John Paul II. Quite apart from his role as a spiritual guide to more than a billion men, women and children, he was a tireless advocate of peace, a true pioneer in interfaith dialogue and a strong force for critical

  • Church President Opens 175th Mormon Conference

    Salt Lake City, Utah/USA | 03.04.2005 | International
    The president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) opened the church's 175th conference April 2, calling on members to "stand a little taller, lift our eyes and stretch our minds to a greater millennial mission." The words were the same Gordon B. Hinckley used a decade ago, just weeks after he was elevated to lead the Mormon Church on March 12, 1995. "You must be the judge of how far we have come in realizing the fulfilment of that invitation given 10 years ago," he

  • H.M. Queen Elisabeth II. Leads Tributes To Pope

    London/U.K. | 03.04.2005 | Religion + State
    Her Majesty The Queen led tributes to Pope John Paul II as she expressed her "deep sorrow" at his death. She praised his work in promoting global peace and goodwill as she led tributes from Britain. Buckingham Palace said in a statement: "The Queen has conveyed to the Holy See her deep sorrow on receiving the news of the death of his holiness Pope John Paul II. "Her majesty remembers the untiring efforts of Pope John Paul II in promoting peace and goodwill throughout the world. "The

  • Statements From U.S. Political Leaders On The Death Of Pope John Paul II:

    Washington D.C./USA | 03.04.2005 | Religion + State
    Former President Bill Clinton: "Hillary and I are deeply saddened by the passing of His Holiness Pope John Paul II. In speaking powerfully and eloquently for mercy and reconciliation to people divided by old hatreds and persecuted by abuse of power, the Holy Father was a beacon of light not just for Catholics, but for all people. In more than 170 visits to over 115 countries, from the Balkans to the Middle East, from Central Africa to Asia, he was tireless in his efforts to defend human rights

  • Obituary: Pope John Paul II

    London/U.K. | 03.04.2005 | Ecumenism
    Karol Wojtyla's election as Pope in 1978 stunned the Catholic world. Not one expert had tipped the 58-year-old bishop of Krakow for the top job. His stand against Poland's Communist regime had brought him respect. But he was not part of the Vatican "in-crowd" and, above all, he was the first non-Italian pope in more than 450 years. He went on to become one of the most familiar faces in the world. His papal odyssey covered more than 120 countries and he earned himself the reputation of an

  • President George W. Bush

    Washington D.C./USA | 03.04.2005 | Religion + State
    President's Statement on the Death of Pope John Paul II The Cross Hall THE PRESIDENT: Laura and I join people across the Earth in mourning the passing of Pope John Paul II. The Catholic Church has lost its shepherd, the world has lost a champion of human freedom, and a good and faithful servant of God has been called home. Pope John Paul II left the throne of St. Peter in the same way he ascended to it -- as a witness to the dignity of human life. In his native Poland, that witness lau

  • Pope John Paul II has died

    Rome/Italy | 02.04.2005 | Ecumenism
    Pope John Paul II died late on Saturday night, April 2, ending one of the longest and most influential pontificates in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. The Holy Father remained "extraordinarily serene" during his final illness, according to his spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls. He had suffered heart failure the previous evening while being treated for an infection of his urinary tract. As his condition deteriorated rapidly during the day on Friday and then Saturday, with his body wr

  • Geneva: Adventist Church Representative meets with Sri Lankan Ambassador

    Geneva/Switzerland | 02.04.2005 | Religious Liberty
    Following a request from Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, United Nations representative for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, to meet with H.E. Mrs. Sarala Fernando, Sri Lanka's ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, an audience was granted on March 31. [img id=392 align=right]In a private interview that lasted forty-five minutes, the Ambassador Mrs. Sarala Fernando dialogued on a number of issues, including the recent visit of Adventist church president Dr. Jan Paul

  • ADRA Responds to Indonesian Earthquake

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 01.04.2005 | ADRA
    The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is providing emergency relief to the survivors of the earthquake that rocked Indonesia’s Sumatra Island on March 28. ADRA International has pledged an initial $10,000 in disaster relief aid to those affected by the earthquake. This will be distributed in the form of non-food items such as tents and medical supplies. The earthquake struck the western coast of Sumatra Island at 11:09 p.m. (local time) Monday and registered 8.7 on the Richt

