{"id":425,"date":"2014-09-01T07:32:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T07:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/2014\/09\/01\/adventist-president-calls-for-december-1-day-of-prayer-fasting-to-support-falsely-accused-members\/"},"modified":"2014-09-01T07:32:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T07:32:28","slug":"adventist-president-calls-for-december-1-day-of-prayer-fasting-to-support-falsely-accused-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/adventist-president-calls-for-december-1-day-of-prayer-fasting-to-support-falsely-accused-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventist President Calls for December 1 Day of Prayer, Fasting to Support Falsely Accused Members"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>20 November 2012 [ANN staff, Adventist News Network<\/a>] Seventh-day Adventist world church President Ted N. C. Wilson today called for an International Day of Prayer and Fasting on December 1 to rally support for the release of two Adventists currently imprisoned<\/a> in the West African country of Togo.<\/p>\n

Wilson and top church executives who voted the emphasis day at a November 20 morning business meeting said the event will raise awareness of the plight of Antonio dos Anjos Monteiro, Sabbath School and Personal Ministries director for the church\u2019s Sahel Union Mission, headquartered in Lome; and Bruno Amah, an Adventist lay member and businessman in Lome.<\/p>\n

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Adventist lawyers and human rights activists have called for both men\u2019s release since they were detained in March for conspiracy to commit murder. A Togolese man implicated Monteiro and Amah as conspirators in an alleged blood trafficking network, but a police search of Monteiro\u2019s home and local church headquarters did not produce evidence. Since then, local authorities have recognized both men\u2019s innocence.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Diplomatic efforts to secure both men\u2019s release are expected to continue. Today church leaders established a working group to oversee efforts led by John Graz, director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty for the Adventist world church. Church leaders are enlisting the support of members worldwide to raise further awareness through a social media campaign to promote the December 1 Day of Prayer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are asking the entire world Seventh-day Adventist Church to join in prayer and fasting on December 1,\u201d Wilson said. The world church leader met with both men in prison earlier this month during a tour of West Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are falsely accused, innocent church members and we are pleading with the Lord for his intervention so that they can be reunited with their families and continue their work,\u201d he said. [ted<\/em>NEWS]<\/p>\n

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<\/a>20 November 2012 [ANN staff, Adventist News Network<\/a>] Seventh-day Adventist world church President Ted N. C. Wilson today called for an International Day of Prayer and Fasting on December 1 to rally support for the release of two Adventists currently imprisoned<\/a> in the West African country of Togo.<\/p>\n

Wilson and top church executives who voted the emphasis day at a November 20 morning business meeting said the event will raise awareness of the plight of Antonio dos Anjos Monteiro, Sabbath School and Personal Ministries director for the church\u2019s Sahel Union Mission, headquartered in Lome; and Bruno Amah, an Adventist lay member and businessman in Lome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1570,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discipleship-spiritual-growth","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}