23.05.2013:
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [Ansel Oliver/ANN]. Employees of the Seventh-day Adventist Church headquarters building sang old, “progressive” hymns and heard remarks from top church leaders in a brief afternoon ceremony yesterday that marked the 150th anniversary of the denomination.[more]
21.05.2013:
Dubai, United Arab Emirates [Libna Stevens/IAD/ANN]. The redesign of the Seventh-day Adventist world church’s website, adventist.org – scheduled for launch in October – will offer major enhancements in style and information architecture, say church Communication leaders.[more]
20.05.2013:
Bern, Switzerland [CD EUDNews]. On this day (May 21) in 1863, at this time (6pm), the first General Conference Session convened in the Second Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan. The Session was chaired by Jotham Aldrich with Uriah Smith as secretary.
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19.05.2013:
Silver Spring, Maryland/USA [NAD]. Adventist Community Services Disaster Response (ACS DR) is responding to the devastating tornado outbreak that hit last night in the Granbury and Cleburne, Texas area. There were ten tornadoes that affected the area, some as strong as an F4 category, killing six people, and injuring dozens of others. Several...[more]
15.05.2013:
Bern, Switzerland [CD EUDNews]. The Sanitarium Health & Wellbeing Company is the trading name of two sister food companies (Australian Health and Nutrition Association Ltd and New Zealand Health Association Ltd). Both are wholly owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.[more]
15.05.2013:
Copenhagen, Denmark [ANN Staff; CD EUDNews]. Seventh-day Adventist church officials in Denmark voted this week to halt the ordination of all new ministers until the General Conference Session in July 2015.[more]
10.05.2013:
Biel, Switzerland [APD; CD EUDNews]. On May 4th, David Jennah, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Switzerland and Günther Maurer, president of the Swiss German Adventists, both opened the annual conference with the motto "Hope Unites". There were 1,200 present gathering in the Ice-Stadium in Biel.[more]
08.05.2013:
Bern, Switzerland [CD-EUDNews]. The First European Health Conference, held in Prague from April 29 to May 4, is already over. There were about 600 people coming from 40 different countries, mainly in Europe. The coordinators were satisfied to have reached the expectation of those present. “It was very helpful to be here” declared most of the...[more]
08.05.2013:
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [APD/ANN staff]. The humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is moving forward with plans to construct biomass power plants in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in southwest China.[more]
03.05.2013:
Bern, Switzerland [ADRA Switzerland; CD-EUDNews]. The conflict in Syria is persisting, and vulnerable people are still fleeing. Since the beginning of the Civil War, the number of dead is in the tens of thousands.[more]
