17 September 2021 | Ariel Henry, Haiti’s Prime Minister and the brother of Pastor Élie Henry, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America, has been banned from leaving Haiti amid an investigation into his alleged connection to the killing of the former president of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse on July 7. On Monday this week, […] Source: https://atoday.org/haitis-adventist-raised-prime-minister-banned-from-leaving-country-amid-murder-inquiry/

The online-only school was launched by the Education Department of the Western Russian Union. Classes are streamed from the Istok Christian School in Nizhny Novgorod. About 70 children and parents from Russia’s Kaliningrad to the Far East joined the live dedication of the school on September 1. From a Euro-Asia Division/ANN press release: On September […] Source: https://atoday.org/russian-adventists-launch-pioneering-online-only-school/

News reports from Loma Linda University Medical Center, Zambia, Australia, the South Pacific Division and Southwestern Adventist University: From a Loma Linda University Health Press Release: Physicians at Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) have completed 200 left atrial appendage closure procedures, more than any other healthcare institution across the Inland Empire. “It’s a sign […] Source: https://atoday.org/news-briefs-for-september-16-2021/

15 September 2021 | The Adventist Church in Jamaica is struggling with a vocal faction of the membership agitating against COVID vaccination. Jamaica’s The Gleaner reported this week that “conspiracy theories and anti-vaxxer sympathies are reportedly making inroads within the most populous denomination in Jamaica, chipping away at confidence in the national vaccination drive.” The […] Source: https://atoday.org/vaccination-rift-lands-adventist-denomination-in-jamaican-headlines/