By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission)

A Seventh-day Adventist biology professor miraculously acquired prime land on the Galápagos Islands to open a field station for Loma Linda University students in the 1970s.
Nearly 50 years later, hundreds of people descended on the site to celebrate the opening of a landmark museum and research center where tourists and scientists alike can explore the origins of the earth with state-of-the-art technology.
The Origins Museum of Nature, located on the main Charles Darwin Avenue in Puerto Ayora,…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Ted N.C. Wilson, president, Seventh-day Adventist World Church)

As many people are fully aware, there is a very serious health situation affecting various parts of the globe in relation to the coronavirus COVID-19 illness. About 90,000 people have been diagnosed in about 65 countries worldwide with over 3,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19. This has caused increasing apprehension in travel, business, health care, in scheduling of meetings, and in general daily life. As many of you know, recently, I requested prayer for this unusual illness and am now…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Ted N.C. Wilson, president, Seventh-day Adventist World Church)

As many people are fully aware, there is a very serious health situation affecting various parts of the globe in relation to the coronavirus COVID-19 illness. About 90,000 people have been diagnosed in about 65 countries worldwide with over 3,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19. This has caused increasing apprehension in travel, business, health care, in scheduling of meetings, and in general daily life. As many of you know, recently, I requested prayer for this unusual illness and am now…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Todd McFarland, associate general counsel for the Office of General Counsel of the Seventh-day Adventist Church)

[Prior coverage of this case can be found here: “U.S. Department of Justice Urges Supreme Court to Hear Adventist’s Sabbath Accommodation Case;” “U.S. Supreme Court Asks Government to Express View on Church Member’s Case;” and“Adventist Pharmacy Workers’ Case_Likely to be Accepted by U.S. Supreme Court.”]
On Monday, February 24, 2020, a nearly nine-year journey came to an end when the Supreme Court declined to hear Patterson v. Walgreens. This case came out of Walgreens’ decision to terminate…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (CD-EUDNEWS)

On Saturday, 25 January the pastor of a local church congregation in Italy signed a joint declaration with other faith groups which, while focused on respectful dialogue among and between different religious denominations, contained some statements which run counter to Seventh-day Adventist principles regarding inter-church relations.
The administration of the Inter-European Division (EUD) disapproves the signing of the ecumenical charter, and reaffirms its position concerning the involvement…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (CD-EUDNEWS)

On Saturday, 25 January the pastor of a local church congregation in Italy signed a joint declaration with other faith groups which, while focused on respectful dialogue among and between different religious denominations, contained some statements which run counter to Seventh-day Adventist principles regarding inter-church relations.
The administration of the Inter-European Division (EUD) disapproves the signing of the ecumenical charter, and reaffirms its position concerning the involvement…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Tracey Bridcutt)

The long-running case between the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Fiji and the Fijian Government over Vatuvonu Adventist High School returns to court today (February 14).
The case will be heard by three judges in the Fiji Court of Appeal after the government launched an appeal against the judgement handed down by the High Court of Fiji on November 22, 2019. In its judgement, the High Court rejected an application by the Ministry of Education to take over management and control of Vatuvonu…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Libna Stevens, Inter-American Division)

In the aftermath of a series of earthquakes, which have forced more than 800 public schools to close, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Puerto Rico is offering free enrollment to its church-operated schools across the island.
“We are not sure when schools across the island will open again and we understand that it is important that students complete their school-year, so we are more than happy to offer free enrollment to our primary and secondary schools which have classroom space available,”…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Andrew McChesney)

If anyone in Malawi had never heard of Total Member Involvement, there was a good chance that they had learned about the Seventh-day Adventist initiative by the end of a whirlwind visit by church president Ted N.C. Wilson.
Wilson emphasized Total Member Involvement, or TMI, at a meeting with Malawi’s president, during talks with the mayor of Malawi’s national capital, and in a Sabbath sermon attended 40,000 people in the country’s largest stadium.
Thousands more Malawians heard about the…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (ADRA International)

To gain support for the Every Child Everywhere in School campaign, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency in the West Africa region has worked closely with the Adventist Church and community members to get word out about the petition. Since the campaign’s launch last year, nearly 100,000 signatures were collected in Ivory Coast, West Africa.
Word of the campaign spread to government officials, including Liberia’s Minister of Education Ansu D. Sonii, Sr., who praised the global cause. In a…

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