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

Tuesday afternoon’s much-anticipated discussion of possible discipline for church entities deemed not compliant with ordination votes and policies witnessed surprising turns as delegates to the Annual Council wrestled with competing values.
Multiple speakers underlined the contrasting importance of preserving church order while also acting with fairness toward church organizations whose constituents have voted for alternate approaches to voted positions on ordination.
On the floor were two…

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

Achieving parity in tithe contributed by world church divisions to the Adventist Church’s world headquarters dominated the Monday afternoon discussion of the delegates to the Fall 2019 General Conference Executive Committee meeting, called the Annual Council.
The term “parity in financial matters” describes a future scenario in which all thirteen Seventh-day Adventist world territories (called divisions) contribute the same base percentage of their tithe to the denomination’s global…

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

A document outlining recommendations resulting from the 2018 Annual Council Compliance Action was distributed to General Conference Executive Committee members today.
The 2018 decision was a continuation of the discussion from the 2017 Annual Council of the General Conference Executive Committee. The 2018 Annual Council vote outlined a process for addressing matters of non-compliance within the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The Executive Committee members will review and discuss the proposed…

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

Adventist Church treasurer Juan Prestol-Puesán began his financial report to the members of the Executive Committee attending the 2019 Annual Council in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, by giving “first and foremost” credit to God for His blessings.
“We wish to acknowledge our dependency on God for His continuous presence, guidance, and sustaining grace,” he said on October 14, 2019 as he reported on Adventist Church finances through September 30.
Prestol-Puesán said the church’s…

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

The Seventh-day Adventist Church and its international humanitarian agency, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), announced today a new global campaign, “Every Child. Everywhere. In School.” The joint campaign is an urgent call to leaders around the world that all children, regardless of race, age, nationality, gender, religion or origin, have a right to earn and complete an education, and that being in school is a recognition of the value and potential of each individual child.
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