  • Papua New Guinea: Adventist Development Agency Leads Literacy Initiative

    Lae, Papua New Guinea | 30.03.2005 | ADRA
    An estimated 42 percent of males and 50 percent of females in Papua New Guinea (PNG) have no formal education. Only 56 percent of women over the age of 15 are literate. Around 50 percent of children of primary school age do not attend school. Statistics like this has led the Adventist Development and Relief Agency in that country to set up literacy programs in the Morobe, Central, Manus and Bougainville provinces. [img id=387 align=right]Volunteer village-based teachers or tutors use a simpl

  • Quake Hits Tsunami-devastated Nias Island

    Jakarta, Indonesia | 30.03.2005 | International
    Three months after the December 26, 2004, tsunami hit North Sumatra, Nias Island, with nearly 1 million residents, was devastated by an earthquake on March 28, March 28, with a magnitude of 8.7 on the Richter scale. The earthquake epicenter was 18.6 miles deep in the sea. The governor of North Sumatra said more than 1,000 people perished as of March 29. It further reported that 90 percent of the residents suffered the devastation and 80 percent of homes and buildings were destroyed at Gunung

  • Berlin Court Granted Jehovah's Witnesses Legal Status

    | 25.03.2005 | Religion + State
    A Berlin court ruled on March 24 that Jehovah's Witnesses are entitled to the same privileges enjoyed by Germany's major Roman Catholic and Protestant (Lutheran) churches, ending a 15-year legal fight about the group's public status. The administrative high court in the city-state of Berlin granted Jehovah's Witnesses the title of "a corporation under public law" with the right to collect taxes and construct buildings after rejecting the arguments of lawyers that they were not a lawful group

  • Portugal: Many Reached by New Media

    Lisbon, Portugal | 23.03.2005 | Bible
    The idea started with one person. Soon others joined in and now the "Mundo Biblico" (Bible World) CD-ROM is receiving acclaim on the Portuguese Christian scene, said Arthur Machado, communication director of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Portugal. Distributed free, the CD-ROM provides a Web link and includes a Bible text, Bible commentary, photographs of Bible-related places, as well as video materials about Bible lands, antiquity and culture. "It was a private initiative of Joao Mig

  • New Adventist School and Community Center in Madrid to be Model of Integration

    Madrid, Spain | 22.03.2005 | International
    Seventh-day Adventists in Madrid recently approached municipal authorities to establish a multi-faceted community project, which includes a church, a school and a community center in the Eastern part of the country's capital. "We asked for a piece of land to build a church project that would help integrate the immigrant groups which we are currently experiencing in our church," said Alberto Guaita, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Spain. "We received not only a warm welcome f

  • Adventist Church Support U.S. Workplace Religious Freedom Act

    Washington, District of Columbia/USA | 22.03.2005 | Religious Liberty
    The mainstream protestant Seventh-day Adventist Church last week joined with other U.S. faith groups to advocate for the rights of American workers to honour their faith and remain employed. At a March 17 news conference in the United States Capitol building, James Standish of the Seventh-day Adventist Church joined U.S. Senators Rick Santorum and John F. Kerry, Representatives Mark Souder, Carolyn McCarthy and Bobby Jindal, and a broad coalition of faith leaders to call for the passage of t

  • Turkmenistan: Adventist Church Services Permitted to Resume

    Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan | 22.03.2005 | Religious Liberty
    Five years and four months after it demolished a Seventh-day Adventist church building, the government of Turkmenistan has allowed the local congregation to hold a weekly worship service on Saturday (Sabbath). Church sources report that between 75 and 80 attended the event, including local city officials from Ashkhabad. "We were allowed to rent a [meeting] place and [it] will be available till the end of this year," Pavel Fedotov, who is also president of the Adventist Church in Turkmenistan

  • Adventist In Spain To Be a Voice of Tolerance, Understanding and Hope, Paulsen Exhorts Believers

    Madrid, Spain | 17.03.2005 | International
    APD Speaking to a gathering of nearly 3,000 members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Madrid, Spain, Pastor Jan Paulsen, president of the Adventist world church, expressed condolences and solidarity with the nation on the day when Spain observed the first anniversary of the terrorist attack in Madrid, March 11. "We will remember. We will remember," he said. "These days are ... are symbols of a trauma," he stated, referring to consequences of the attack, which killed 191 people and w

