The Seventh-day Adventist Church is co-leading a discussion about peacemaking at the United Nations, with a church leader telling a major symposium that peace means far more than just the absence of war. Ganoune Diop, director of public affairs and religious liberty for the Seventh-day Adventist world church, made his ...
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico | Libna Stevens/IAD The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for two of its higher education institutions stationed in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Top Inter-American Division (IAD) administrators and leaders took part breaking ground on Jan. 19, for a new three-story facility that will ...
President of the North Jamaica Conference, Pastor Karl Archer, strongly reiterated the great need for vigilance and care in dealing with children and in protecting them from all forms of abuse on Sunday January 22, 2017. Speaking at the Conference’s first of two Annual Conventions, Pastor Archer said, “The time ...
More than two hundred and thirty individuals were recognized and awarded with plaques and certificates for their service and contribution to the mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in East Jamaica Conference (EJC) at a special Lord Transform Me Membership Appreciation on January 15, 2017. The event was held at ...
Written by: Phillip E. L. Castell - Director, Communication, Public Affairs & Religious Liberty The first of four Conventions in East Jamaica Conference (EJC) for 2017 lived up to expectations by providing inspiration, information and motivation for members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in zone 1, gathered at the King’s ...
After serving as Assistant Communication Director at East Jamaica Conference (EJC) for just over three years, Mrs. Fabia Phillips-Lawrence accepted a call from Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Media Group to serve as Programmes Manager. The move took effect at the start of 2017 with Mrs. Phillips-Lawrence taking up her new ...
BERNARD DAVY, CARLOS FAYARD, AND PETER LANDLESS On September 5, 2014—in the presence of ministries-of-health leaders, ambassadors, administrators, and health professionals—the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva issued its first-ever comprehensive report on suicide.1 Its goal was to reduce the rate of suicide by 10 percent by 2020. The presenters’ ...
