“Guilt and Failure” - Statement of the Seventh-day Adventist Church regarding the outbreak of the First World War Lüneburg/Germany | 12.05.2014 | International The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Germany has published a statement pertaining to actions it took in the context of the outbreak of World War I. The Southern and Northern German Union Conferences of the Seventh-day Adventist church adopted the statement on April 6 and April 13, 2014 respectively, and published it the May edition of the Church magazine “Adventisten heute” (Adventist Today), under the title “Guilt and Failure”. The Presidents of both Conferences, Pastors Johannes Naether (Han