May 2005 Archives
India: Hit by Tsunami, Adventist Church Members Get Help Rebuilding Lives
Five months after a devastating tsunami struck the Eastern coast of India, hundreds of Seventh-day Adventist families are still recovering from the trauma, aided by donations from church members around the world. While the church's relief arm, the Adventist Development...May 31
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Theme Song for World Church Business Meeting 'Connects in an Inspirational Way'
While any song can inspire a whole spectrum of emotions, sacred music has a loftier goal. So does the theme song composed specifically for the upcoming quinquennial business meeting of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in St. Louis, Missouri this summer....May 31
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Peter Andras: Hungary's Oldest Adventist College Student
Peter Andras will be 69 years old when he walks across the stage in September to receive his bachelors degree in theology. The oldest Adventist College student in Hungary, Andras will graduate from the Adventist Theological Seminary (ATS). For the...May 31
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ADRA Inaugurates New Office in PhilippinesSilver Spring, Maryland ...[ADRA/ANN Staff] Staff members of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) have moved into a new office building in Silang, Philippines, about 22 miles from Manila, the capital. Leaders and representatives...May 31
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Peru: Finley Leads 'Caravan of Hope' Meetings in Fast-growing Area
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Peru is continuing its astronomical growth with a series of evangelism meetings in five of the country's major cities from May 23 to 28. The meetings, called "Caravan of Hope," will be led by Pastor...May 24
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Jamaica: Northern Caribbean University Students Win Regional Microsoft Competition
It's not as improbable as the Jamaican Olympic bobsledding team, but the success of four Northern Caribbean University (NCU) students may well be unique in their own way. The students, who are enrolled in the computer science program of the...May 24
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Australia: Woman's Four-year Detention Ends
A family from Papua New Guinea, who six months ago faced detention and deportation from Australia, is celebrating a reunion and the chance to remain in Australia. On April 29, Macarthur Adventist School in Macquarie Fields, Sydney, where two of...May 24
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Portugal: Adventist Junior Academy Celebrates 30 Years of Service
A commemorative event at the Colégio Adventista de Oliveira do Douro, (CAOD), the Seventh-day Adventist junior academy in Portugal, recognized three decades of service to the Adventist Church and the community. A book chronicling the school's history was also released...May 24
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Serbia: Food, Clothes, Supplies from ADRA Aid Flood Victims
In the midst of a tremendous flooding disaster, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) moved quickly to help residents of Jasa Tomic, in the Vojvodina province of Serbia, said Roy Richardson, the ADRA director in the Trans-European region.The village...May 19
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Bernadine Archer: 'God Doesn't Love the Sin, He Loves the Sinner'
Every day Bernadine Archer goes somewhere most of us would not willingly go. She enters a compound enclosed by three 12-foot chain link fences topped with coiled razor-ribbon wire, an electronic detection system and two gun towers. Archer, the only...May 17
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Serbia: Law May Discriminate Against Religions Not Approved by State
The basic human right of freedom of conscience may be under siege in Serbia, as the government is reportedly waiting for input from the Serbian Orthodox Church on a proposed new law detailing religious rights. A formerly public process is...May 17
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Rwanda: Church Can't 'Walk Away' From University, Paulsen Says
The Adventist University of Central Africa (AUCA) will soon be housed in a new 50-acre campus in Masoro, a Kigali neighborhood. Pastor Jan Paulsen, world president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, participated in a foundation-laying ceremony there May 12.The new...May 13
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Rwanda: Adventists Should Be Peacemakers, Good Citizens, Paulsen Says
The Seventh-day Adventist Church "must be known in the community and by the government as peacemakers and as good partners," Pastor Jan Paulsen declared in a May 9 address at Nyamirambo regional stadium, the start of a multi-day visit that...May 11
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Zambia: Adventist Church Centenary Draws Country's President, Predecessor
Returning to the mission station where Seventh-day Adventist Church work first began in Zambia a century ago, Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa joined church officials and members in noting the 100th anniversary on May 6. The following day, former President Kenneth...May 10
