26 February 2020 | A selected committee of Indian Seventh-day Adventists from the Washington, DC, area met to follow up on their February 9 meeting, previously reported by Adventist Today. The committee was chosen to help members address widespread concern that the Southern Asia Division (SUD) church is being managed badly, including allegations of corruption […] Source: https://atoday.org/sud-group-crafts-proposals-for-transparency-property-management/
Does the Church Need to Apologize for Racism?
By Robbin Lewis | 26 February 2020 | It is an issue that is painfully visible, but still too hot to touch. Here we Adventists are in 2020, still separate. Our white churches still have white pastors, our black churches have black pastors. We even have separate administrative structures. Some believe, but rarely speak about, […] Source: https://atoday.org/separate-but-equal/
US Supreme Court Turns Away Adventist Religious Bias Claim
25 February 2020 | An appeal by an Adventist former Walgreens employee suing the pharmacy chain for religious bias was turned away by the U. S. Supreme Court this Monday. Lower courts had ruled that Darrell Patterson’s request never to work on Saturday placed undue hardship on Walgreens. Patterson was fired in 2011 for not […] Source: https://atoday.org/us-supreme-court-turns-away-adventist-religious-bias-claim/
Fat Tuesday
by Loren Seibold | 25 February (Shrove Tuesday) 2020 | “In the week immediately before Lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess his deeds and the confessor shall so shrive him as he then may hear by his deeds what he is to do in the way of penance.” —Ælfric of Eynsham, Ecclesiastical […] Source: https://atoday.org/shrove-tuesday/
Coronavirus Outbreak Forces Closure of Adventist Churches in Italy
24 February 2020 | Until further notice, the leadership of the Adventist Church in Italy has asked pastors in coronavirus-hit regions, especially in the north of the country, to cancel all church services and activities. The drastic action joins extreme measures taken across Italy to halt the rapid spread of the coronavirus. According to the […] Source: https://atoday.org/coronavirus-outbreak-forces-closure-of-adventist-churches-in-italy/
