Religious Liberty Advocates Wary of Europe’s Proposed Work-free Sundays
30 June 2011 Brussels, Belgium [APD/ANN] A new alliance promoting fair and balanced work conditions in Europe asked the European Union's Economic and Social Committee last week to declare Sunday a "work-free day" in its new working guidelines for member states. The European Sunday Alliance is a network of 65 civil society organizations, trade unions…
Read MoreRe-booting the Mission Spirit for Christ
27 June 2011 Kopaonik, Serbia [Igor Bosnic, tedNEWS] More than six hundred fifty members and pastors from Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia and Montenegro came together in the ski resort ‘Sunny Peaks’ on the mountain Kopaonik in Serbia, from 14-19 June 2011, to participate in a Mission Conference with the theme ‘In Action for Jesus’. The main…
Read MoreNew Middle East Studio: Sharing the Good News of Freedom
22 June 2011 Silver Spring, USA [Shelley Nolan Freesland, tedNEWS] This July, Adventist World Radio will begin broadcasting new shortwave programs in Arabic for four hours daily – morning and evening – to listeners countries such as Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Yemen, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. Arabic is spoken by more than 230 million people in the world.…
Read More250 Bibles: 10,000 Bible Studies
21 June 2011 St Albans, United Kingdom [tedNEWS] This week the Quiz28 website at www.quiz28.org, which is based on the 28 Fundamental Beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, clocked up its 10,000th completed Bible study. The average time taken to complete each online study is 15 minutes, which means that the site has engaged people…
Read MoreAl Waad Receives First Request for Baptism
14 June 2011 Beirut, Lebanon [Amir Ghali, tedNEWS] It was different from all the other reuests which Al Waad (Hope Channel North Africa/Middle East) usually receives. People often write in to request Bibles, or to enroll in a correspondence course, or to ask theological or general questions. This request was different. It was unusual. A…
Read MoreGet Ready for the Present – Invest in the Future
13 June 2011 St Albans, United Kingdon [John Sanches, tedNEWS] A new Master of Public Health in Lifestyle Medicine (MPH in Lifestyle Medicine) will be offered in 2012 by Loma Linda University as an “Off-Campus” programme at the Adventist University of France Adventist University (AUF) in Collonges-sous-Salève, France. This unique offer will target predominantly European…
Read MoreOne. Life. One. Jesus. One Gathering
Come join us this October for the first One project gathering in Europe, in partnership with the Finnish Union Conference and the Danish Union of Churches. Helsinki, Finland - Oct 31-Nov 1, 2011. The ONE Project is committed to the idea that a Jesus-driven, Jesus-bathed, Jesus-backed, Jesus-led, Jesus-filled, Jesus-powered, all-about-Jesus Adventist Church is the uncompromising…
Read MoreMiracle in the Desert
26 May 2011, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates [Clement Arkangelo, tedNEWS] For the first time in history the Seventh-day Adventist Church owns a building in the Gulf region. Some called it historic, but George Mathew, the Elder of Ras Al Khaimah Adventist Church, called it a miracle seeing the reorganization of the Gulf Section…
Read MoreAl Waad Leader Meets Prominent Muslim Figures in Jordan
19 May 2011 Amman, Jordan [Amir Ghali, tedNEWS] It was a historic visit. In an endeavor to meet Al Waad’s objective of being a Muslim friendly and a respectful TV channel, a team of professionals from the media center recently went to Amman, Jordan. There, they met prominent Muslim figures in the Jordanian community. The four-day…
Read MoreStatement on Violence Against Homosexuals
18 May 2011 Utrech, the Netherlands [Wim Altink, tedNEWS] The Executive Committee of the Netherlands Union of Seventh-day Adventists, on 17 May 2011 unanimously pronounced itself against violence towards homosexuals, which goes in harmony with the Statement on Human Relations by General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist Church World Headquarters*. Violence against homosexual men and women…
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