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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A television evangelist in rural Illinois hopes cable companies will pick up his Christian network.

The Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) church has sacked 16 pastors involved in sex scandals.

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.

Police: victims of sexual abuse at Adventist boarding school may have included girls

Adventist Church lawyer advised silence in 2002 about suspicions of abuse

Police investigate suspected child sexual abuse at Adventist Church boarding school

Youths apparently were in town selling books door-to-door

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