  • Adventist, Salvation Army Delegates Meet in Second Bilateral Dialogue

    Jackson's Point, Ontario, Canada | 17.03.2005 | Ecumenism
    A second round of bilateral talks between doctrinal experts from The Salvation Army and the Seventh-day Adventist Church were held March 7 to 10 in Jackson's Point, a town 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Representing the Adventist Church were Dr. Bert B. Beach of the Council on Inter-Church Relations; Dr. Niels-Erik Andreasen, president of Andrews University; Dr. Andrea Luxton, associate education director for the world church; Biblical Research Institute director

  • Christian Communicators Call For A New Covenant For Europe

    Strasbourg/France | 14.03.2005 | Media
    The Assembly of the European Region of the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) has called for a new social and moral covenant for Europe. "Openness to re-negotiating and sharing public communication space will be the first signs of this new covenant, and shared ownership and editorial decision-making its inevitable consequences", participants in the 10-13 March 2005 WACC Europe Assembly in Strasbourg, France said in their final statement. The estimated 50 Christian commu

  • ADRA Attends UN Commission on the Status of Women Session

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 11.03.2005 | ADRA
    In celebration of International Women’s Day, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International’s representative to the United Nations (UN) attended the 49th Session on the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW-49), also known as Beijing +10. The ministerial-level review meetings, held February 28 – March 4 in New York City, occurred on the tenth anniversary of the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing and five years after the twenty-third special session of the Gen

  • Baghdad: Truck Bomb Causes More Damage To Adventist Church

    Baghdad, Iraq | 10.03.2005 | International
    A suicide truck bomb, which rocked the centre of Baghdad March 8 (Tuesday morning), broke the two remaining stained glass windows of the Baghdad Seventh-day Adventist Church. The concussion from the blast also shattered the floor-to-ceiling window, which separates the parents' room from the worship hall inside the building. The blast occurred close to the Ministry of Agriculture, just 100 metres from the church compound, at around 6.30 am local time. There were no church members inside the build

  • Jamaica: Symposium Addresses Spectrum of Human Rights

    Mandeville, Jamaica | 08.03.2005 | Religious Liberty
    Suppressing religious freedom, a fundamental human right, can lead to violence and societal damage, said Jonathan Gallagher, United Nations liaison for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. "One of the most frequent destabilizing factors in society continues to be the abuse of religious rights," he noted. Gallagher spoke at a symposium on "Human Rights and the Administration of Justice," sponsored by the Jamaican Ministry of Justice and Northern Caribbean University (NCU), held on the NCU Campus

  • GC Session 2005: Adventist Youth, Young Adults Training For Community

    St. Louis, Missouri/USA | 04.03.2005 | International
    For 400 Seventh-day Adventist youth and young adults from around the world, evangelism is personal. This group will be in the streets of St. Louis, Missouri, June 29 through July 9, sharing the gospel with others at the same time that the Adventist world church will hold the General Conference Session 2005. The evangelism event, "Impact St. Louis," is an intense, two-week training and practicum using traditional and non-traditional methods of outreach, such as hosting a Christian café, learn

  • Adventist 2005 World Synod: 400 Reporters And Media Personnel Expected

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 04.03.2005 | International
    The 58th General Conference Session of the Seventh-day Adventist Church will bring an international flavour to St. Louis, Missouri, the heart of the United States of America. The gathering from June 29 to July 9 will be representative of the nearly 30 million-strong Adventist Christian World family from around the globe, and will meet under a theme of "Transformed in Christ." "We are expecting at least 400 reporters and media personnel to be accredited with our newsroom operation in St. Louis

  • Adventist World Church: St. Louis General Conference Session Anticipation Builds

    St. Louis, Missouri/USA | 01.03.2005 | International
    As of March 1 only 120 days remain before thousands gather at the America's Center in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. for the 58th General Conference Session of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Anticipation is building for the quinquennial event, which runs June 29 to July 9, 2005, organizers say. The St. Louis convocation marks the first time Adventists have held their worldwide gathering in the United States in 15 years. Daily attendance at the event is expected to average more than 10,000 peo

  • Germany and Switzerland: Reaching Young People With the Gospel Using High-Tech Tools

    Zurich/Switzerland | 01.03.2005 | Media
    As with nearly everything else in today's society, options are also available when it comes to learning more about God. Between October and December of 2004 an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 people in Switzerland and Germany were able to choose how they wanted to learn more about God. They did this by tuning in to the second Youth Satellite Evangelistic event orchestrated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The eight-night event, better known as "Link2Life," (L2L) allowed young people to physical

