Throughout Australia and New Zealand, Sanitarium Health Food Company has donated, so far in 2020, more than AU$1 million (about US$700,000) worth of food to help individuals and communities in need. Sanitarium in New Zealand is extending community support, including a new partnership with Kiwi Harvest. In early April, the first of 90 pallets of Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Seventh Day Adventists’
First Seventh-day Adventist church opened in Nauru
Thursday, May 25th, 2017
The first Seventh-day Adventist church in Nauru was officially opened on April 9 by Maveni Kaufononga, president of the Trans-Pacific Union Mission (TPUM) church region, based in Fiji, and Nauru Government Minister Shadlog Bernicke. Reagan Aliklik, the elder and landowner who donated the land for the church, shared a brief history of Adventism in the Read more
Angry locals demolish Seventh-day Adventist chruch
Friday, October 2nd, 2015
A recently build Seventh Day Adventist Church on Anuta Island, in the Temotu Province of Solomon Islands, has been demolished by angry locals. According to Pastor Irving Vagha, who holds the portfolios of Adventist Volunteer Services and Global Mission for SIM, Anuta’s Anglican priest together with a large group of supporters demolished the church. Anuta Read more
Adventists vote against ordaining women pastors
Tuesday, July 14th, 2015A world assembly of Seventh Day Adventists has voted not to allow their regional church bodies to ordain women pastors. At the church’s General Conference in Texas, the vote was 1381 to 977. The outcome was reportedly influenced by delegates from Africa and South America. Before the vote had been tallied, a spokesman said the Read more
Deal could net $100m for Seventh day Adventist’s Sanitarium
Friday, March 6th, 2015Food giant Sanitarium, the tax-exempt manufacturer of Weet-Bix and Marmite, is expected to reap significant financial returns from the sale of a United States-based drug developer’s intellectual property to a Nasdaq-listed pharmaceutical firm. The deal could net Asklepion Pharmaceuticals – reportedly controlled by Sanitarium’s shareholder, the Seventh day Adventist Church – more than $100 million Read more
A lone effort to re-establish Anglicanism on Pitcairn Island
Friday, August 1st, 2014
An American clergyman is seeking funding to re-establish an Anglican presence on Pitcairn Island. The St Helena Star in the United States reported that John Brantley, who claims to be an Anglican Rite Old Catholic priest, is hoping to get to Pitcairn. At present, the Seventh Day Adventist Church is the only form of organised Read more