US Seventh-day Adventist Tribal Chairman, Brian Cladoosby, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community elected new NCAI president Tulsa, Oklahoma/USA | 30.10.2013 | International On October 18, a Seventh-day Adventist Tribal Chairman, Brian Cladoosby, of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, was elected president of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), at their 70th Annual Convention & Marketplace in Tulsa (Oklahoma/USA). Chairman Cladoosby is one of many tribal chairmen who are members of the Adventist Church. In his first statement after being sworn in as the 21st president of the NCAI Brian Cladoosby called for reduced thresholds for federal tribal d
Death Toll from Philippines Earthquake Rises to 222 - Sustained damage of Adventist properties Manila/Philippines | 30.10.2013 | International A hospital and several other properties owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in central Philippines sustained damage when a massive earthquake hit the island of Bohol last week. The 7.2-magnitude quake killed at least 222 people, injured hundreds more and reduced thousands of buildings to rubble and twisted metal. An estimated 500,000 families are displaced or affected, among them 14 Adventist families. More families, fearing powerful aftershocks, are living outside their homes in makesh
France: Adventists not involved in reported Exorcism incident Paris/France | 13.10.2013 | International Several News Agencies Mistakenly Identified Defandants as Members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church Four defendants on trial from October 7-11 in France for performing an alleged exorcism are not members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, as mistakenly reported by several news agencies. The defendants were arrested on charges of kidnapping, acts of torture and barbarism after French law enforcement officials discovered a teenage Cameroonian girl bound to a mattress in a southern suburb