  • Adventist TV Evangelist Finley to Hold Ukraine Satellite Event, Will Chair Internet Evangelism Panel

    Kiev/Ukraine | 27.02.2005 | International
    Evangelist Mark Finley, one of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's most recognized television presenters, is ready for a month-long "It Is Written" public campaign that will broadcast from Kiev, Ukraine, globally via satellite. The Kiev broadcast, dubbed "ACTS 2005," will be held in the Ukrainian capital's International Centre of Culture and Arts, and will help bring down the curtain on one of the more audacious claims of former Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. Finley will speak from the

  • Members of the World Council of Churches

    Geneva/Switzerland | 25.02.2005 | Ecumenism
    Efforts to shape a new ecumenical vision, as well as confront the world's continuing crises, topped the agenda when the council's decision-making body met February 15-22 in Geneva, Switzerland. It was the committee's last gathering before the World Council of Churches' 9th Assembly, set for February 14-23, 2006, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Retooling the ecumenical vision for the new century is not only "a matter of structures" but also "a process of transformation," the Rev. Samuel Kobia, a Meth

  • Myanmar: Religious Liberty Affirmed as Christian Church Leaders Meet

    Rangoon, Myanmar | 23.02.2005 | Ecumenism
    For the first time since the once open nation of Burma entered a phase of martial law, renamed itself Myanmar, and turned away from significant contact with the world community, a conference of more than 40 leaders of the Christian community was held in Myanmar February 10 in Rangoon to express commitment to religious freedom and Christian solidarity. The meeting was propelled by the visit of John Graz, secretary-general of the Conference of Secretaries of the Christian World Communions (CWC)

  • Lebanon: Protestant Christians Wounded in Car Bomb Blast

    Beirut, Lebanon | 16.02.2005 | International
    Among the dozens injured in a February 14 car bombing that killed former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri was also a Protestant Politician. Basil Fleihan, the only Protestant deputy in the Lebanese Parliament has been seriously wounded in this car bomb attack, according to the European Baptist Federation (EBF). Basil Fleihan, former minister for economic affairs, was flown out for medical treatment, according to the director of the Baptist Lebanese Society for Schools and Social Development, Nabil

  • Native Peoples In North America Target Audience for Adventist Bible Course

    Vancouver, Washington/USA | 13.02.2005 | International
    For the first time, a Bible correspondence course has been created for Native people in North America, a group that numbers at least 5.5 million. Creating the "Native New Day Bible Correspondence Course" spanned an 11-year period. The editorial committee of five Native Americans researched each lesson, to ensure the content would be acceptable to all North American native tribes. The reading level, artwork and stories were carefully developed to have a strong appeal to Native people, accord

  • Wright Elected President Of Adventist Georgia-Cumberland Conference

    Calhoun, Georgia/USA | 11.02.2005 | International
    Dr. Edward (Ed) Wright has been chosen by a committee of the Georgia-Cumberland Conference of Seventh-day Adventists as the president. Dr. Ed Wright will serve the nearly 30,000 Seventh-day Adventists of the Georgia-Cumberland Conference, which includes Georgia, eastern Tennessee and Cherokee County in North Carolina. The decision was reached by the 45 members of the conference Executive Committee and the Standing Nominating Committee, which considered more than 40 names. These commit

  • Caribbean: Thousands Pledge to Avoid Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Harmful Substances

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 08.02.2005 | Health & Ethics
    The word "temperance" may bring to mind the 1920s prohibition era in the United States of America (USA) where the government instituted laws against the sale and consumption of alcohol, but for members of the Seventh-day Adventist church, the practice is still relevant today. Part of recognizing the addictive and general harmful nature of alcohol and smoking is signing a temperance pledge, church officials say. More than 4,500 people signed the pledge in the Caribbean during the last two wee

  • Adventist Mission Awareness Appeal to Boost Church in Tsunami Region

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 08.02.2005 | International
    A special live satellite broadcast on February 11 hosted by evangelist Mark Finley aims to strengthen the Seventh-day Adventist Church's mission of helping others in the tsunami-ravaged areas of South Asia, church officials say. "In producing this program, we wish to raise awareness of the post-tsunami needs and to help strengthen the Adventist Church in the regions affected by the tragedy so they can be more effective in helping their communities -- spiritually [and] physically," says Gary

