News reports from Australia, Jamaica, North American Division Public Affairs and Religious Liberty Department (PARL). War Zone Ganoune Diop, director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty for the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church, examines the deep religious conflict behind the Ukraine-Russia conflict on Saturday, June 25, 2022, from 6-7 p.m. ET, during the webinar “Divisions in […] Source: https://atoday.org/news-briefs-for-june-23-2022/

Sarah Lindsey called the “foremost preacher” in New York and western Pennsylvania who rescued that area’s conference. On August 9, 1871, she received a ministerial license from the New York and Pennsylvania Conference. She is recognized as the first woman to receive a ministerial license in Adventist history. Her photograph was recently discovered in the […] Source: https://atoday.org/coming-into-focus-photo-of-first-woman-licensed-as-adventist-minister-discovered/

Staff at Adventist-run mission Mona Mona discouraged Aboriginal culture, punished children for speaking their native language from 1913-1962. Australian Union Conference (AUC) has a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) for Indigenous people that was approved in May 2022. Now, other Adventist Indigenous schools trying to incorporate culture into curriculum. 21 June 2022 | The Adventist Church […] Source: https://atoday.org/under-repair-adventist-church-trying-to-connect-with-indigenous-people/