http://www.stanet.ch/apd/ APD - freikirchlicher Nachrichtendienst der Freikirche der Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten (STA) en 1997 - 2010 APD Schweiz, stanet.ch The Seventh-day Adventist Church of New Zealand is taking a public stand in support of initiatives to dismantle New Zealand's heavy drinking culture. The Church has specifically endorsed the 5+ Solution based on the WHO sponsored publication “Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity”. Paul Rankin, Health ... http://www.stanet.ch/apd/news/2678.html In his first address to employees at Seventh-day Adventist world church headquarters, newly elected church President Ted N. C. Wilson outlined July 28 a strategic plan for the denomination meant to spur a renewal of members' commitment to the church's mission. An emphasis ... http://www.stanet.ch/apd/news/2675.html The Rev. Munib A. Younan, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Jordan and the Holy Land, has been elected president of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) July 24 at the LWF Assembly in Stuttgart. The LWF comprises 145 member churches in 79 countries, representing ... http://www.stanet.ch/apd/news/2664.html Seventh-day Adventist world church President Ted N. C. Wilson affirmed that his church will maintain a cooperative relationship with China's officially recognized Protestant organizations, the China Christian Council (CCC) and the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM). ... http://www.stanet.ch/apd/news/2650.html Ted N. C. Wilson (60), a vice president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, was elected June 25 to serve to serve five-year term as president of the 16.3-million member global Protestant denomination. Wilson is the son of former General Conference president ... http://www.stanet.ch/apd/news/2644.html The Polish Adventist Church Christian Charity Services and the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA Poland) teams are supporting relief efforts to assist people affected by the worst flood in centuries that has brought havoc to some parts of Poland. Heavy rain has caused damage estimated ... http://www.stanet.ch/apd/news/2641.html Most church leaders in the United Kingdom dislike talking about the need to give money, according to a new survey on Christian giving. As a result, churchgoers are being given "an array of mixed messages" by ministers about the need to give. According to the report "Why Christians Give – ... http://www.stanet.ch/apd/news/2638.html A Seventh-day Adventist church in Atlanta (Georgia/USA) is growing quickly in a country where the rest of the denomination is growing slowly. While young adults are absent from many of the country's congregations, the Atlanta Berean Adventist Church has attracted and mobilized them, along with ... http://www.stanet.ch/apd/news/2631.html Inhalt: 70,000 Visitors Expected at 2010 Adventist World Synod in Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Countdown to Atlanta: How are Adventist church leaders elected? <br> Voting process at church; Adventist World Session 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia: 70,000 Seventh-day Adventist Visitors Expected; Critically acclaimed documentary film «The ADVENTISTS» to show at World Session; http://www.stanet.ch/apd/news/2628.html The World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) and the Reformed Ecumenical Council (REC) are coming together in a new union with 227 member churches representing more than 80 million Reformed Christians in 108 countries - the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC). The ... http://www.stanet.ch/apd/news/2627.html The Seventh-day Adventist Church contributed to the Centenary of the 1910 World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, 2 - 6 June. The event marked 100 years since the last Edinburgh World Missionary Conference, when more than 1,200 Christians representing numerous faiths and countries ... http://www.stanet.ch/apd/news/2625.html Officials of the southern Spanish city Baeza have honored the memory of the country's first Adventist missionary, one of several early 20th-century religious freedom and democracy martyrs whose graves were later desecrated. In 1914, Walter Bond, a missionary from the United States, died at age 35, ... http://www.stanet.ch/apd/news/2624.html Following the recent devastation caused by Tropical Storm Agatha that brought widespread flooding and landslides across Honduras and other parts of Central America, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) provided assistance to some of the most affected communities. Answering the call ... http://www.stanet.ch/apd/news/2620.html Leaders of the Christian World Communions and delegates from over 50 denominations have reaffirmed their commitment to witnessing to Christ during an international conference in Edinburgh to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the World Missionary Conference held in the Scottish capital in 1910. ... http://www.stanet.ch/apd/news/2617.html Renewal in the Spirit The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Pentecost letter to the Bishops, Clergy and Faithful of the Anglican Communion 1. ‘They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to talk in other languages as the Spirit enabled them to speak’ (Acts 2.4). At Pentecost, we celebrate the ... http://www.stanet.ch/apd/news/2604.html