May 21, 2013
A Hero of Mine
All of us can look back over our lives as educators and identify people who have been significant role models. One of those persons for me has been Huston Smith. Perhaps the most important American scholar of religions for five decades, Smith was born the son of Methodist missionaries in Dzang Dok, China, where he spent the first seventeen years of his life. Now ninety-three and confined to a chair in his assisted living apartment in Berkeley, California,...
Sustainable healthcare, medical schools set denomination apart, filmmaker Doblmeier says
May 21, 2013 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Elizabeth Lechleitner/ANN
A documentary exploring the philosophy and legacy of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s international health and humanitarian outreach is scheduled to air on Public Broadcasting Stations across the United States beginning in...
May 20, 2013
- Taiwan Church News
3194 Edition
May 13-19, 2013
Church Ministry NewsWashington State Senate resolution praises missionary Doris Brougham for her dedication to Taiwan
Reported by Chiou Kuo-rong
...
May 16, 2013
- United Church of Christ General Minister and President the Rev. Geoffrey A. Black is traveling across China for two weeks with the Rev. Sharon E. Watkins, general minister and president of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
May 13, 2013
- United Church of Christ General Minister and President the Rev. Geoffrey A. Black is traveling across China for two weeks with the Rev. Sharon E. Watkins, general minister and president of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
May 7, 2013
Biomass power plants in Chengdu to generate electricity
May 7, 2013 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
APD/ANN staff
The humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is moving forward with plans to construct biomass power plants in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in southwest China.
A source of renewable energy, biomass power plants convert organic waste into biogas...
- The Amity Foundation, a partner of UMCOR, is expanding its relief efforts to earthquake survivors in China’s Sichuan Province.
- Taiwan Church News
3192 Edition
April 29-May 5, 2013
Headline NewsChristian organization partners with film industry through new film on famine to raise support and feed the hungry
Reported by Chiu Kuo-rong
...
April 30, 2013
Trained youth were some of first on scene, rescued four survivors
Apr 30, 2013 Savar, Bangladesh
Benjamin Raksham/BAUM/ANN
Seventh-day Adventists were some of the first responders to a commercial factory building collapse in Savar, Bangladesh, that has captured international media attention and sparked debate over building standards.
...
April 29, 2013
La crisis venezolana ya cuenta con 9 muertos y 75 heridos. Si la situación empeora se corre el riesgo de mayores derramamientos de sangre. A la hora del cierre de este noticiero (viernes a las 11:25 AM hora del Este) la población está en vilo esperando noticias. Es significativo el aumento del número de rumores, uno de ellos es que hay “dos ejércitos” que se disputan entre bambalinas la cúpula del poder. Otro rumor es el temor a una mayor “cubanización” del conflicto que pudiera ser el...