  • Mexico: Adventist Pastor Receives National Communication Award

    Mexico City, Mexico | 06.02.2005 | Media
    An Adventist pastor was among 19 people awarded the "Microfono de Oro" (Golden Microphone Award) by Mexico’s National Association of Announcers (NAA) at the Center of Performing Arts Polanco, in Mexico City, Mexico, on January 25. [img id=345 align=right]Pastor Baruc Lagos, who is the communication director for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Inter-Oceanic Mexican Union, received the award for his contribution in organizing the First International Summit of Leaders and Communicators,

  • Salvation Army And World Methodist Council Meet Under Common Wesleyan Heritage

    Lake Junaluska, North Carolina/USA | 05.02.2005 | Ecumenism
    United in one Wesleyan heritage, members of the Salvation Army’s International Doctrine Council and representatives of the World Methodist Council (WMC) met at the Methodist Lake Junaluska campus in North Carolina, USA, in January 2005. The meeting is a follow-up of the last conversation two years earlier at the Salvation Army’s Sunbury Court in England. While the history of the two denominations and their common Wesleyan heritage was well appreciated, this time they focused both on their sim

  • ADRA Ghana Assists Farmers To Cultivate Citrus

    Aweregya/Ghana | 03.02.2005 | ADRA
    The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), a non-governmental development agency, with assistance from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is helping 4,000 farmers in 137 communities to cultivate about 2,500 hectares of citrus in the Eastern Region of Ghana. For the past 8 years this assistance was part of ADRA’s food security programme. According to Samuel Asante-Mensah, ADRA-Ghana Country Director, the objective of the programme, which has been extended t

  • ADRA Provides Food, Medicine To Flood Survivors In Guyana

    Georgetown/Guyana | 03.02.2005 | ADRA
    From January 21-30, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) responded with potable water, food, and medicine to survivors of flooding that occurred in Guyana throughout January 2004. Approximately 650 food hampers were distributed to flood survivors. Each hamper contained toilet paper, laundry soap, and a food supply to feed a family of four for one week. Included were staple food items such as drinking water, rice, beans, cooking oil, flour, noodles, salt, milk, sugar, and cereal.

  • Canadian Government Proposes Marriage Redefinition; Adventist Questions Clergy Protection

    Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | 03.02.2005 | Religious Liberty
    The February 2 introduction of Bill C-38, the "Civil Marriage Act," to the Canadian Parliament, by Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler has raised concerns for religious freedom of clergy, congregations and individuals across Canada, according to Barry W. Bussey, public affairs and religious liberty director for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada. The bill, which is expected to pass the federal Parliament before June, redefines marriage as "the lawful union of two persons to the ex

  • Nigeria: Visiting Speakers Aim to Strengthen Adventist Churches

    Abuja, Nigeria | 02.02.2005 | International
    A month-long evangelistic outreach in Northern Nigeria, recently in the news because of a religion-incited strife, will aim to communicate the Christian message to the local population while strengthening the faith of those already in the Adventist Church, an organizer said. "By three public evangelism campaigns and district meetings in two rural areas, [we want] to strengthen the churches and Christians who on occasion experience resistance -- even persecution -- in their sometimes hostile

  • Liberty Magazine, Adventist Voice Of Religious Freedom, Marks Centennial

    Washington D.C./USA | 02.02.2005 | International
    Demonstrating the power of print to mold opinions and promote human rights, "Liberty Magazine", the Seventh-day Adventist voice of religious freedom, marks 100 years of continuous publication this year. Liberty is designed to emphasize the separation of church and state, as well as to promote the rights of all to follow their conscience as they choose. Though at times these values seem to conflict, the publication has striven to reconcile them. "Religious freedom, and in turn the mission

  • Adventist Church: Massive Print Project Yields 14 Million Bible Lessons for Africa

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 02.02.2005 | International
    A flood of requests for Bible lessons in Africa has prompted a plan to print 14 million individual Bible lessons in five languages to help meet the demand. The massive print project was driven by an overwhelming response in Africa to Sow 1 Billion--a Seventh-day Adventist Church global effort to distribute 1,000 million invitations to study the Bible. Kurt Johnson, director of the "Voice of Prophecy Bible School" and Bible School coordinator for the Adventist World Church (General Conference

