May 2007 Archives
Jamaica: Adventist School Tops Thousands in Technology Competition Again
Charged with finding real world solutions to real world problems, students from Seventh-day Adventist-owned Northern Caribbean University (NCU) rose to the challenge for the second time. The group beat out 4,000 other registrants in the region's Microsoft Imagine Cup technology...May 29
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Papua New Guinea: Adventist Doctors Perform Life-saving Heart Surgeries ... For 21 years a team of doctors from Sydney Adventist Hospital in Sydney, Australia, have flown to different countries in the region performing life-saving cardiac operations. This year was no...May 29
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United States: Pioneering Cancer Treatment Center Named After Founder
After nearly 17 years and almost 12,000 successfully treated patients, the Proton Treatment Center at Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC), has been renamed for its developer Dr. James Slater. The LLUMC board made the decision on May 23 and...May 25
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South Africa: Grandmothers with HIV, AIDS Find Support in Churches
Young people are not the only ones living with HIV or AIDS. Yet when one thinks of the spread of HIV and AIDS, particularly in Africa, the image that usually comes to mind is that of young parents leaving behind...May 25
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United States: Adventist Woman Nominated as Brigadier General ...United States President George W. Bush has nominated Colonel Loree K. Sutton, a Seventh-day Adventist, for appointment to the grade of brigadier general. Colonel Sutton is commander of Carl R. Darnall Army...May 22
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Romania: SperantaTV Broadcasts Hope to Romanians Worldwide
Hope has come to the country of Romania in the form of SperantaTV, which offers 24/7 Seventh-day Adventist television programming. The channel broadcast its first program at the end of April and was officially launched on May 19. SperantaTV, which...May 22
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Nigeria: Adventist Church Applauds City Government Efforts To Sue Tobacco Companies
Following in the footsteps of other countries, the governments of two Nigerian cities, Lagos and Kano, have filed a lawsuit against tobacco companies operating in the country. The suit points out that even though tobacco companies have admitted to the...May 21
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North America: Senator Kerry Pushes for Religious Tolerance, Better Care of Environment
On a night dedicated to recognizing and upholding religious freedom for all, key speaker and United States Senator John Kerry rallied behind a bill designed to protect the rights of people of faith, including Sabbath-keepers, in the workplace. Kerry spoke...May 18
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World Church: 'Proclaiming God's Grace' is Next GC Session Theme
New Theme chosen by Session Theme CommitteeMay 17 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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Jamaica: Attacked Adventist Pastor in the 'Ministry of Reconciliation'
From a recovery room in Cornwall Regional Hospital, Seventh-day Adventist Pastor Egnal Grant said he has forgiven the attackers who shot him in the abdomen during an attempted robbery on Thursday evening, May 10. "My greatest joy will be to...May 17
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World Church: Youth Ministries Celebrates 100 Years, Plant Trees
With the planting of a tree on May 15, Seventh-day Adventist young people around the world celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Youth Ministries department. Several leaders of the Adventist world church and lay members gathered at the Washington Seventh-day...May 15
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United States: La Sierra SIFE Members Drink Up for Kalaala, Win SIFE Nationals
By simply drinking water students at Seventh-day Adventist-owned La Sierra University can help build classrooms, science labs and libraries for villagers in Kalaala, Ethiopia. As part of the global, nonprofit Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) organization, La Sierra University's SIFE...May 15
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Jamaica: Church Takes Parable of the Good Samaritan Literally
Hundreds of Kingston, Jamaica's homeless will soon benefit from the opening of the Good Samaritan Inn, which aims to provide food and clothing for the homeless in the island-nation's capital. Seventh-day Adventists in East Jamaica recently purchased the one-stop, drop-in...May 15
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Jamaica: Gunmen Shoot Adventist Pastor in Robbery Attempt
Gunmen shot a 49-year-old Seventh-day Adventist pastor and escaped after an unsuccessful robbery attempt in Jamaica on May 10. Local police are investigating the crime. Pastor Egnal Grant underwent four hours of surgery to abdominal gunshot wounds at the Cornwall...May 11
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World Church: Book Series Makes Adventist Beliefs Relevant for Kids
God is like an ... egg? The concept of the Trinity has stumped plenty of scholars and wrinkled the brow of many a Sabbath School teacher, so why would anyone try to explain how one God can be three to...May 11
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United States: Desmond Doss Sculpture Unveiled at Veterans Memorial Park
First immortalized when former United States' president, Harry Truman, presented him with the prestigious Congressional Medal of Honor, the late Cpl. Desmond T. Doss' story of faith and service lives on in Collegedale, Tennessee's Veterans Memorial Park. Doss, a Seventh-day...May 08
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Madagascar: Country's President Challenges Adventists to be 'Green'
"I have a vision for our country," Madagascar's president, Marc Ravalomanana, told some 30,000 Seventh-day Adventists gathered on May 5 for the opening day of an outreach effort in Mahamasina (Sacred) Stadium in Madagascar's capital. Referring to the effects of...May 08
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World Church: Voice of Local Church Key to Adventist Organization Model
Most church members are not overly concerned about church organization and structure. They'd rather learn how to live the Christian life. But Bertil Wiklander, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Trans-European region, and other church leaders say, "It...May 08
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From Convictions to Conversions, Adventist Judge Ministers to Prisoners
When 61-year-old Judge Crispin B. Bravo announced his early retirement to his Metropolitan Trial Court staff just before the end of 2006 he didn't know that 21 members of his legal staff, lawyers and other judges would sign a petition...May 08
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United Kingdom: Adventist Leader Defends Jesus at Debating Society ... On April 27, the debating hall at Durham University in Durham, England, was packed--not with theologians, philosophers and academics, but with young people. The topic of discussion? Whether Jesus really...May 08
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World Church: Faith and Science Council Meets, Embraces Adventist Belief in the Creator God
In the face of ever evolving theories of how the world began, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is saying 'we still believe in the six-day Biblical creation.' About two years ago the church's General Conference put together a team of Bible-believing...May 01
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United Kingdom: Arson Destroys Children's Room At Micklefield Church
Arsonists struck the Micklefield Seventh-day Adventist Church in High Wycombe on Saturday, April 21. The resulting fire destroyed the children's room at the back of the church and left the building temporarily unusable for worship. The fire was started in...May 01
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World Church: United Nations Wakes up to Religion
The United Nations (UN) is waking up to the role that religious organizations can play in meeting its goals--particularly in the area of social, development and peace issues."It's intriguing that the UN has finally discovered religion," said Jonathan Gallagher, UN...May 01
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