September 2006 Archives
Australia: Adventist-owned Weet-Bix is Australia's Favorite Trademark
An iconic cereal born from the Seventh-day Adventist church's health message is Australia's favorite trademark for the 100 years that nation has been registering brand names.Weet-Bix, produced by church-owned Sanitarium Health Food Company in Berkeley Vale, New South Wales, was...…September 28
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World Church: New Adventist World Radio Studios Slated For Southeast Asia and Africa
Imagine living in a landlocked country where battling monsoons and crippling poverty, surviving on subsistence rice farming, and dealing with a serious lack of basic infrastructure is your daily reality.The country is Laos, where communism rules and a mere 1...…September 28
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China: HIV and AIDS Street Theater Educates Migrant Workers ... Migrant workers and other at-risk groups in Chifeng City, China, are learning about the devastating effects of HIV and AIDS through street theater performances. The Adventist Development and Relief Agency...…September 26
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ANN BOOK REVIEW: Adventist Chaplain's Life Story a Model for Many
In a world sometimes starved for tales of genuine achievement - with so many people becoming "famous" for being famous--From the Hood to the Hill, the life story of Seventh-day Adventist Pastor Barry C. Black is, indeed, as bestselling author...…September 26
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ANN Feature: Is the Adventist Stance on Noncombatancy Shifting?
Where have all the Desmond Dosses gone? Epitomizing the traditional position advocated by Seventh-day Adventists during wartime, Doss was a World War II United States Army medic who refused to carry a weapon, yet earned the Congressional Medal of Honor...…September 22
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Romania: Religious Liberty Festival Attendees Urged to Promote Freedom
"Religious liberty is, as I learned, a highly important issue but, for me it is primarily a gift of God's grace. It may be that we will not always have it; it may be that someday we will be called...…September 21
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France: Two Adventists Honored for Helping Jews During World War II
Today, the Alpine ski town of Collonges sous Saleve is known, to the outside world at least, as a ski resort and tourist destination, roughly 7.3 miles, or 11.8 kilometers, South of Geneva, Switzerland. But, during the Second World War,...…September 21
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United Kingdom: Lord Carey Urges End to Religious Violence
"We must deplore violence wherever it is found and especially deplore its association with religion," declared Lord Carey of Clifton, a former head of the Church of England, to an audience of 450 people at Adventist-owned Newbold College in the...…September 20
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World Church: Book Delivers Scholarships and Blessings
A book is changing the lives of women around the world. No, it's not from Oprah's Book Club. It's a book in which everyday women's experiences with God inspires those that read it. The book is not only inspiring women...…September 19
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Slovenia: Internet Outreach a Focus for Adventist Communicators Meeting
Some 50 Seventh-day Adventist communicators from across Europe, Israel, Cyprus and North America, met for a communication conference in Rogaska Slatina, Slovenia, from September 8 to 12. Experts from different fields of communication, including media and public relations, shared their...…September 19
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United States: Church Leaders Talk Faith & Science ... Nearly 40 Seventh-day Adventist church administrators and scholars recently met in Denver, Colorado to tackle the often tense relationship between science and religion. Hosted by the Geoscience Research Institute (GRI) and...…September 19
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Euro-Asia: Region's Adventist Pastors Meet In First-Ever Congress
An estimated 1,500 Seventh-day Adventist pastors from all over the church's Euro-Asia region gathered for a four-day congress where they were educated and challenged, church leaders say. It is believed to be the first time that such an event has...…September 19
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Mexico: Religious Liberty Thriving, Government Official Tells Adventist Leaders
Fourteen years after the nation allowed open registration for various religious communities, Mexico's freedom of religion is strong and growing, a national official told leaders at the Seventh-day Adventist world church headquarters September 13."To profess or exercise a religion is...…September 15
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Papua New Guinea: 27 Adventists Complete Milestone Family Ministry Program
Twenty-seven graduates at Pacific Adventist University (PAU), a Seventh-day Adventist-owned tertiary institution in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea are now certified in their school's Family Ministries certificate program, the first program of its kind offered within the Adventist educational system....…September 12
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North America: 2006 Adventist Mission Offerings Up 5 Percent
Giving to mission offerings from Seventh-day Adventists in North America is up more than 5 percent in the first six months of 2006, according to a mid-year report from the Treasurer's office at the Adventist Church's world headquarters. For the...…September 12
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Ecuador: ADRA Aides Survivors of Massive Volcanic Eruption ... The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) office in Ecuador is distributing emergency bedding, along with food kits containing staples like rice and sugar for 2,000 Ecuadorians living in Tungurahua, Chimborazo,...…September 12
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World Church: Adventist Representative Adds Voice to Global Concerns
Continuing concern for the deplorable living standards and threats of violence facing people in many parts of the world was expressed by Jonathan Gallagher, a Seventh-day Adventist representative from the world church's department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty (PARL),...…September 12
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World Church: Insight for Effective Bible Study
In the Seventh-day Adventist church one of the leadership's goals is to grow daily Bible study and prayer among its members from 50 percent to at least 65 percent. It may seem that the simplest way to find out what...…September 08
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World Church: Adventist Internet Experts Share Strategies For Global Evangelism
A passion to reach the world for Christ via the so-called "information superhighway" brought together some 100 Seventh-day Adventist technologists, pastors and lay members for four days of meetings at the Fourth Global Internet Evangelism Forum in San Diego, California,...…September 05
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World Church: Church Reaches Many Around the World Through Internet
A young attorney in Brazil is baptized as a Seventh-day Adventist Christian after finding out about the church online. In Indonesia, a predominantly Muslim nation, the Internet is reaching people with the Gospel message. Many in Poland are being exposed...…September 05
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Indonesia: Effort in Second-Largest City Nets 250 New Adventists
Baptizing 250 new Seventh-day Adventist church members anywhere is, of course, good news. But, in Surabaya, Indonesia's second largest city, with a population of around 3 million, church leaders say it's especially good news. The baptisms, local church leaders say,...…September 05
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Ghana: Nation's President Supports Adventist Education ... John Agyekum Kufuor, president of the Republic of Ghana, made good on a promise earlier this year to help fund expansions on the campus of Valley View University (VVU), a Seventh-day Adventist-owned tertiary...…September 05
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Lebanon: The Church in Recovery after 34-day Conflict
August 14 marked the beginning of the UN-brokered cease-fire in Lebanon, ending a fierce 34-day conflict which cost the lives of 1,287 Lebanese, mostly civilians, one third of whom were children under the age of 12. More than 4,000 people...…September 05
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