  • Young Fijian Gospel Singer Dolly Releases Second Gospel Album

    Suva, Fiji, | 30.01.2005 | International
    Young Gospel singing sensation Dolly Rabuka has launched her second album. Titled My Loving Father, the seven-year-old, who just started Class One has 12 songs on the album. Dolly's father, Viliame Rabuka, said the album was launched a week ago on Viti FM. "She is an asset to the family. Her singing has helped pay for her education," Mr Rabuka said. "We want to invest in her for the benefit of the family." Mr Rabuka said he wrote all the songs - two English and 10 Fijian Gospel songs a

  • UN Envoy To Sudan Appeals For Immediate Release of Three ADRA Aid Workers

    New York, N.Y.,/USA | 28.01.2005 | ADRA
    The Sudanese government has repeatedly violated its ceasefire agreement with rebels in Darfur by bombing villages across the region, aid agencies and peace monitors said January 27. The accusation came just days after the United Nations said renewed fighting in the region had killed at least 100 people and displaced more than 9,000. The latest reports from sources within aid agencies working in Sudan said the government had bombed the village of al-Malam in North Darfur state. The Africa

  • European Commission Worried About ADRA Aid Workers Abducted In Darfur

    Brussels, Belgium | 28.01.2005 | ADRA
    The European Commission voiced deep concern January 28 (Friday) about the fate of three aid workers abducted at gunpoint in a rebel-held area of Sudan's troubled Darfur region. The European Commission has urged the Government of Sudan to abide by its obligations regarding the protection of its own citizens. This includes actively disarming and prosecuting armed groups acting against civilians. The three Sudanese nationals, who worked for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

  • Internet Access - The Best Christmas Gift for the Adventist Church in Myanmar

    Dagon, Myanmar | 26.01.2005 | Media
    Staff at the headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Union of Myanmar (Burma) gathered on Christmas Eve to celebrate their best Christmas gift ever: equipment that would grant them access to the Internet, a major breakthrough for the church there. In Myanmar, a US $80 airmail subscription to a church magazine costs a pastor two months' salary, so getting the Myanmar Adventist Church connected to the Internet -- a U.S. $3,000 expense -- was very important, national church lead

  • ADRA Appeals for Release of Abducted Workers in Sudan

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 25.01.2005 | ADRA
    The Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA) is appealing for the release of three agency workers that were abducted at gunpoint along with ADRA project vehicles on December 16th, 2004, while travelling through the then rebel-controlled area of Labado on their way from Khartoum to West Darfur, Sudan. Travelling in a humanitarian convoy, the three workers were part of a larger ADRA well drilling team carrying equipment and supplies to rehabilitate 65 damaged and abandoned

  • Teddy Bears of Hope comes in cuddly packages

    Oshawa, Ontario, Canada | 25.01.2005 | ADRA
    Miss Canada International Nicole Kotrosky watched the tsunami drama unfold a world away and knew she had to help. The Vernon native watched as aid poured in to the tsunami-ravaged areas of Asia to provide food and medical relief, but she wondered about the emotional needs of the children affected by the disaster. According to the U.N. News Centre that catastrophic event claimed more than 165,000 lives, injured half a million people, left up to 5 million more in need of basic services and caused

  • Former WEA general secretary Gary Edmonds to head Churches Together (CT)

    Seattle, Washington/USA | 24.01.2005 | Ecumenism
    Churches Together (CT), an Evangelical joint venture of North American churches, announced today that Gary Edmonds has accepted the position of Executive Director of Churches Together starting February 1, 2005. Churches Together is mobilizing North American churches to partner with African churches on HIV/AIDS, and to fostering grass-roots, African church-based ministry to African communities, families and individuals infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Edmonds joins Churches Together (C

  • ADRA President Returns from Tsunami Disaster Sites in Sri Lanka, Thailand

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 21.01.2005 | ADRA
    Charles Sandefur, president of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International, returned this week from visiting tsunami-affected areas in Sri Lanka and Thailand. Traveling down the Sri Lankan coast via helicopter, Sandefur noted, “The devastation is incredible in its breadth. We flew over a hundred miles of coastline. Knowing each village held a tale of suffering magnified the enormity of this disaster.” Sandefur also visited a camp for internally displaced persons (IDP

  • General Secretary of World Evangelical Alliance to Resign in February

    Edmonds, WA, USA | 19.01.2005 | Ecumenism
    The General Secretary of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) announced his resignation from his post on January 17. Rev Gary Edmonds, who has been serving the alliance since 2002, is being testified by his colleagues and WEA partners for his tireless efforts in advancing the global evangelical movement. In accepting the resignation on behalf of the WEA’s International Council (IC), the chairman, Ndaba Mazabane, Durban, said to the Evangelical news agency "idea" based in Wetzlar (Germany), "

