15.09.2010:
Promoting tolerance and respect among faith groups depends on education, members of the International Religious Liberty Association's panel of experts said last week during the group's 12th annual meeting.
Government and institutional support of religious liberty, while important, is not enough, members agreed during...
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10.09.2010:
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is deeply dismayed by a non-denominational pastor's plan to burn copies of the Quran on September 11.
In a statement released today, Adventist world church President Ted N.C. Wilson said the so-called "Burn a Quran Day" is "directly contrary" to the belief that Christians ought to relate to...
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07.09.2010:
Lisa Beardsley wants to create value for the education consumer.
In business school she analyzed why people chose to pay $4 for a cup of coffee at Starbucks. She now takes that same analysis and applies it to Adventist education, examining why spenders would offer a premium for its values and mission.
For Beardsley, the...
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13.08.2010:
Marienhöhe Academy is one of the first schools within the state of Hesse, Germany, to receive an award for promoting good health. The certificate was awarded by Germany’s education minister, Ms. Dorothea Henzler to the academy’s director and staff in a festive ceremony on May 15, 2010.
Ms. Karen Nattrodt, a teacher at...
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06.08.2010:
On Saturday, June 12, 2010, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Piteşti, Romania, celebrated 130 years of the publishing work by the Adventist Church in Romania. During the ceremony the church reviewed the challenges of the mission in the city by launching the June issue of the Romanian Signs of the Times magazine (Semnele...
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28.07.2010:
The Stimme der Hoffnung Media Center in Alsbach, Germany, has successfully completed the development of the iPhone App (applications for iPhone and iPod Touch by Apple). An App is a program which can be installed on a mobile phone, making it possible for the iPhone and iPod owner to watch the Hope Channel programs anytime and...
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02.07.2010:
Euro-Africa Division delegates voted several new department leaders into office at a July 1 business meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Leaders and delegates are in Atlanta as part of the General Conference Session, which is the highest administrative body of the Seventh-day Adventist Church that selects church leaders and decides...
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30.06.2010:
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Euro-Africa faces a daunting mix of cultures, political systems and religions, but an Arabic television show and vibrant Health Ministries program are among initiatives spurring "consistent" growth in the region.
In Inter-America, 60 percent of Adventists are between the ages of 16 and...
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29.06.2010:
Brother and Sister Zens
Bruno R. Vertallier, 61, was re-elected as the Euro-Africa Division President June 28 by the delegates of the world church at their business session in Atlanta. Vertallier was appointed by the church’s 246-member Nominating Committee and confirmed by the General Conference Session delegation, which...
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28.06.2010:
Nine appointed vice presidents; associate secretaries, treasurers also elected.
The General Conference Nominating Committee selected 21 leaders for the Secretariat and Treasury departments on Sunday, all of which were approved unanimously by delegates meeting in the Georgia Dome at the Seventh-day Adventist denomination's...
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