By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Seventh-day Adventist World Church)

On October 24, Burundi Union President, Lamec Barishinga, was arrested on his way to meetings at the East-Central African division offices in Nairobi, Kenya. This arrest is the latest in an escalating series of events between the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the government of Burundi.
Read more: Appeal from Seventh-day Adventist World Church President for urgent prayer
In May, through the Adventist News Network and the Adventist Review, Seventh-day Adventist world church president, Ted…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Becky St. Clair)

Any Adventist in any part of the world can tell you what Pathfinders and Adventurers are. These well-established groups serve what the church calls “junior youth,” or children ages 4-15, and those who are the leaders of these groups are known as Master Guides. But what about the youth ages 16 and over–the “senior youth?”
This is where Ambassadors (ages 16-21) and Young Adults (ages 22-30+) come in–all to be led by a relatively new group called the Senior Youth Leaders. SYL was presented…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Heather Jackson)

Loma Linda University Medical Center and Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital are recipients of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s 2019 Get With The Guidelines® — Resuscitation quality achievement awards, designating both facilities as exemplary in implementing high standards of resuscitation care.
Both entities took home four awards combined — one Silver and three Gold. Children’s Hospital received the Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award for the Pediatric…

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

Mary John Ijaa never realized that it could be so hard to find a church.
She grew up attending worship services in a major Christian denomination in what is now South Sudan. But she didn’t feel happy. She didn’t see any unity or love. So at the age of 16, she moved to another church.
At the new church, she noticed people competed fiercely to be deacons and elders. They argued constantly about who was in charge. She didn’t see any love, so she left after two years.
The next church seemed to be…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Reykjavik, Iceland)

Jump back just ten years and social media was mainly text based. Slowly photos came to prominence and now video is an indispensable element. Jump back even further and church magazines were text based. Today an article without a photo will not get published. Photos are essential. Yet sadly, while photos are crucial, not all photos are good.
To address this issue, a small group of photographers from Europe, North America and Iceland met together from 5-12 September 2019, at the Hlíðardalsskóli,…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Daniela Arrieta/IAD News Staff)

More than 400 Seventh-day Adventists and friends recently ran across parts of the coastal city of Santa Marta in North Colombia, during the annual race to promote healthy living under the church’s “Let’s Move to Live” and “I Want to Live Healthy” initiatives.
Adventist delegations and friends from cities across the coastal region gathered early on Sunday, Oct. 6, to do warm up exercises, promote health and invited onlookers to join the six-kilometer race. This is the third event by the church…

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

Editor’s Note: According to the East-Central Africa Division (ECD), this morning, October 24, Burundi Union President, Lamec Barishinga was arrested on his way to the ECD year-end meetings in Nairobi, Kenya. Below is a letter to the Adventist Church in Burundi from Seventh-day World Church President, Ted N.C. Wilson. ECD has issued a statement regarding the situation, which you can read here. For more information, and background on the situation in Burundi please see here and here.

Dear…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Robert Vacca)

On Wednesday 9 October, an international jury presented awards to the very best of over 1,700 submissions to the festival. This was the climax of the nine-day event as film makers from across the world gathered in the small mountain town of Madonna di Campiglio to commend the 2019 winners.
“The quality of the films this year was very high,” said the founder, Lia Beltrami, who now acts as spiritual advisor to the event. Winning entries came from as far away as Iran, China and Japan as well as…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Trisney Bocala, Southern Adventist University/NAD Office of Communication)

Southern Adventist University helped the Cuba Adventist Theological Seminary become one of the most technologically advanced colleges in the country by creating a distance education classroom with funds donated to the Collegedale Church of Seventh-day Adventists – allowing the seminary to offer three master’s degrees.
The school has been in need of additional Adventists academic professors. Since the Cuban government prohibits foreigners from entering the country to teach, the installation,…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Adventist News Network and Adventist Review)

Members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s top decision-making body deliberated over a period of two days during the 2019 Annual Council about a proposed Statement on the Biblical View of Unborn Life and Its Implications for Abortion. The document emerged in September from a longer period of study and discussion among Adventist theologians, medical experts, healthcare administrators, ethicists and Church administrators.
A previous article outlined the process followed by various committees…

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