First Adventist leadership development conference trains future church leaders Rogaska Slatina/Slovenia | 19.02.2008 | International Quality leadership will strengthen world church, vice president says Responding to the urging of church leaders around the world, the Seventh-day Adventist world church held its first leadership development conference in Slovenia from February 11 to 12. "Our church leaders see leadership development as one of the major issues that [our churches] will face in the immediate future," said Michael L. Ryan, facilitator for the meeting and a vice president for the world church. "Providing more
Liberal Christianity is dying, Russian Orthodox Bishop says Geneva/Switzerland, | 17.02.2008 | Ecumenism Russian Orthodox Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev, the Moscow Patriarchate’s representative to the European Institutions, said on February 15 that liberal Christianity is on its way to extinction. "Liberal Christianity will not survive long and political correctness within the Christian environment is destined to die," Hilarion said during the Central Committee meeting of the World Council of Churches (WCC) at Geneva, Switzerland. The Orthodox Bishop also criticized the words of the Anglican primat
Kenya: Adventist Relief Agency ADRA Continues Care for Violence-displaced Families Nairobi/Kenya | 15.02.2008 | ADRA ADRA Kenya launches three-month project to assist 24,000 people The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) continues working with its partners to expand its emergency response for those displaced or affected by the ongoing post-election violence in Nairobi and Kenya’s western provinces. With a three-month project launching mid-February, ADRA Kenya will further expand its assistance to 24,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs), providing essential supplies and services. The project co
Sabbath observance rooted in Africa, says Adventist historian Berrien Springs, Michigan/USA | 15.02.2008 | International Black History celebration at Adventist university highlights Christian history in Africa A study of Black history reveals that Christianity in Africa might more closely reflect an Adventist view of the seventh-day Sabbath than previously thought, according to one Adventist historian. Bertram Melbourne, an Adventist pastor and Interim Dean of U.S. based Howard University School of Divinity(Washington D.C.) said the Basotho tribe of 15th century southern Africa worshipped a God called Molimo
Adventist humanitarian organization ranked among most trusted charities Mahwah, New Jersey/USA | 15.02.2008 | ADRA Charity Navigator gives ADRA four stars three consecutive years For the third year in a row, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International has earned a coveted four-star rating from the largest independent evaluator of charities in the United States of America. Only nine percent of the more than 5,000 charitable organizations Charity Navigator evaluates annually to ensure a judicious use of donations have received at least three consecutive four-star ratings, a Charity N
Cameroon: Adventist students escape bus crash unharmed Yaoundé/Cameroon | 08.02.2008 | International Careless driver caused accident, students say Forty students at the Seventh-day Adventist College of Yaoundé, Cameroon escaped unharmed from a bus crash on February 6. The students, ages 10 to 15, were heading to the zoo as part of a series of youth week activities. According to the students the accident was caused by the driver's carelessness. They said he scolded them when they started singing "Unto Jesus I Surrender" and asked them to stop. When they would not, he put on loud, secular
Adventist Church president a guest on international television network show New York, N.Y./USA | 07.02.2008 | International Paulsen discusses church's history, growth on Bloomberg's Night Talk [img id=1148 align=right]Seventh-day Adventist world church president, Pastor Jan Paulsen, is scheduled to appear as a guest on the February 11 edition of Night Talk with Mike Schneider, a one-hour program airing on Bloomberg TV. This is the first time the church's president has granted an interview with a major international television network. "We've never, as a church, had the opportunity to present our face to the
Chad: Adventist leader urges peace, calls for prayers amid rebellion N'Djamena/Chad | 07.02.2008 | International 50,000 flee country; some seek refuge in churches A Seventh-day Adventist Church leader in North Cameroon called for peace and stability during an interview with state-run Cameroon Radio Television February 2 following a bloody rebel assault of the Chadian capital of N'djamena. Allah-Ridy Kone, president of the church for the region, also requested prayers and support from the international Adventist community for his native country. Weekend violence spurred at least 50,000 Chadians t
Doors close for Christian college at U.S. health institute Weimar, California/USA | 05.02.2008 | Health & Ethics Citing financial reasons, board members of Weimar Institute of Health & Education in Northern California announced in a statement last month that the self-supporting Christian college known internationally for its eight-step, 18-day NEWSTART health recovery and disease prevention program will close its doors on June 20. The NEWSTART program hinged on many of the healthy lifestyle principles -- including proper nutrition, exercise and temperance -- advocated by the Seventh-day Adventist Churc
Adventist financial officers to review church's appropriations Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 05.02.2008 | International For decades, history dictated how the Seventh-day Adventist Church's world headquarters divvies up funds among its now 13 world regions, or divisions. But for the five church officials on the newly created Appropriations Review Committee (ARC), "because that's how we've always done it" is no longer an adequate explanation. Beyond the "minor adjustments" that accompanied shifts in division boundaries over the years, the group estimates that Adventist church leaders last comprehensively review
