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Lindani Mangena, 24, posed as a top City trader to con more than 1,000 Seventh Day Adventists.
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A Maryville woman who went to court on Aug. 14 for a child custody hearing says she was persecuted because of her religious beliefs at the hands of the Blount County judicial system.
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Lawyers for an executed inmate who objected to autopsy on religious grounds said Friday they were negotiating with state officials for a less invasive procedure.
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The body of a strangled toddler was found inside the baptismal basin of Seventh-day Atventist Church in southern Brazil, police and church officials said Monday.
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Two large Protestant sects in Ho Chi Minh City – the Vietnam Seventh-Day Adventist Church and the Vietnam Grace Baptist Church – have officially received certificates of religious practice.
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An 81-year-old Rwandan pastor jailed for 10 years for his part in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide has been released.
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The Seventh-day Adventist Church, which theologically is a cult of Christianity, has taken legal action against web sites run by former members.
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HOBBLECREEK CANYON - Lincoln Steed had one message for Seventh-day Adventists at their annual retreat here: "Watch out. True religious freedom is being threatened before your eyes."
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After Diedre Renee Forte was sent two years ago to a routine supervisory class at the Metro Police Department Training Academy, in which the class watched a video that led to Forte’s religious affiliation being identified, her 27-year career with the department changed dramatically.
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A church pastor called deputies to remove 16 congregants who refused to stop singing as he tried to begin his sermon, according to a sheriff's report.
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ST. LOUIS -- The Seventh-day Adventist Church elevated a woman Monday to a top leadership post for the first time in its history.
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ST. LOUIS - The 70-year-old leader of the Seventh-day Adventist Church was re-elected president Friday at the group's worldwide conference. Jan Paulsen was selected by a nominating committee of 196 delegates.
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A Seventh Day Adventist lay preacher has been fined P2,000 or two beasts by the Customary Court of Appeal for breaching a marriage promise. Edgar Mothudi was taken to court by the mother of his three children, Mmamarope Mafokate who demanded P16,000 or 16 heads of cattle.
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The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Monday upheld the sentencing of a father and son duo found guilty of genocide by the tribunal last year.
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In a society where young adherents often face challenges to their beliefs, the top world authorities of the Seventh-day Adventist Church have reaffirmed the faith's insistence that fidelity to the Bible requires belief in "a literal, recent, six-day creation," no matter what conventional science says.
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WILMINGTON -- A federal agency sued Perdue Farms Inc. on Monday, claiming the company discriminated against its Seventh-day Adventist employees by refusing to excuse them from Saturday shifts unless the workers produced written proof that they had been to church.
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ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - Pastor Pavel Fedotov was in church leading services when the bulldozers and wrecking balls showed up. Over the next week, they razed his house of worship as part of the authoritarian Turkmen government's crackdown on minority religions.
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The prosecutor in the appeal hearing of a pastor and his son convicted of genocide, Thursday, called on the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to mete out harsher punishment to the two.

Pastor Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, 79, the head of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) church in western Rwanda, and his son, Dr. Gerald Ntakirutimana, 46, were February 19, 2003, found guilty of genocide and sentenced to 10 and 25 years in jail respectively.

The doctor was also convicted on an extra count of crimes against humanity - murder - for actively participating in the massacres of Tutsis in Kibuye (western Rwanda), while his father was found to have ferried killers in his car to attack Tutsi refugees.

"The two were found by the trial chamber to have acted as co-perpetrators of the genocide and should therefore be found guilty of such," said Mathias Marcussen, one of the three members of the prosecution team who argued in favour of a stiffer sentence.

Marcussen asked the Tribunal to overturn the original trial chamber's decision, which absolved the accused of two counts of crimes against humanity - extermination and other inhumane acts.

He pointed out that the trial chamber had made a judicial error in not convicting the two of extermination in spite of the large number of victims in Bisesero hills and Mugonero.

The prosecution also dismissed the appellantâ??s defence of alibi as, mainly uncorroborated. Each of the accused had been charged with seven counts.

Pastor Ntakirutimana is represented by former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, while Gerald Ntakirutimana's defence is made up of David Jacobs and David Paccioco from Canada.

The trial opened in September 2001 and closed in August 2002.

The Appeals chamber is made up of Judge Theodor Meron from the USA (presiding), Judge Florence Mumba (Zambia), Judge Mehmet Guney (Turkey), Judge Wolfgang Schomburg (Germany) and Judge Ines Monica Weinberg de Roca from Argentina.
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Nkawie (Ash), March 13, GNA - An America-based Evangelist, Dr Dick Miller, has cautioned Christians to avoid being misled by what he described as strange doctrines and false Bible teachings by some self-proclaimed men of God.
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Suspicions of sexual abuse of children within the Seventh Day Adventist Church, which were raised last autumn, are not leading to the filing of criminal charges.
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Sunyani, March 3, GNA- The Board of Trustees of 12 branches of Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Brong Ahafo on Tuesday filed a writ at the High Court in Sunyani seeking the order of the court to declare as null and void their purported expulsion from the church. The respondents are the Board of Trustees and Mr. Frederick Kofi Agyei Baah, Executive Secretary, of the Mid-West Conference in Sunyani and Pastor Paul Osei Mensah, President of the Ghana Union Conference of the Church.
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The once peaceful church in the country, the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) church, is now embroiled in confusion and rancour, following the closure of 12 branches of the church in the Brong Ahafo Region.
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A television evangelist in rural Illinois hopes cable companies will pick up his Christian network.
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The Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) church has sacked 16 pastors involved in sex scandals.
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For four years, Jerry Rose has struggled through the loss of his beloved stepdaughter and the knowledge that his wife tried to have him murdered.
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1. Seventh-day Adventist Church takes legal action against ex-SDA websites
2. Vietnam: Protestant sects receive certificates of religious practice
3. Rwandan genocide pastor released
4. Seventh-day Adventist editor warns of threats to religious freedom
5. Pastor calls deputies to remove protesting singers
6. 27-year police vet claims religious discrimination
7. Lesser Autopsy Sought in Tennessee Execution
8. Body of toddler found inside baptismal basin in Brazil church
9. Woman Elected Seventh-Day Adventist Head
10. Mom’s religion dominates custody hearing

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