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Covid 19 coronavirus: Northlands Nepalese community racked with worry for home country 14 May, 2021 05:00 PM 5 minutes to read Whangārei resident Padam Acharya has lost two friends to Covid in Nepal. Photo / Michael Cunningham Nepalese living in Northland are racked with worry as the Covid-19 crisis ravages their home country. Many of their family members have fled to remote villages to escape the turmoil in Kathmandu, which is in lockdown, and New Zealand charities in Nepal are urging Kiwis t...

2 Min Read Published on: 5 hours ago To better serve their local community, Hillview Seventh-day Adventist Church members relocated their Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) thrift shop from Tuggerah to larger premises in Morisset, New South Wales, Australia, in August 2020. Now they are closer to where volunteers live, allowing the shop to be a more effective community hub, managers said. Alongside providing affordable household and clothing items, the facility ...

2 Min Read Published on: 5 hours ago On March 19, 2021, a deadly fire broke out in a residential area of Kawit, Cavite, Philippines, which left approximately 80 percent of homes destroyed. About 1,079 individuals from 511 families were affected, and 450 survivors had their homes devastated by the fire, according to an initial damage report submitted by a local Adventist Community Services (ACS) team of the Cavite Mission. “Most fire-affected families sought temporary shel...

3 Min Read Published on: 1 day ago The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is preparing to airlift critical medical supplies and several oxygen generation systems to ease India’s coronavirus health crisis.  The humanitarian agency is partnering with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, including the Adventist Health Ministries department and Adventist Health International (AHI), to expand relief operations in the South Asian nation. “The Seventh-day Adventist C...

Minister of National Security commends Trinidad and Tobago as National Relief Collection Drive for St. Vincent and the Grenadines end Port of Spain:On Friday May 07, 2021 the Minister of National Security, the Honourable Fitzgerald Hinds MP, officially brought to a close the national collection drive that was launched on behalf of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG).  The collection drive was initiated by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. the Honourable Kei...

BVI reciprocate in time of SVG need A section of the items from the BVI. (Photo Credit: API SVG) Relief items, the result of a coordinated effort to mobilise support for volcano-ravaged St. Vincent and the Grenadines by a number of civic organisations in the British Virgin Islands, arrived here on Tuesday 27th April. The combined effort involved the Lions Club of Tortola on Tortola, the Valley Sound Lions Club on Virgin Gorda, the BVI Rotary Family, BVI Red Cross, the St. Vincent and the Gre...

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Minnesota Adventist Church Ministers to Protesters — and More News Shorts   April 28, 2021 In this week’s Adventist news round-up, the Kenyan Community Seventh-day Adventist Church, which lies ten miles from where Officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd last year, offers a safe space to protestors. Plus, more news from around the world. Minnesota Adventist Church Ministers to Protesters. Religion News Service reports that the Kenyan Community Seventh-day Adventist Church’s involvemen...

3 Min Read Published on: 2 days ago As La Soufrière continues to spew ash, hot gas, and hot lava across St. Vincent, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, along with the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) and church member volunteers, has begun providing food and clothing to hundreds who are staying in shelters across the island. More than 20,000 people have been displaced from their homes since the volcanic eruption began on April 9, 2021. “No one has escaped th...

3 Min Read Published on: 5 hours ago As La Soufrière continues to spew ash, hot gas, and hot lava across St. Vincent, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, along with the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) and church member volunteers, has begun providing food and clothing to hundreds who are staying in shelters across the island. More than 20,000 people have been displaced from their homes since the volcanic eruption began on April 9, 2021. “No one has escaped t...