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Jamaican Pastor Apologizes After Being Accused of Encouraging Violence Against Gays

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27 November 2018 | In a letter to the editor of Jamaica’s The Gleaner, Omar Oliphant, an Adventist pastor in the country, apologized for remarks that many interpreted as encouraging violence against members of the LGBT community. The LGBT advocacy website, 76Crimes, quoted Oliphant’s remarks during a recent speech at Adventist-owned Northern Caribbean University. In […]

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Youth Mentorship Clubs Launched by Adventist Church in Jamaica to Counter Appeal of Gangs

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10 August 2018 | Tent City Seventh-day Adventist Church in Portmore, St. Catherine, Jamaica has started mentorship clubs that seek to inspire adolescents to higher emotional, moral and spiritual development. Jamaica’s The Gleaner reported on August 10 that 35 youth had been inducted into the clubs, known as the Girls of Eloquence, Morals and Standards […]

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Teenage Adventist Survivor of Parkland Shooting Critiques Push to Arm Teachers

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22 July 2018 | In an interview with Jamaica’s The Gleaner, Samantha Grady, a 17-year-old survivor of the February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, critiqued the view held by some that teachers should be armed as a protective measure against school shootings. “They were actually thinking about that at my […]

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Adventists and Decriminalization: Notes from the Global North

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By Keisha McKenzie, October 12, 2017:       This conference seems to have produced an exciting if unsettling week for the church in Jamaica and reporters at the Gleaner and Observer. Articles published yesterday suggest that they are unclear about several facts so I’ll introduce myself this way: as the child of Jamaicans, one who graduated with […]

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Prominent Jamaican Newspaper Features Ex-Adventist Critiquing Organized Religion

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July 2, 2014:   Jamaica’s The Gleaner newspaper profiled an ex-Adventist and her arguments against organized religion in a July 1 article. The newspaper, founded in 1834, is one of the most prominent publishing platforms in the country. The article profiled Leanne Richards-Williams, a communications professional who grew up as a Christian and was a […]

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