  • The Netherlands: Groningen Adventist Outreach Brings In Unchurched

    Groningen, The Netherlands | 19.01.2005 | International
    A different style of public outreach has brought in dozens of visitors, including many who do not regularly attend any church, to special Seventh-day Adventist services in Holland's largest Northern city. The approach so far has been to avoid mass media advertising -- some young people from the church gave out small pastries and an invitation in the centre of town -- and, instead, to concentrate on having members invite friends, neighbours, colleagues and family members. Rob de Raad, pas

  • Britain: Adventists Join in Protest of

    Watford, Hertfordshire, U.K. | 19.01.2005 | Health & Ethics
    Britain's 24,000 Seventh-day Adventists were among many in this nation of 60 million who saw little humor in a recent television portrayal of a controversy between Christ and Satan. Instead, they saw blasphemy. A British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) telecast of "Jerry Springer -- The Opera," taken from a hit musical stage play in London's West End, reportedly featured an obscenity-laden "shouting match" between a diaper-wearing actor portraying Jesus Christ and another portraying Satan. Su

  • Canada: Adventists Call for Prayer on Marriage Issue

    Oshawa, Ontario, Canada | 19.01.2005 | Health & Ethics
    "Our community needs to seek God's guidance on the issue of marriage," says Pastor Dan Jackson, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada. Jackson is calling on all Seventh-day Adventist churches across Canada to have a special day of prayer on January 29 (Saturday). "Canada is about to make a monumental decision on our cultural framework by redefining marriage to include any two persons," he said. This is a social experiment with unforeseen consequences that will affect our childr

  • HIV/AIDS Pandemic Spreads, Adventist Church in Africa Aims to Help

    Johannesburg, South Africa | 19.01.2005 | Health & Ethics
    The numbers are going up every minute -- literally -- for the roster of people contracting HIV/AIDS. Globally, 11 people contract HIV every minute and, every minute, six die from AIDS. Nearly 40 million worldwide are living with HIV/AIDS, according to the Adventist Development and Relief Agency's (ADRA) 2004 DVD "The Face of AIDS," and health experts believe it is likely to surpass the bubonic plague, the deadliest-ever pandemic, within the next 10 years. ADRA's statistics also estimate

  • ADRA Continues With Projects In North Korea: Renovated Hospitals Lead To Considerably Lower Infection Rate

    P’yonyang, DPRK (North Korea) | 14.01.2005 | ADRA
    Two of the three hospitals in the East of North Korea have started operation again after the renovation of the operating theatres and the maternity wards. The renovation in the third hospital will also be concluded soon. The rooms are now heated, have water and electricity supply and can be maintained aseptic. "Mostly, when we pay a control visit, the rooms are off limits due to surgery in progress. In the past the rooms were unutilized and empty and accessible by visitors," says Marcel Wagne

  • ADRA Up-Date On Asia Tsunami

    St. Albans, Hertfordshire, U.K., | 13.01.2005 | ADRA
    Three weeks after the Asia tsunami disaster, the death toll is now estimated over 159,000 (this figure is now anticipated to rise to over 189,000), with over 24,000 still missing. Some 2.2 million people have been displaced while over 1,026,000 are believed to be homeless. These figures are expected to increase. Relief efforts are still critical: Some populations in remote areas in Banda Aceh Province in Indonesia remain difficult to reach. Treating injuries from the tsunami and earthquake i

  • ADRA President Visits Sri Lanka Disaster Sites

    Colombo, Sri Lanka | 11.01.2005 | ADRA
    Charles Sandefur, president of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International is in Sri Lanka visiting sites affected by the devastating tsunami. Sandefur arrived with an airlift, provided by the humanitarian organization Heart to Heart International, that included 40 tons of medical supplies, water filtration systems, and drinking water to be distributed by ADRA. "The magnitude of the disaster is like nothing I've seen," said Sandefur, who got an aerial view of the destruc

