By Marcos Blanco, editorial director, Asociación Casa Editora Sudamericana, the Argentinian Seventh-day Adventist publishing house in Buenos Aires
As an Argentinian and fellow countryman of the former archbishop of Buenos Aires, I had a hunch that Pope Francis would write history before long.
The pope is a charismatic leader who has fascinated Christians and nonbelievers alike. That is not coincidental. He is a ground-breaking pope in many ways. He is the first Latin American pope, the first Jesuit pope, the first non-European pope in more than 1,000 years, and the first to choose Francis as his papal name after St. Francis of Assisi, champion of the poor.
Francis’ out-of-the-box thinking has caused him to get more media coverage than the previous two popes together. In August, for example, he made it to the cover story of National Geographic magazine, and his nine @Pontifex Twitter accounts have more than 20 million followers.
More Than a Historic Visit
By Marcos Blanco, editorial director, Asociación Casa Editora Sudamericana, the Argentinian Seventh-day Adventist publishing house in Buenos Aires As an Argentinian and fellow countryman of the former archbishop of Buenos Aires, I had a hunch that Pope Francis would write history before long. The pope is a charismatic leader who has fascinated Christians and nonbelievers alike. That…
Read MoreAn unlikely alliance of global lawmakers call to end religious persecution
September 22, 2015 | Bettina Krause An extraordinarily diverse group of lawmakers from around the world met in New York City last week to call for greater global efforts to end religious persecution and repression. The “International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief” produced an unlikely alliance of political leaders. Among the more than…
Read More6 Biblical Lessons in Business Ethics From the General Motors Affair
General Motors agreed this week to pay $900 million in fines to settle U.S. government charges that it concealed an ignition-switch defect linked to at least 169 deaths. The car giant also set aside $575 million to settle a slew of civil lawsuits, bringing to $5.3 billion “the amount GM has spent on a problem…
Read MoreArmed Attackers Kill 7 Adventists in Cameroon
By Andrew McChesney, news editor, Adventist Review Seven Seventh-day Adventist believers have been killed in a nighttime attack in northern Cameroon, marking the most serious loss of life that the church has sustained since Boko Haram militants embarked on a violent campaign to establish a strict Muslim state in Africa about five years ago. Heavily…
Read MoreGSI holds back to school exercise
Written by: Contributed | Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Pastor H. Drysdale assists in distributing back to school supplies The Good Samaritan Inn extended its assistance to communities for a Back-to-School exercise where one hundred students received school supplies in a ceremony held on Wednesday, September 2, 2015. The ceremony was held at the Good…
Read MoreChurch demolished, Adventists threatened with exile
Anuta, Solomon Islands | Kent Kingston and Solomon Star A new Adventist church building in Solomon Islands has been demolished by angry locals and the small congregation ordered to leave their island by the end of the month. Anuta Island is an Anglican stronghold in Solomon Islands’ far eastern Temotu province. Local Adventist Selwyn Faramarama…
Read MoreThe church has divine command
MONTEGO BAY, St James – IN the face of mounting criticisms that the church remains silent on societal ills, Seventh-day Adventist pastor, Glen Samuels, has made it clear that the religious institution has the “divine command” to hit out against all wrongdoings. “We feel like ancient prophets and current spokespersons. We have a divine mandate…
Read MoreJCF Set to Benefit from Adventists Celebrations
By Nigel Coke, The 172 stations and 11 posts of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will benefit from a special ‘projects day’ activity to be undertaken by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jamaica as part of its 125 years of Adventism in Jamaica celebrations. The Church, which boast more than 730 congregations across the ‘length…
Read MoreNew Study Focuses on Stress and Ministry
BY STAFF ©2015 Baptist Press Though pastors are stressed about money and overwhelming ministry demands, only one percent abandon the pulpit each year, LifeWay Research finds. LifeWay Research surveyed 1,500 pastors of evangelical and historically black churches and found an estimated 13 percent of senior pastors in 2005 had left the pastorate 10 years later for…
Read More100 Days of Prayer Launched
by Nigel Coke The Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (JAMU) will have its Second Quinquennial Session at the Mandeville Seventh-day Adventist Church in Manchester from December 1-3, 2015. As part of the preparation for the Session, the Union, through the Ministry of Prayer has designated August 22 – December 3, 2015 as “100 Days…
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