By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Ted N.C. Wilson)

I am earnestly appealing to Seventh-day Adventist church members, and others worldwide, to begin a strong, worldwide prayer initiative for our members and church organization in the central African country of Burundi, who are experiencing systematic religious liberty abuse by the government. For more than six months, the Burundi government has increasingly harassed and abused the Seventh-day Adventist Church by imprisoning, beating, and intimidating Seventh-day Adventist church leaders…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Ted N.C. Wilson)

The Seventh-day Adventist World Church President, Ted N.C. Wilson, has written a letter of appeal to the governor of the U.S. state of Tennessee, Bill Lee, asking for a stay of execution for Donnie Johnson. Johnson has been convicted of killing his wife and is set to be executed this week.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America has also asked for mercy, prayers for Johnson.
While in prison, Johnson became a Christian and was baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Below is…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Tor Tjeransen)

Christian Ødegård had barely heard about Seventh-day Adventists. However, while serving in the Norwegian armed forces he saw a war movie that made a huge impact on him. The film was Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge with the young Adventist paramedic, Desmond Doss, as the main character
The way Doss stood up for his Christian convictions really impressed the young Norwegian soldier. He was fascinated that the American soldier in the movie kept the Sabbath and was a vegetarian. Over lunch one day, his…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Vania Chew)

Partnering with a team of literature evangelists has proved beneficial for a church plant in Western Australia.
“We’ve been working with literature evangelists (LEs) for a couple of years now,” says Pastor Abby Aviles from Hope Spring Fellowship, an Adventist church plant in Kwinana. “I find their work inspiring. They are bringing the kingdom of God to people’s doorsteps.”
For the past couple of years, literature evangelists have assisted Pastor Aviles with prayer meetings, doorknocking and…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Kesia Andrade)

In recent years, technology has been getting more prevalent in our daily lives. It is everywhere – in our financial systems, culture, entertainment, economics, education, communication and even the religious environment. Because of this, the Adventist Church in South America is looking for the best way to apply it in other areas. The belief is that, over the years, technology will be so present, people will not remember what life was like without technological development.
“Technology alone has…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Ansel Oliver)

Leonard Bailey, MD, the renowned Loma Linda University Health surgeon who garnered international media attention in 1984 for transplanting a baboon’s heart into a human infant known as “Baby Fae,” the research from which spawned human-to-human infant heart transplants and other cardiac treatment breakthroughs, died today at the age of 76 following a battle with cancer.
Bailey’s pioneering and controversial procedure became one of 1984’s biggest news stories, drawing daily attention of national…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (T. Brooke Sample)

Devastation. Loss. Hope. The juxtaposition of miles of destruction beside yellow daffodils and blooming trees left a sense of irony hanging in the air. While much of the world has moved on from the destruction caused by the fire in and around Paradise, California, last November, the members of the community are still reeling from the trauma of losing their homes, their loved ones, and their livelihoods.
During the 2019 spring break, a group of 17 students, faculty, staff, and alumni from Walla…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Maranatha Volunteers International)

One year after breaking ground at the Khunti Seventh-day Adventist School in India, the large 12-classroom Elementary Education Center (EEC) on campus is complete. The school has an enrollment of 1,300 but is forced to turn away hundreds of children each year due to lack of space. Classrooms are crowded, elementary grades are scattered throughout campus, and there is no space large enough for the entire school to assemble. Deteriorating buildings are also a deterrent for existing and prospective…

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

Antonio is 21 years old and very brave. He goes five days a week to the crowded Tacumbu prison in Paraguay’s capital, Asunción, to give Bible studies to 11 inmates.
But Antonio wasn’t always so brave. He grew up with a violent father and didn’t own a pair of shoes until he was 13. He says it is a miracle that he only visits the prison and is not an inmate living there.
Some of Antonio’s earliest memories are being beaten by his father. His parents cleaned houses for a wealthy man and cared for…

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