09.03.2010:
Four Seventh-day Adventist church members in Chile are confirmed dead in the wake of the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck the southern part of the South American nation on February 27, church officials have confirmed.
Two church headquarters have been severely damaged, while more than 10 places of worship have "been...
01.03.2010:
An 8.8-magnitude earthquake, one of the most powerful in recorded history, shook the South American country of Chile early Saturday morning, taking hundreds of lives and damaging public and Seventh-day Adventist Church infrastructure around the quake's epicenter, some 200 miles south of the capital, Santiago.
The church's...
23.02.2010:
Young Seventh-day Adventists should continue reaching out to peers and seek more active roles in church, the president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church said to church members during a live television broadcast earlier this month.
Jan Paulsen also told the group of young adults from the church's Inter-American...
18.02.2010:
Hundreds of thousands of Haitians still living under makeshift shelters face an increased risk of disease and poor sanitation in the coming rainy season, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) workers said.
The rains usually begin in May but could affect the region as early as March, the agency reported.
ADRA...
15.02.2010:
Mikhail P. Kulakov Sr., the first president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Euro-Asia region, and a pioneering Adventist leader who endured imprisonment in the former Soviet Union for his faith, died of brain cancer February 10 at his home in Highland, California. He was 83.
Once exiled as an enemy of the state,...
29.01.2010:
More than two weeks after the earthquake, relief agencies are fighting blocked roads and lack of centralized organization while attempting to distribute food and fresh water to Haitians around the capital of Port-au-Prince, workers said.
Tasks that would take a matter of hours under normal circumstances can take days, said...
27.01.2010:
Scholars and health professionals joined to celebrate Seventh-day Adventist world church President Jan Paulsen's life of service and 35 years of denominational leadership January 23.
The recognition, which came during Saturday morning worship services at Loma Linda University (LLU) Church, included special presentations and...
21.01.2010:
A strong aftershock struck near Port-au-Prince this morning causing heightened anxiety among the local population, including thousands of displaced survivors from last week’s disastrous earthquake who are receiving emergency assistance from the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), reported agency staff in...
19.01.2010:
A week after an earthquake leveled Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince, both aid workers and survivors are struggling -- the first to quickly distribute food and clean water and the other to get their share of emergency supplies.
Only 50 percent of Haiti's population has access to clean water under normal circumstances, but...
05.01.2010:
As Seventh-day Adventists worldwide gear up for a new decade, their church's president, Jan Paulsen, celebrates his 75th birthday, affording the veteran leader an opportunity to reflect on a different decade -- the nearly ten years he's spent at the helm of the 16-million member global Protestant denomination.
During those...