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Adventist Church recommends their staff and members not to travel to and from...

The Seventh-day Adventist Church's top health official urged Church staff and members not travel to and from countries in West Africa affected by the Ebola epidemic. This recommendation came on the day...

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U.S. Seventh-day Adventist Church Statement on Unrest in Ferguson, Mo.

The President of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America Daniel R. Jackson, issued the following statement in response to the ongoing unrest in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014: “As a...

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In India, Adventists seek inquiry after local members reconvert to Hinduism

Reconversion ceremony prompts fears that hardline Hindus are compelling people to switch faiths Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders have appealed to Indian authorities to investigate the possible...

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Nigeria Adventist leader says Boko Haram destroyed Adventist church

Terrorist group burned building in Northeast after Members fled A Seventh-day Adventist Church official in Northern Nigeria said the the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram destroyed an Adventist Church...

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Ebola deaths include 16 Adventists in West Africa

The Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa has claimed the lives of 16 Seventh-day Adventists, a church official announced October 11. “The people are suffering,” said James Golay, president...

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Adventist Pastor in Ukraine released after detention during 20 days

Sergei Litovchenko, pastor of the Horlivka Seventh-day Adventist Church in eastern Ukraine, has been released and is being reunited with his family after 20 days of detention. Local Adventist Church...

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News Agency APD Switzerland celebrates 40-year anniversary

End of November the congregational Adventist News Agency of Switzerland (Adventist Press Service / German: Adventistischer Pressedienst - APD) celebrated its 40th anniversary. The agency was founded in...

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Adventist Church Offers Condolences After Terrorist Attack in Paris

The church also thanks France for protecting religious freedom. The Seventh-day Adventist Church has sent condolences to France and praised its government for supporting religious freedom after an...

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Adventist Church Offers Condolences After Plane Crash in France

A Germanwings Airbus A320 plane carrying 150 people crashed March 24 in the foothills near Digne-les-Bains, in the Alpes de Haute Provence in southeastern France, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls...

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Francis is the first pope to visit a Waldensian Church

According to the two-day program of Pope Francis' visit to the Piedmont from 21 to 22 June, he will be the first pope to visit a church of the Waldenses in Turin/Italy, according to a media release by...

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Adventists Rush to Help After Deadly Quake Rocks Nepal

Seventh-day Adventist doctors and ADRA workers sprang to work in Nepal after a powerful earthquake killed more than 1,800 people on April 25. The Adventist Scheer Memorial Hospital in Banepa, 15...

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Seventh-day Adventists in North America Call for Peace in West Baltimore

In response to the growing number of demonstrations following the funeral of Freddy Gray who died tragically in Baltimore, Maryland, the Administration of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North...

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USA: Tornado Rips Through Train Carrying "Adventist World" - The Kansas storm...

Thousands of "Adventist World" magazine subscribers will have to wait a few weeks longer to receive their next issue after a tornado tore through a freight train carrying the magazines to the U.S....

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Statement on the Tragic Shooting in Charleston, South Carolina

The president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America, Daniel R. Jackson, issued the following statement on June 18, 2015 in response to shooting death of nine people at the Emanuel...

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Generational Change in Adventist Publishing House Switzerland

The General Assembly of the Adventist Publishing House in Switzerland met on September 8 and decided a generational change in the management. The Adventist Publishing House in Switzerland, founded in...

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Adventists in Germany publish statement on the current refugee situation

After a special conference on assistance to refugees, 22. September in Ostfildern/Germany, the leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Germany published a statement about the current refugee...

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President-elect of Fiji is an Adventist Christian

For the first time, a Seventh-day Adventist has been nominated president of the south pacific nation of Fiji. Major General Jioji Konousi Konrote, better known as George Konrote, has most recently been...

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Adventist Conference in Germany publishes declaration regarding ordination of...

The executive board of the Hansa-Conference, a regional church leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the German federal states of Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has...

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Adventist Church President Jan Paulsen speaks to Haitian Adventists: 'Don't...

In a statement aired on the Seventh-day Adventist Church's television station, the Hope Channel, church President Jan Paulsen urged Haitians to not lose courage in the aftermath of the earthquake....

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Adventist headquarters for UK, Ireland nears completion after fire

Administrative offices for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the United Kingdom and Ireland are nearing completion 14 months after a fire gutted previous headquarters. The final phase of rebuilding...

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