After Debate, Annual Council Votes Statement on Church Polity
16 October 2012 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [Mark A. Kellner/Adventist Review, and Edwin Manuel Garcia/ANN] Following three hours of respectful study and discussion, leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist world church voted to approve a “Statement on Church Polity, Procedures and Resolution of Disagreements in the Light of Recent Union Actions on Ministerial Ordination” on…
Read MoreAdventist Church President Wilson Calls for Renewed Medical Mission in Cities
13 October 2012 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [Edwin Manuel Garcia, ANN] Speaking to a packed auditorium at General Conference headquarters during Sabbath morning worship of the 2012 Annual Council, President Ted N. C. Wilson implored world church leaders to focus their evangelism efforts on health ministry, while also urging them to help the denomination…
Read MoreDublin: City of Hope for 2014
11 October 2012 Banbridge, Northern Ireland [Weiers Coetser, BUC NEWS] Dublin will be the British Union Conference 'City of Hope' for 2014. The announcement was made by Pastors Ian Sweeney and David Neal at the Irish Mission Day of Fellowship in Drogheda on Sabbath, 6 October. This heralds the beginning of a three-year evangelistic drive…
Read MoreADRA Albania Launches Literacy and Integration Centre for Roma
08 October 2012 Fushe-Kruje, Albania [Lydia Weidner, tedNEWS] ADRA Albania has successfully launched the "Reflect! Act! Integrate" Training Centre in Fushe-Kruje, 25 km from Albania's capital, Tirana. Kindly sponsored by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Austria, the projects aims to combat illiteracy among the largely marginalised Roma populations.…
Read MoreNew Kid on the Block
05 October 2012 St. Albans, United Kingdom [Heather Haworth] 'Reflecting Jesus', a 32-lesson interactive Bible study series for teens and their parents, was launched at the TED Kids in Discipleship Refresher Weekend, 28 - 30 September. KID leaders from Croatia, Norway, Hungary, Poland, Netherlands, Scotland and England met at the Trans-European Division Headquarters of the…
Read More‘Faith Begins at Home’ – Family Ministry Seminars in the SEEUC
02 October 2012 Belgrade, Serbia [Marija Trajkovska, tedNEWS] The Department for Family Ministries in the South-East European Union Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SEEUC) dedicated the second week in September to the family and marriage renewal and enrichment. Thus a number of seminars were held throughout the SEEUC in the period from 07-15 September…
Read MoreAdventist Church Leaders Meet Albania’s Prime Minister
02 October 2012 Tirana, Albania [Julian Kastrati, tedNEWS] A delegation from the Adriatic Union Conference headed by its President, Pastor Branko Bistrovic, held a courtesy meeting with Albania's Prime Minister, Prof Dr Sali Berisha. In this visit, Pr. Bistrovic was accompanied by Pr. Sretko Kuburic, AUC Executive Secretary, Dr Dragutin Matak, representing the Religious Liberty…
Read MoreA Call for Media Muscle behind the Adventist Message
28 September 2012 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [Tor Tjeransen, tedNEWS] Seventh-day Adventist media experts from around the world recommend greater cooperation between media professionals to maximise effectiveness in communicating the gospel. A group of eighty Adventist media professionals from all regions of the world were called together at the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s world headquarters in…
Read MoreMission Conference in Montenegro
26 September 2012 Podgorica, Montenegro [Laszlo Gallusz, tedNEWS] The Adventist Mission department of South-East European Union Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SEEUC) has organised six regional weekend mission conferences in 2012 in cooperation with the local conferences with the last one being held on 8th and 9th September 2012 in Podgorica, Montenegro. This particular…
Read MoreIn Togo, Cape Verdean Adventist Pastor Imprisoned on Dubious Charges
27 September 2012 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [Elizabeth Lechleitner/ANN] Seventh-day Adventist lawyers and human rights advocates are calling for the immediate release of an Adventist pastor imprisoned in Togo on what they say are spurious charges. Antonio dos Anjos Monteiro was detained in March for conspiracy to commit murder after a Togolese man implicated him and…
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