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Plagiarism and fraud charges rock the Seventh-day Adventists

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Church of Liberal Borrowings | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

...worker to forgo a government benefit when he has acted on his religious principles is unconstitutionally "coercive," wrote Chief Justice Warren Burger. "While the compulsion may be indirect, the infringement upon free exercise is nonetheless substantial." The precedent cited by the majority was a 1963 case that upheld a Seventh-day Adventist's right to unemployment benefits after she left a job that began requiring work on Saturday, her Sabbath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Bearing Witness | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

There have been hints of a link between coffee and pancreatic cancer before. The Harvard team points to a study ten years ago that indicated pancreatic cancer occurred more frequently in countries where coffee consumption was high. Mormons and Seventh-day Adventists, who generally do not use coffee (or cigarettes), have low rates of the disease. There has also been a case of simultaneous cancers in a husband and wife-a rare occurrence. Perhaps significantly, both added extra coffee syrup to their ground coffee before percolating it. The researchers speculate that half the 24,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Coffee Nerves | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...Mathematician Tatiana Velikanova, 47, another Muscovite, is a longtime champion of the persecuted Seventh-day Adventists, Crimean Tartars and Jewish "refuseniks" who have been denied per mission to emigrate abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST BLOC: Your Cause Is Also Our Cause | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...minimal support from Western Christians for Protestants who want to leave. That may change. Amnesty International has launched a major campaign on behalf of imprisoned Protestants, calling for protest letters to Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev at the Kremlin. Among the many prisoners: the oft-jailed leader of a breakaway Seventh-day Adventist group, who has just been sentenced to five years of hard labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Moscow Pray-In | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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