Aid & Human Rights
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ADRA active after Victorian Bushfires
Braden Blyde / Kent Kingston
Adventist volunteers provided vital assistance after bushfires ripped through several areas of Victoria.
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Rescued from Prison
Ross Goldstone
Helen Eager has been fighting for a better life for society’s most vulnerable in India, Nepal and Bangladesh for more than three decades
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Be All In
Janelle Muller
That Jesus commanded—not suggested—that we love one another. That we free the oppressed. Feed the hungry. Shelter the homeless. That we seek justice.
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Desperation & Desire
Bryan Roberts
How desperation for adventure became $1 million for kids in poverty
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Give It Time
Ellesha Knight
The simple act of volunteering has been proven to add between 5-10 years to the average person’s lifespan.
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Nepali Child Receives 5000th Surgery
Open Heart International / Record staff
A two-year-old Nepali child has become the 5000th patient to receive free life-transforming surgery provided by Open Heart International (OHI) volunteers.
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Out of Sight Out of Mind
Josh Dye
The fact that just one asylum seeker from Manus Island has been processed since the centre reopened in 2012 is both a travesty and a disgrace.
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The Man Who Died Thrice
Jarrod Stackelroth
He shouldn’t be here. Before the age of 20, Dennis Perry should have died three times. Yet his firm handshake testifies to the fact that he is still very much alive.
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ADRA Responds to Ebola, Nepal Floods
Braden Blyde
The World Health Organization has warned that 20,000 people could die from West Africa’s current Ebola outbreak.
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Ask Thy Neighbour
Braden Blyde
"Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need."—2 Corinthians 8:13-14 (NIV)
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Christians Unite Against Perseuction
Linden Chuang
Church groups in Australia are joining forces in an effort to raise awareness of the plight of Christians in the Middle East.
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Solomon Islands rural clinic gets facelift
The Kukudu Rural Health Clinic in Solomon Islands gets some sprucing up.
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Prayer, prostitutes and the power of love
Lara Campbell
"Women are built to be loved, especially through sex, and to have no love and just cold sex is very empty."
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Fiji Counts the Cost of Cyclone Winston
Josh Dye
A number of Adventist churches and schools have been damaged in Fiji, as news begins to trickle in regarding the devastation wrought by Cyclone Winston.
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School Rebuilt as Vanuatu Slowly Recovers
Jarrod Stackelroth
The village of Hebron on Tanna Island has celebrated the opening of two new cyclone-proof school classrooms as Vanuatu prepares to mark one year since the devastating cyclone.
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Tandem Ride Raises Funds for Teen Girls
Josh Dye
. . . we even went into the local pub shaking our tin. When we got home we had $1500 just from the pub. It was an amazing feeling—people were so friendly
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Deadly Bushfire Destroys Church Campground
Linden Chuang
A sad day for sure, but they are buildings . . . All the memories [will] remain. The buildings can be rebuilt.
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Religious Freedoms Shrinking Worldwide
Bettina Krause
Seventh-day Adventists face challenges observing the Sabbath in nearly every corner of the Earth as religious freedoms grow increasingly restrictive and less stable worldwide, according to a new Adventist Church study.
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Beauty With Scars
Her face was rotting and unrecognisable. Yet for Nicole Sandy, this young Indian girl was the most beautiful person she had ever seen.
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A Better Future
Not even a typhoon can dampen a mother's desire to take care and provide for her children.
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Battle on a Mountaintop
Joseph Pitakia
Valasi is so much more than a remote Solomon Islands school with a few timber buildings and a couple of straw huts. It’s a beacon of hope in the midst of a spiritual battlefield.
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