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Uganda: Pastor Paulsen, Pres. Museveni Meet; University Sabbath Resolution Pledged
Uganda President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni said his government will "see what we can do" to resolve Sabbath, or Saturday, scheduling conflicts faced by more than 300 Seventh-day Adventist students at the country's Makerere University, the nation's leading public tertiary school....May 10
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Church Opens New Regional Headquarters Building in Kenya
Some 28 months after it was organized as a new division, or trans-national region, of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the East-Central Africa Division's new headquarters complex in Mbagathi, a suburb of Nairobi, were officially opened on May 9 by Pastor...May 10
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North America: Adventist Reality TV Show to Explore Life's Origins
Continuing debate surrounding a centuries-old scientific question may not have the "reality" TV appeal of, for example, a wardrobe and lifestyle makeover, but two Seventh-day Adventist college students are out to change that: finding answers to life's biggest questions along...May 10
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Lesotho: Sewing Teaches Women with HIV/AIDS Self-Sufficiency
In a region where poverty and HIV/AIDS are inextricably linked, a recent workshop in Lesotho taught women sewing skills as a means of income generation. The "Workshop on Sewing for HIV Positive Women" is a small but significant step towards...May 10
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44 Youth Killed In Road Accident in ZambiaKawambwa, Zambia .... [Chanda Mwenya/ ANN] A fatal road accident killed 44 students of Kawambwa High School on April 8, near Kawambwa, Zambia. Among them were 18 Adventist youth.It was the last day...May 10
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Cameroon: Crash Claims Life of Local Church President
Seventh-day Adventist Church Pastor Celestin Rakotoarisoa Herimanana, 44, was killed May 4 in a bus crash while returning to Douala from Yaounde, the nation's capital. He is survived by his wife and two young sons.Pastor Herimanana, a native of Madagascar...May 05
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ANN Feature: Oakwood College Birder Makes History on a Wing and a Prayer
If, as the Biblical book of Hebrews declares, faith is "the evidence of things not seen," then Oakwood College professor Bobby Harrison is a man of deep faith.For 33 years, Harrison, an art and photography professor who runs the media...May 03
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Baltics: Paulsen Offers Encouragement During Visit
"I am happy to be here among you and see you as a part of God's worldwide family," declared Pastor Jan Paulsen, president of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church, in his first visit to Lithuania part of a two-nation visit...May 03
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Poland: Current World Situation, Church-State Relations Discussed
Poland's new status as a member of the European Union, and developments within the Seventh-day Adventist Church, were main topics of discussion between Aleksander Kwasniewski, president of the Republic of Poland, and Bert B. Beach, general secretary of the Church's...May 03
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Russia: AIDS Conference Gains Support From Christian Communities
With Russia's concern over the growth of AIDS an international conference was held in Moscow under the theme "State, Religious and Public Organizations in Solving the AIDS problem - Perspectives of Cooperation." It brought together representatives of state, religious and...May 03
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Belarus: Publishing and Education Breakthroughs
Considered a breakthrough for a protestant Christian denomination, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Belarus just released the first edition of a church magazine for public distribution. Adventists in Belarus have "lately experienced a number of achievements," said Valery Ivanov, communication...May 03
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Sri Lankan President, Prime Minister Attend ADRA Water Project Ceremony
Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumratunga Badaraneyaka and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksha attended the opening ceremony for a building project in Sri Lanka for which the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is providing water. ADRA will provide water to the...May 03
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A Marathon Reading of "Don Quixote" Draws Adventist ParticipationMarking the 400th anniversary of the publication of Miguel de Cervantes Saavadera's "Don Quixote," Julian Melgosa, Ph.D., president of the Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies, or AIIAS, in Cavite, Philippines, participated...May 03
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