Reto Mayer, President of the Swiss Bible Society, resigns Basel/Switzerland | 27.05.2019 | Switzerland Reto Mayer, President of the Swiss Bible Society (SB), resigned on 21 May, on the occasion of the SB General Assembly in Schaffhausen/Switzerland. Martin Vogler, SB Vice President, and Eva Thomi, SB Managing Director, thanked Mayer for his many years of commitment. Reto Mayer, Adventist pastor and financial expert, works in the European church administration of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (Inter-European Division EUD) in Bern/Switzerland. Mayer was elected to the Board of the Swiss Bible Society in 2003 and as President in 2013. Regula Tanner, SB Vice-President, takes over the presidency ad interim for one year.
Adventists in German-speaking Switzerland elected a new church leader Zurich/Switzerland | 14.03.2017 | Switzerland The Adventists in German-speaking Switzerland elected Pastor Stephan Sigg (51) as their new president at their delegation meeting in the Congress House in Zurich on 12 March. Sigg will take over the church leadership from Günther Maurer, who has held this function for two terms since 2009.
Generational Change in Adventist Publishing House Switzerland Zürich/Switzerland | 21.09.2015 | Switzerland The General Assembly of the Adventist Publishing House in Switzerland met on September 8 and decided a generational change in the management. The Adventist Publishing House in Switzerland, founded in 1929, publishes only literature in German but sells also products in French, Italian and English.
Seventh-day Adventist elected President of the Swiss Bible Society Aarau/Switzerland | 24.05.2013 | Switzerland On 24 May 2013 the meeting of the delegates of the Swiss Bible Society in Aarau elected unanimously Reto Mayer (Ittigen/BE) as new President and thanked outgoing President Protestant Pastor Jakob Bösch (Eschlikon/TG) who retired on his own accord after ten years of service. Reto Mayer served as member of the board of directors of the Swiss Bible Society for the past ten years and was its Vice-president when elected. The 52 year-old Reto Mayer, who started his career in the insurance industry
APD Season Greetings with a Special Prayer Basel | 23.12.2005 | Switzerland May the Peace and the Beauty of the Christmas Season Bring You Happiness Now and Throughout the coming New Year 2006. The colleagues from the Editorial office of the Adventist Press Service APD Basel/Switzerland CHRISTMAS PRAYER 2005 When the world was dark and the city was quiet, you came. You crept in beside us. And no-one knew. Only the few who dared to believe that God might do something different. Will you do the same this Christmas, Lord? Will you come into the
Refugees Baptized In Switzerland; Adventist Church Gains Notice For New International Congregations Berne, Switzerland | 19.08.2004 | Switzerland Many Christian denominations -- and congregations -- talk about diversity and the need to reach across cultural boundaries. In Switzerland, Seventh-day Adventists are living out such goals. Recently, in the town of Fribourg, Switzerland, 21 miles (34 km) southeast of Berne, two refugees -- an Iraqi and a Rwandan -- were baptized as members of the church. The local minister, Pastor Dominik Frikart, met the two, studied the Bible with them and accompanied them in their decision to follow Chris
World-first surgery: Swiss ophthalmologist pioneers new glaucoma treatment Lausanne/Switzerland | 26.01.2004 | Switzerland Swiss ophthalmologist André Mermoud and his team have performed, at the Ophthalmic Hospital Jules Gonin in Lausanne ,Switzerland, a world-first surgery for the treatment of glaucoma. It consists in implanting a tiny tube (diameter of 50 microns) behind the iris in order to eliminate the excessive pressure in the eye. The surgery, performed under local anesthesia, lasts about 30 minutes. Dr. Mermoud, a Seventh-day Adventist Christian, is Head of the Glaucoma Department of the University-based Oph
"Otto per mille": Campaigns of the Protestant Churches in Italy for tax share Rome/Italy | 29.06.2003 | Switzerland The relationship between church and state in Italy is governed by agreements with the single denominations (Intese) and with the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican in particular by the Concordat. State funding to the Catholic Church, guaranteed since 1929 with the Concordat signed between Mussolini and the Vatican and redesigned in 1985 through a system of a tax sharing in the proportion of 8/1000 ("otto per mille"), was extended to other religious bodies that have stipulated "Intese" with
Italy: Concerns for Religious Freedom Remain Rome/Italy | 29.06.2003 | Switzerland Pending amendments to a religious freedom bill being considered by Italy's parliament could impinge on religious freedom, say Seventh-day Adventists and other evangelical Christians. The bill, which is being considered by the parliament's Commission on Constitutional Affairs, would eliminate the words "recognized by everyone" when discussing religious freedom. By modifying language that was previously uniform and unambiguous within legislation, minority religious groups worry that the govern
Swiss Clinique La Ligniere Earns World Health Organization Designation Gland/Switzerland | 29.06.2003 | Switzerland On June 5, Clinique La Ligniere (Lake Geneva Sanatorium) received the "Health-Promoting Hospital" designation from the World Health Organization, a unit of the United Nations. A Seventh-day Adventist institution, the hospital is the first private Swiss hospital to obtain this recognition, and one of approximately 650 worldwide with this certification. "This recognition means that the hospital's unique mission is acknowledged and prepares the way for Clinique La Lignière to be a regional leade
