Adventist Missionary family among survivors of Congo plane crash Goma/Democratic Republic of the Congo | 22.04.2008 | International A Seventh-day Adventist missionary family survived a plane crash April 15, emerging from the wreckage just moments before it exploded. the 79 passengers aboard the plane survived, but Airline officials put the confirmed death toll so far at 21, and said he believed all were killed on the ground in the Birere market district struck by the airliner when it failed to lift off. Barry and Marybeth Mosier of Dodge Center, Minnesota (USA), and two of their young children were aboard a DC-9 passenger
ADRA provides Food and Shelter for Fire Survivors in Cambodia Phnom Penh/Cambodia | 20.04.2008 | ADRA Phnom Penh/Cambodia, 20.04.2008/APD After a fire completely destroyed 450 homes in an impoverished section of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on April 11, 2008, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) provided emergency food and shelter for 2,400 residents displaced by the disaster. Coordinating with the mayor’s office, ADRA Cambodia distributed rice, noodles, fish, salt, sugar, and vegetable oil to 520 families, or approximately 2,000 identified fire survivors, on April 12. On April
Adventist Missionary family among survivors of Congo plane crash Goma/Democratic Republic of the Congo | 18.04.2008 | International Seventh-day Adventist missionary family survived a plane crash April 15, emerging from the wreckage just moments before it exploded. the majority of the 79 passengers aboard the plane survived, but Airline officials put the confirmed death toll so far at 21, and said he believed all were killed on the ground in the Birere market district struck by the airliner when it failed to lift off Barry and Marybeth Mosier of Dodge Center, Minnesota (USA), and two of their young children were aboard a D
Cuba: Adventist Church allowed to use sports facilities; hundreds are baptized Santiago/Cuba | 17.04.2008 | International For the first time in the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Cuba, the Polivalento Stadium in Santiago was the venue for an evangelism crusade presented by Mark Finley, re-knowned evangelist, television speaker and vice president of the Adventist World Church. The series drew more than 2,500 people each night. At the crusade's conclusion the Adventist church was given permission to use the city's olympic size pool in Santiago to hold a baptismal ceremony, where 235 people were ba
Adventists join world faith, aid agency leaders against poverty Washington, D.C., /USA | 16.04.2008 | International US$1 billion in funds to empower women, girls committed; 'When you educate a girl, you educate a nation' Linking poverty to economically fettered women, world faith, aid agency and government representatives said April 13 that it's no coincidence an estimated 70 percent of the 1.2 billion people who subsist on just US$1 a day are women and girls. Reversing such troubling statistics is a "moral imperative," leaders agreed at the Women, Faith and Development Summit to End Global Poverty, a
Adventist Church to develop partnership with Pan American health organization Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 15.04.2008 | Health & Ethics The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is seeking to engage in partnerships with Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs), including the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Health Ministries, as part of their effort to connect with FBOs who deliver as much as 40 percent of health care in many developing nations. PAHO, the World Health Organization's regional office in North and South America, is based in Washington, D.C., and has scientific and technical experts at its headquarters, in its 27 country
Prominent Fijian and head of public institution passes away Tamavua/Fiji | 15.04.2008 | International Seventh-day Adventists on Fiji Islands are mourning the death of a prominent Adventist and head of a public institution who passed away last week in Fiji. Semi Tabakanalagi, 46, was the general manager of the Native Land Trust Board (NLTB). Native land, managed by NLTB, an independent body outside the control of government, comprises 87% of all the land in Fiji and was permanently deeded by the British Crown in the 1880’s. And at the time of his death, he was helping to find a resolution
U.S. President Bush Should Not Attend Opening Ceremony of Olympics Games Washington D.C./USA | 12.04.2008 | Religious Liberty The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) urges President George W. Bush not to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing this summer unless there is substantial improvement in respecting Tibetans' religious freedom, including by opening direct and concrete talks with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhists' spiritual leader. If the president does attend the opening or any of the Olympic games in Beijing, the Commission proposes that he first v
Kenyan Adventist Church oppose Government six-day workweek proposal Nairobi/Kenya | 10.04.2008 | unknow The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Kenya is criticizing a government six-day work week proposal that would require civil servants to work on Saturday, the biblical Sabbath and day of rest for more than 25 million Adventist Christians world-wide. Kenya's Minister of State for Public Service, Asman A. Kamama, introduced the proposal after a government team examined a new work model. Adventist Church leaders called on the government to suspend the proposal, saying requiring members employed
Zambia: Adventist Church leader dies of sudden illness Lusaka, Lusaka Province/Zambia | 09.04.2008 | International Seventh-day Adventists in Zambia are mourning the death of their country's church leader who passed away unexpectedly last week. Cornelius M. Matandiko, 48, who had served as the Adventist Church's executive director in the southern African nation since 2004, died after a short illness April 2 in Lusaka, a church spokesman said. Matandiko was also chancellor of Zambia Adventist University, a television evangelist for Voice of Prophecy and a member of the National Constitutional Conference
Salvation Army and African Instituted Churches welcomed at Forum on Bilateral Dialogues Breklum/Germany and Geneva/Switzerland | 01.04.2008 | Ecumenism Representatives from the Christian World Communions (CWCs) as well as from the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches (WCC) have participated at the Ninth Forum on Bilateral Dialogues in order to share information on recent bilateral consultations between churches and to discuss the vision of unity expressed in their ecumenical texts. For the first time, the 10-15 March meeting in Breklum, Germany included theologians from the Salvation Army and the African Instituted