  • Indonesia: Disaster Response Continues, Clinics to Open in Aceh

    Jakarta, Indonesia | 11.01.2005 | International
    As of January 5, the death toll in countries affected by the December tsunami in South Asia has gone beyond 155,000 with tens of thousands still missing. Indonesia suffered the most deaths, with fatalities surpassing 100,000. Hundreds of thousands of others have been severely affected physically, psychologically and through a loss of livelihood. Reports from the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Indonesia indicate that casualties in Banda Aceh, the capital of the province, reached at least 30,

  • Asia Tsunami Survivors Receive More Aid From ADRA

    Bangkok, Thailand | 07.01.2005 | ADRA
    In response to the deadly tsunami that struck parts of Asia, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency’s (ADRA) recent activities include the delivery of aid supplies in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and India and assisting in water-system repair efforts in a Thailand village. In the northern coastal region of Aceh Province, Indonesia, a medical team in Banda Aceh opened a field hospital in coordination with the provincial health department. The team transported five metric tons of medical supplie

  • Adventist World Church: Church President Says Each Tsunami Victim is

    Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 06.01.2005 | International
    "In the midst of this pain and suffering, these people are not forgotten by God. Each one is precious to Him," said Pastor Jan Paulsen, world president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, in a statement commenting on the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami that struck Southern Asia which he called "an unprecedented humanitarian disaster." "It is a tragedy on a scale that is difficult to comprehend," Pastor Paulsen said. "We see its continuing impact in the grief of those who mourn their loved ones; in t

  • India: Adventists Among Those Who Died, Suffered Loss in Tsunami; Aid Continues

    Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India | 06.01.2005 | International
    Nine Seventh-day Adventists -- three children and six adults -- are known to be among the fatalities in 20 congregations located around the Bay of Bengal, part of the South Asia region struck by a deadly tsunami on Dec. 26, 2004, church leaders report. Families in each of the 20 congregations suffered severe property and business losses as well. Aid is coming into the region from Adventist church members as well as the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA). While ADRA's relief is ta

  • Adventists In South Pacific Turn Grief Into Help

    Wahroonga, N.S.W.,/Australia | 05.01.2005 | International
    The Seventh-day Adventist church grieves for the people affected by the devastating effects of the tsunami tragedy. "Our hearts go out to the families, relatives and friends of those who died in this tragedy. We also think and pray for those who still wait for final word on their loved ones," says Pastor Laurie Evans, president of the Seventh-day Adventist church in the South Pacific. "But we are committed to turn our grief into practical help." The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (A

  • ADRA Increases Response to Tsunami Survivors

    Bangkok, Thailand | 04.01.2005 | ADRA
    The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) continues to provide aid to tsunami survivors in Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and India. ADRA Indonesia coordinated a team of medical experts from regional hospitals to provide medical services along the coast near Banda Aceh. Hospital tents will be established to deliver medical services. ADRA Indonesia has partnered with a local non-governmental organization (NG) and recruited local volunteers to provide assistance in the delivery of foo

  • ADRA Response To Asia Tsunami (Up-dated with Trans-European support)

    St. Albans, England | 04.01.2005 | ADRA
    Following the huge loss of lives and massive destruction of infrastructure by the Tsunami that hit many Asian countries on 26 December 2004, the people and governments of the region have struggled to cope with the physical devastation and sheer human loss. To date the total death toll may now be as high as 155,000 with tens of thousands still missing. The current confirmed death tolls are: Indonesia 94,081; Sri Lanka 30,196; India 9,479; Thailand 5,046; Somalia 142; Burma 53; Maldives 74; Malays

  • ADRA Intensifies Its Work in Asia

    Sydney, Australia | 02.01.2005 | ADRA
    "We are fortunate to already have an established working relationship with the countries affected by this terrible disaster," says David Jack, Chief Executive Officer for ADRA Australia. "This has helped our teams on the ground to assess the needs quickly and respond immediately. We have also been working closely with the Adventist hospitals in most of the affected countries to provide medical assistance for the injured." The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Australia is using

  • UN Secretary: Tsunami Recovery 'To Take Years'

    New York, N.Y/USA | 02.01.2005 | International
    Areas hit by the Asian tsunami could take up to 10 years to recover, the UN secretary general has warned. Kofi Annan spoke of the "sheer complexity" of the relief effort, which is spread across a dozen nations. Mr Annan will travel to Indonesia on 6 January to take part in a meeting of world leaders to discuss further aid. Aid supplies are piling up in regional warehouses but in some places heavy rain has provided an extra obstacle to delivering them to outlying areas. Survivors are still e
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