Seventh-day Adventist Church
Protestant Christian denomination
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| 2024 | ADRA continues its developmental work in Bangladesh, with ongoing efforts that have grown since 1997, though not at the exact rate originally anticipated. |
| 2024 | ADRA expanded its global outreach to 120 countries, implementing over 1,600 projects that reached over 21 million lives. |
| 2023 | Hans Diehl, a physician and founder of the Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP), passed away. |
| 2023 | Newest hospital in the list: AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway, indicating ongoing expansion of the Seventh-day Adventist hospital network. |
| 2023 | The Seventh-day Adventist Church expanded its educational reach to 9,845 institutions across over 100 countries, serving more than 2.17 million students worldwide. |
| 2022 | Seventh-day Adventist Church became the largest Protestant health care provider globally, operating 1,000 medical facilities worldwide with 36,000 beds and 78,000 employees, serving 1.5 million inpatient admissions and 20 million outpatient visits. |
| 2022 | Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) approved ordaining women pastors. |
| 2021 | Surangel Whipps Jr. became President of Palau |
| 2021 | Milly Babalanda became Minister for Presidency of Cabinet of Uganda |
| 2021 | Had 1.2 million members worshiping in Canada and the United States. |
| 2020 | The Romanian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists reported a church membership of 62,215. |
| 2020 | A Medical Pavilion opened in conjunction with Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center, housing physician offices. |
| 2020 | Robert Gentry, a nuclear physicist known for young Earth creationist claims, died. |
| 2020 | Iraqi Post released a set of eight commemorative stamps honoring Christian churches in Iraq, which included a photograph of the Baghdad Seventh-day Adventist Church. |
| 2020 | Experienced the lowest membership increase in 16 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, adding only 803,000 members. |
| February 2020 | Howard University Hospital and Adventist HealthCare signed an agreement for Adventist HealthCare to manage the hospital for three years, with Anita L. A. Jenkins appointed as the new chief executive. |
| 2019 | Barbara O'Neill was banned indefinitely from providing health services and education due to dangerous health advice |
| 2019 | Leonard Lee Bailey, a world-renowned heart surgeon known for transplanting a baboon's heart into a premature-born baby, passed away. |
| 2019 | Manasseh Sogavare began his fourth term as Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands |
| 2019 | A new Roseville shared service center replaced the previous corporate office. Additionally, Adventist Health was among six organizations awarded the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence. |
| 2019 | Reached 21 million baptized members globally. |
| August 2019 | Adventist HealthCare Washington Adventist Hospital changed its name and moved to the newly built Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center, featuring 180 all-private patient rooms. |
| July 2019 | Adventist HealthCare and Nexus Health/Fort Washington Medical Center signed an agreement for Fort Washington Medical Center to join Adventist HealthCare. |
| March 2019 | Adventist HealthCare Rehabilitation received approval for its White Oak Certificate of Need, allowing Rehabilitation services to move to Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center in 2020. |
| February 2019 | The Maharashtra state cabinet ordered action against the university for alleged irregularities in the admission process. |
| 2018 | A legal case was filed against the vice chancellor and two officials of Spicer Adventist University, alleging forgery of PhD certificates. |
| 2018 | Phyllis B. Acosta, a public health researcher who pioneered nutritional therapy for phenylketonuria management, died. |
| 2018 | Del Delker passed away after a long career in sacred music. |
| 2017 | Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie became Chief Executive Officer of Forestry Commission of Ghana, serving until 2020 |
| 2017 | Established membership in almost every country and territory worldwide, with only 10 exceptions. |
| 2016 | Hackettstown Hospital joined Atlantic Health System in Morristown, New Jersey. |
| 2016 | Andrew Holness began his second term as Prime Minister of Jamaica |
| 2016 | Hollywood film Hacksaw Ridge was released, depicting the true story of Desmond Doss, a Seventh-Day Adventist medic who showed extraordinary bravery during World War II by saving at least 75 wounded American soldiers in a single night on Maeda Escarpment in Okinawa, ultimately being awarded the Medal of Honor. |
| 2016 | The Church released the film Tell the World, expanding its media evangelism efforts. |
| 2015 | Jioji Konousi Konrote became President of Fiji |
| 2015 | Seventh-day Adventists celebrated 100 years of presence on Montserrat. |
| 2015 | During the General Conference session in San Antonio, Texas, the church made changes to the wording of several fundamental beliefs, further refining its theological position. |
| 2015 | Became the most racially diverse denomination in the United States, with a membership composition of 37% white, 32% black, 15% Hispanic, 8% Asian, and 8% other or mixed. |
| December 2015 | Adventist HealthCare received approval to relocate Adventist HealthCare Washington Adventist Hospital to the White Oak/Calverton area of Montgomery County. |
| July 8 2015 | At the General Conference Business Session in San Antonio, Texas, delegates voted 1,381-977 against allowing divisions to ordain women, maintaining the current policy of commissioning women but ordaining only men. |
| March 2015 | Adventist HealthCare opened its first urgent care center in Rockville, Maryland, and announced plans for two additional facilities in Germantown and Laurel. |
| January 22 2015 | Christianity Today recognized the Seventh-day Adventist Church as the 'fifth-largest Christian communion worldwide' in its January 22nd issue. |
| 2014 | Frank Jobe, an orthopedist and sports medicine physician who worked for the Los Angeles Dodgers, passed away. |
| 2014 | Manasseh Sogavare began his third term as Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands |
| 2014 | ADRA International responded to approximately 60 emergencies worldwide, directly benefiting more than 127,000 people. |
| 2014 | Review and Herald Publishing Association merged with Pacific Press Publishing Association, with a board vote of 153-to-66 in favor of the merger. |
| October 2014 | As part of a branding initiative, Shady Grove Adventist Hospital was renamed Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center and Washington Adventist Hospital was renamed Adventist HealthCare Washington Adventist Hospital. |
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