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...were landing on Plymouth Rock. Though the original colonists died out and the islands were later resettled with African slaves from the West Indies, the heritage of tongue and religion somehow endured. The 6,000-odd black-skinned, English-speaking islanders who live there now are 80% Baptist, 15% Seventh-Day Adventist, 5% Roman Catholic. Their pride and joy are their schools; literacy is 100%, compared to the Colombian mainland average of 56%. From the islands last week came jolting news that a Spanish priest, named as Inspector of Education for the islands by the Colombian government, had shut down...
Washington Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists Seattle...
...Hollywood last week, Actress Penny Edwards, 25 (Pony Soldier, Powder River), announced her retirement from the commercial motion pictures to devote herself to full-time church work. Actress Edwards, wife of TV Director Ralph Winters, was baptized a Roman Catholic, will now become a Seventh-Day Adventist. Recently, she said, she had felt a sudden surge of religious faith. "I felt myself bursting with love and happiness. At that moment, I wanted to have a baby. Then, two weeks later, I found I was pregnant." Turning to serious study of the Bible, she found that the truths of Scripture were...
...Seventh-Day Adventists, meeting in fall council in Washington, listened with pride to reports of fresh church growth and activity. Adventists now have some 900,000 baptized members throughout the world, who contributed $56 million in offerings last year, helped support 2,000 foreign missionaries. The fall council's main business: approving a new foreign missions budget of $21 million. ¶ The Cape Town Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church officially viewed with alarm a report that Roman Catholics had dedicated "South Africa and its people" to the "Blessed Virgin Mary Assumed into Heaven." Also alarmed at Catholic growth...
Last month a British orange farmer caught two Nguru tribesmen stripping his trees. In a scuffle with police, one Nguru was killed. The violence spread. In Mala-mulo, the American Seventh-Day Adventist mission, with 200 leper patients in its hospital, was besieged by jeering tribesmen. Bands of Ngurus roamed the green countryside, chopping down telephone poles, blocking roads, stoning whites' cars. One British teagrower was seized, forced to stand still while Ngurus sharpened their pangas on the soles of his shoes and made mock passes through his hair with the knives...