Adventist Church President Wilson offers message of condolence for Connecticut shooting victims, community Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 16.12.2012 | International Seventh-day Adventist Church World President Ted N. C. Wilson offered a message of condolence following a mass shooting at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut/USA. News agencies reported that a 20-year-old man shot to death 26 children and adults before taking his own life. "The tragic killing of young children and others in Connecticut fills us with great sympathy and enormous sadness,” Wilson said from Germany, where he is attending a youth meeting. “On behalf of the
Christmas Message 2012 from the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches Geneva/Switzerland | 04.12.2012 | Ecumenism [img id=2481 align=right]He will bring forth justice to the nations... … a bruised reed he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice. – Isaiah 42:1,3 What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. – John 1:3-5 (NRSV) The psalmist described the Word of God as a lamp to light our feet, to guide us on the path of life. In Holy