Mormon Church Joins the LGTB Movement

In major move, Mormon leaders call for statewide LGBT protections
Salt Lake City Tribune | January 30, 2015

Top leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints called Tuesday for passage of laws granting statewide protections against housing and employment discrimination for gay and lesbian Utahns — as long as those measures safeguard religious freedom.

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Apple to store your fingerprints in the cloud, ripe for hackers and NSA surveillance

Natural News | January 31, 2015

In the digital age, when governments including ours are increasingly concerned about waging the next war, in large part, via the Internet, Americans' constitutional right to privacy seems a quaint anachronism. Successive presidential administrations, as well as Congress, appear to have ceded complete control to the intelligence community when it comes to deciding not when, but if, such protections are even warranted, and all in the name of "national security."

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Black water coming out of faucets in California

ABC News | January 28, 2015

Very rarely are faucets worth videotaping, but the ones in Diane Morita's Gardena, California home are. Morita says her tap water has turned black all throughout her house, toilets and all, several times this month. The water, she says, also smells.

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A Call to Jail anti-vaccination parents

USA Today | January 28, 2015

The entirely preventable California measles outbreak has now sickened more than 70 people. With perhaps hundreds more exposed, the outbreak will likely continue.

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Sixty thousand fish killed as pollution hits a five mile stretch of the Grand Union Canal

Leicester Mercury | January 28, 2015

Up to 60,000 fish have died in a massive pollution incident on a five mile stretch of the Grand Union Canal. They were poisoned by a suspected leak of farm slurry from waterside land somewhere between Kilby Bridge and Kibworth.

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This Man Will go to Jail for 6 Months if He Doesn't Remove a Windmill from his Own Property

The Free Thought Project | January 22, 2015

Over the past year, we have been following the story of a Minnesota man named Jay Nygard, who is routinely risking jail time because he refuses to remove a wind turbine from his property. Nygard has been in and out of court over the years, and despite a short-lived victory back in October, he is now risking jail time again, and facing an ultimatum from the city yet again.

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Scientists use skin cells to create artificial sperm and eggs

The Guardian | December 24, 2014

Scientists have made primitive forms of artificial sperm and eggs in a medical feat that could transform the understanding of age-related diseases and fertility problems.

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Adventists Partner with leaders of other Faiths

A banquet was held Dec. 14, 2014, at the Yale Seventh Day Adventist Church: from left, the Rev. Dr. Jon Veal, pastor, New Center Star Baptist Church, Yale, Va.; the Rev. Dr. Carol W. Robb, pastor, Hunting Quarter Baptist Church, Stony Creek, Va., and chairman of the Faith Based Coalition of Pastors and Leaders of Sussex County; the Rev. Dan Thomas, elder, Yale Seventh Day Adventist Church, Yale, Va.; the Rev. Danny Tucker Sr., pastor, Jerusalem Baptist Church, Jarratt, Va.; the Rev. Dr. Willie Derr, pastor, Calvary Baptist Church, Yale, Va.; Laura Dunam, Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore; the Rev. Rick Shull, elder, Yale Seventh Day Adventist Church, Yale, Va.; and Kevin Bracey, business owner, Stony Creek, Va.

The Progress Index | January 3, 2015

Yale Seventh Day Adventist partners with Faith Based Coalition of Pastors and Leaders of Sussex County to feed the community

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Adventist Pastors Grilled Over Death of Worshipers

January 6, 2014

Police detectives have interrogated two Seventh Day Adventist Church pastors in Burera District, Northern Province, in connection with the death on New Year's Day, of four worshipers.

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Church revolt over bid to end free Sunday parking

Edinburgh News | January 10, 2014

CHURCH leaders will urge parishioners to revolt against plans to scrap free Sunday parking amid claims the move will decimate congregations.

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Floods kill at least 176, displace 200,000 in Malawi

Charlotte Observer | January 16, 2014

Flooding in Malawi has killed more than 176 people, displaced at least 200,000 others, left homes and schools submerged in water and roads washed away by the deluge in the southern African country, the vice president said Friday.

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Adventist hospital to pay $2.25M to settle false claims allegations

Sacramento Business Journal | December 23, 2014

St. Helena Hospital has agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle allegations that it performed unnecessary cardiac intervention procedures and overcharged Medicare.

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Adventist Minister arrested on 20-year-old sex charges

Pastor arrested on 20-year-old sexual battery case

News4jax.com | January 16, 2015

The pastor of a Kansas church was arrested last week in Volusia County on a Duval County warrant charging him with a sexual battery on a child more than 20 years ago.

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Children Caged Ahead of Pope's Visit to Philippines

Charisma News | January 15, 2015

Instead of bringing life, joy and Spirit, the anticipated visit of Pope Francis has sent the Philippines into a scramble to hide its poverty by way of prison.

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Federal Government cracks down on wood-burning stoves

EPA's Wood-Burning Stove Ban Has Chilling Consequences For Many Rural People

Forbes.com

It seems that even wood isn’t green or renewable enough anymore. The EPA has recently banned the production and sale of 80 percent of America’s current wood-burning stoves, the oldest heating method known to mankind and mainstay of rural homes and many of our nation’s poorest residents. The agency’s stringent one-size-fits-all rules apply equally to heavily air-polluted cities and far cleaner plus typically colder off-grid wilderness areas such as large regions of Alaska and the American West.

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Doctors told to report patients who put on weight

Head of the NHS sets out radical plans to fight the flab as new figures show that only Hungary is worse than the UK when it comes to obesity

Telegraph | December 25, 2014

General Practitioners will be asked to identify patients who are putting on weight under a new national program to help fight obesity.

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Canadian Court Upholds Right of Arrested Christians to Distribute Literature at University

Christian News | December 24, 2014

A Canadian court has upheld the right of two Christians to distribute literature on university campuses despite dislike for their message, and has found the men not guilty of a mischief charge following their arrest this past spring.

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Pope: There are limits to free expression

Associated Press | January 15, 2014

Pope Francis said Thursday there are limits to freedom of speech, especially when it insults or ridicules someone's faith.

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California cops sign contract to begin using massive biometric database

RT.com | January 13, 2014

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department – the fourth largest local policing agency in the United States – has taken another step towards building the biggest biometric database outside of the FBI’s by inking a new $24 million contract.

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Disneyland measles' outbreak spreading

Market Watch | January 14, 2014

California health officials are trying to contain an outbreak of potentially fatal measles that has been traced back to the Walt Disney Co.'s Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, Calif., the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. The officials are tracking "hundreds of people who could have been in contact with the two infected parkgoers in visits between Dec. 17 and 20," the report said.

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