Christian protestors made national news headlines on Tuesday, January 9 when they demonstrated outside British Parliament against new regulations to protect gay rights. Since then, concerned citizens, among them Adventists, have petitioned their parliamentary representatives to vote against the impending measures.
Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Dominican Republic: Church Inaugurates Its First Adventist Hospital, United States: Florida Hospital, University of Central Florida, Debut Lifestyle Medicine Journal
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
The vandalism of a small Seventh-day Adventist village church in Serbia has caught the attention of the country's president, Boris Tadic. In his comments to the nation President Tadic said the January 8 incident was hooliganism and such acts must be stopped. The president also publicly requested that the police speed up the investigation and bring the perpetrators to justice.
Stapar, Serbia
Up until fairly recently the idea of mission in the Seventh-day Adventist Church was relatively simple to define. "Real" mission work involved church members from Western countries moving across the world to live among native groups for long periods of time with the hope of sharing the gospel and eventually baptizing people into the Adventist church. Today, there are literally hundreds of ways to become involved in mission work in the Adventist church independent of that traditional concept of cross-cultural mission work.
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
"I'm just proud to say we made it this far and ended on a good note. I have no regrets about pulling out," said Kaitlyn Serikaku, a team captain for Seventh-day Adventist-owned Loma Linda Academy's mock trial team. The team withdrew from the San Bernardino, California School District Mock Trial competition when semifinals fell on Saturday, or Sabbath, December 9.
Loma Linda, California, United States
You've got to really want to get there if you're going to make the trip. It's a long, winding road to get to the Jeypore Seventh-day Adventist school in Orissa, India, but once you arrive in the mountains of the Koraput District, you'll find a region steeped in tribal customs.
Jeypore, India
The Seventh-day Adventist community in Indonesia is praying that increased efforts will soon find passengers of the Adam Air KI 574 plane that went missing on New Year's Day. The plane, which left the main island of Java and headed to Manado, had 102 people on board, of whom nine were Adventists.
Manado, Indonesia
"Christianity has always been somewhat of a counter-culture, which means ministers deal with difficult issues as they relate to 'swimming against the stream,' so to say. It is no easy task for the leaders of Christian congregations," says Anthony Kent, who heads PREACH.
Cambridge, England