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Adventist officials in Prague said the
church lost property worth US$52.1
million when the Communist regime
seized its holdings in 1952. The Czech
republic, church officials said, is the last
formerly Communist nation to reach a
settlement of this kind with religious
organizations.
Opposition Social Democrats tried to
block the arrangement, seeking a court
injunction hours before the individual
agreements were signed. Though not
granting an injunction, the state constitutional
court is expected to issue a ruling
on the Social Democrats’ complaint,
media reports indicate.
J. P. Lorenz, a pastor, organized the
first Seventh-day Adventist congregation
in Prague in 1902. A union conference
was organized in the area in 1919,
according to the Seventh-day Adventist
Encyclopedia. n
—with reporting from Tomáš Kábrt,
Czecho-Slovakian Union in Prague
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Vegetarian Diet Report Is Launched
at Loma Linda University
Adventist school hosts Sixth International Conference on Vegetarian Nutrition.
By Herbert Atienza, media relations specialist, Loma Linda University Health, writing from Loma Linda, California
A groundbreaking report on the
benefits of a plant-based Mediterraneanstyle
diet—news of which captured
global headlines—was released at a scientific
conference held at Loma Linda
University.
A session at the Sixth International
Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition
(6ICVN) saw the first public presentation
of an international headlinemaking
landmark study by Spanish
researchers that made a head-to-head
comparison and determined that plantbased
Mediterranean diets are better at
reducing heart disease risks than a lowfat
diet.
Miguel Ángel Martínez, M.D., M.P.H.,
Ph.D., lead investigator of the study
called PREDIMED, for “PREvención con
Dieta MEDiterránea” (“Prevention With
a Mediterranean Diet”), said 6ICVN was
a good place to unveil his study’s findings
because they stand on groundbreaking
research conducted at Loma
GLOBAL SENSATION: Tony Yang (standing), assistant vice president for public affairs at Loma Linda University Health, addresses a
news conference, held in conjunction with the Sixth International Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition, to announce the findings of a new
landmark study on plant-based diets. The study garnered global headlines and media attention. Sitting on the panel (left to right): Dr.
Miguel Ángel Martínez, lead investigator for the PREDIMED study and professor at University of Navarra, Spain; Dr. Joan Sabate, 6ICVN
chair and chair of the Nutrition Department at Loma Linda University School of Public Health; and Dr. Sam Soret, associate dean for
public health practice at Loma Linda University School of Public Health.
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