Andorra: Andorra’s first Seventh-Day Adventist Church is inaugurated

Written by Linda Digby 17 Jul 2015
Andorra: Andorra’s first Seventh-Day Adventist Church is inaugurated

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination that observes Saturday, the original seventh day of the Judeo-Christian week, and accentuates the imminent second coming (advent) of Jesus Christ. For more than 40 years efforts were made to establish the first Seventh-day Adventist Church in Principat d’Andorra, a very small country in the middle of the Pyrenean mountains. The prayer and work of a few dedicated families living in Andorra and Spain have produced the establishment of Associació Cristiana Adventista d’Andorra. The government of Andorra has existed with a peculiar arrangement since 1269 AD, as decreed in the Pareatge Agreements. The country has two heads of state or co-princes; one prince is the president of France, and the other is the Bishop of Urgell (Catalonia, Spain). The Andorran Constitution warrants non-discrimination for religious reasons, and freedom of cult and religion, but there is a specific mention that grants protection and preeminence to the traditional church of the nation. These laws explain why the nation's first Adventist Church has had to be registered as an ‘association.’

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