World Radio Day 2016

In 1923 – just three years after the first radio broadcast in the United States – the first Seventh-day Adventist radio station was set up, at Emmanuel Missionary College in Michigan. By the 1930s, H.M.S. Richards Sr. had begun his pioneering radio work with The Voice of Prophecy, and over the next several decades, Adventists in a wide variety of countries embraced radio evangelism. To address the challenge of reaching people in the Communist countries of Eastern Europe, the church took a leap…

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Appeal Hearing Delayed for Jailed Pakistani Adventist After Lawyers Threatened

By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Bettina Krause/PARL)

Lawyers for a Seventh-day Adventist man, currently serving a life sentence under Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws, were reportedly threatened by gunmen last week while traveling to an appeals hearing in the High Court of Lahore. According to ACI Prensa news agency, the two lawyers were detained on the road between Kasur and Lahore by armed men, who warned of violence if the lawyers persisted in their defense of 31-year-old Sajjad Masih Gill. Masih, an Adventist Church member, was…

Source:: sda website

Appeal Hearing Delayed for Jailed Pakistani Adventist After Lawyers Threatened

By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Bettina Krause/PARL)

Lawyers for a Seventh-day Adventist man, currently serving a life sentence under Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws, were reportedly threatened by gunmen last week while traveling to an appeals hearing in the High Court of Lahore. According to ACI Prensa news agency, the two lawyers were detained on the road between Kasur and Lahore by armed men, who warned of violence if the lawyers persisted in their defense of 31-year-old Sajjad Masih Gill. Masih, an Adventist Church member, was…

Source:: sda website