Adventist 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…
Read MoreAdventist Church Launches Committee to Study Theology of Ordination
19 September 2012 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [Ansel Oliver, Mark A. Kellner, and Elizabeth Lechleitner/ANN] Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders yesterday voted to establish a Theology of Ordination Study Committee, with a goal of delivering a report to the 2014 Annual Council, a yearly meeting of world church administrators. Four committee sessions, each meeting for…
Read MoreRe-Opening of Keough House at Newbold College
12 September 2012 Bracknell, United Kingdom [Newbold College] On Sunday afternoon 2 September Dr Bertil Wiklander (Chairman, Newbold College Board of Governors) and Dr Philip Brown (Principal, Newbold College) unveiled a plaque to celebrate the much anticipated official re-opening of Keough House (Men’s Hall of Residence) on the Newbold College campus. Following this unveiling, a…
Read MoreHope for Healing in Hungary
30 August 2012 Pécel, Hungary [tedNEWS] On Wednesday 29th August 2012, leaders from the Christian Advent Community (KERAK), Hungarian Union Conference (HUC) and the Trans-European Division (TED) met at the headquarters of the Adventist Church in Pécel, Hungary. The meeting took place as a response to a request by Pastor János Cserbik, the newly elected…
Read MoreStatement on Women’s Ordination to the Pastoral Ministry
Presented at the TED European Pastors' Conference 25 August 2012 Rogaska Slatina, Slovenia [Bertil Wiklander, tedNEWS] The Trans-European Division is a division of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. It means that TED follows General Conference policy, except in cases where we request and are given permission to apply a variance to the common world-church…
Read More“Let us Make God Known in Europe”
25 August 2012, Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia [Victor Hulbert, tedNEWS] Five days, countless sermons, workshops and conversations. Has it made a difference? Are European pastors now more prepared for 'Making God known'? They were certainly positive about the five days of meetings, praising both the organisation and the varied content of the event. In the extreme heat of the…
Read More“Is there Bread in the House of Bread?”
Presented by Artur Stele 25 August 2012, Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia [Julian Hibbert , tedNEWS] A really good-sized crowd turned out to listen to Artur Stele, a General Conference vice-president, in spite of soaring Slovenian temperatures and a failing air-conditioning system in the auditorium. “What an awesome task we have, to make God known in post-modern, secular Europe,” were Artur…
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