Adventist Pastor in Ukraine released after 20 days of detention Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 17.10.2014 | International Sergei Litovchenko, pastor of the Horlivka Seventh-day Adventist Church in eastern Ukraine, has been released and is being reunited with his family after 20 days of detention. Local Adventist Church and family members would like to thank Adventists and others who have prayed for his freedom throughout the ordeal. “We are very happy to know that Pastor Litovchenko is in good health” said Garrett Caldwell, spokesman for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. “We must continue to work and pray fo
Ebola deaths include 16 Adventists in West Africa Silver Spring, MD/USA | 13.10.2014 | International The Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa has claimed the lives of 16 Seventh-day Adventists, a church official announced October 11. “The people are suffering,” said James Golay, president of the West Africa Union Mission, speaking from Liberia onto a video screen projected to hundreds of church leaders gathered at the denomination’s headquarters for the 2014 Annual Council. Golay would have attended the meeting, but stayed home. Global health organizations and church official
