Iberoamericana, a Jesuit university in Mexico City [1], hosted an event on September 3, 2025, titled ‘Religions for Inclusion,’ where various religious leaders gathered. Sponsored by Rome and endorsed by both Christian and non-Christian communities, this meeting sought to promote peace, foster dialogue, encourage unity, and strengthen cooperation among diverse faith traditions. Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Reformed, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and even Scientology representatives participated. Notably, among the participants was the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The Commission for Interreligious Dialogue of the Catholic Church (CEDIC) published the following:
• “On September 3, 2025, the ‘Religions for Inclusion’ meeting was held at the Universidad Iberoamericana (CDMEX) facilities.” [2]
• “This event brought together various religious leaders: the Roman Catholic Church, the Russian Orthodox Church, the Orthodox Church of Antioch, the Anglican Church, the Reformed Church, the Covenant Church, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Old Catholic Church, and Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and Scientology communities.” [2]
• “The purpose of this meeting was to discuss the current situation in the country and the world, share experiences, coordinate joint actions, and advance the organization of the Interreligious Forum for Peace.” [2]
• “The day began with a fraternal gathering, which fostered closeness and dialogue among the participants.” [2]
• “Ignacio Cuevas welcomed the Catholic priest, Father Mario Escalera Villanueva, Secretary of the Commission for Interreligious Dialogue of the Catholic Church (CEDIC), with special thanks, recognizing his accompaniment and commitment to building peace. The priest also thanked the invitation and offered his friendship to all those present.” [2]
• “This meeting represents an important step toward unity, inclusion, and interfaith collaboration, leading up to the Interfaith Forum for Peace.” [2]
The gathering emphasized fraternity, dialogue, a commitment to mutual respect, cooperation, peace, and a common agenda of inclusion. In this setting, Seventh-day Adventists in Mexico City appeared on equal footing with Jesuits and other world religions in the name of unity. Active participation with Jesuits in ecumenical forums organized by Rome and its partners destroys the distinct prophetic role of the Adventist Church. The danger lies in the setting aside of our distinct message.
Historically, Adventists have always emphasized the unique calling of the Remnant people—proclaiming the Three Angels’ Messages of Revelation 14 and warning against the final deception described in Revelation 13 and 17. When our members stand alongside Roman Catholic leaders under the banner of inclusion or peace, it conveys a message of partnership and fellowship.
Events like the one in Mexico City, “Religions for Inclusion,” demonstrate how our message is compromised in these shared platforms, common causes, and joint religious declarations. When our members stand shoulder to shoulder beneath Rome’s banner of inclusion, it reveals a troubling shift from prophetic faithfulness to ecumenical assimilation.
This participation illustrates precisely the danger warned of in the Book of Revelation and the Spirit of Prophecy—that in the name of unity, truth will be compromised, and the stage will be set for the final crisis. While we are called to be kind, respectful, and peace-loving, it must never come at the expense of our distinctive message.
“Protestants, having cast away the shield of truth, will also be deluded. Papists, Protestants, and worldlings will alike accept the form of godliness without the power, and they will see in this union a grand movement for the conversion of the world, and the ushering in of the long-expected millennium” (Great Controversy, p. 588).
Sources
[1] https://ibero.mx/welcome-ibero
[2] https://cedic.cem.org.mx/cdmx-religiones-por-la-inclusion/
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How is our message compromised when we dialogue with others? How can we work for others, even ministers, if we don’t talk and commune with them? Don’t just selectively quote from Ellen White. She does talk of how ministers need to work for ministers.
These forums operate with a clear agenda: full, visible unity. While we should certainly engage in conversations with people, but an ecumenical forum is not true dialogue—for the outcome has already been predetermined. To claim that such gatherings are the only way to interact with others is misleading and simply not true.
No one is saying that such gathering is the only way to interact. However, to make the implication that one cannot think for themselves and going into a gathering like this with strong convictions, and dialogues with others, even if they may have an agenda, is to seek to hide your light under a bushel.
Didn’t the Bible say always be ready to give an answer for what you believe? If going into a forum like this means that you cannot stand up to your beliefs, then maybe the beliefs that you have don’t hold any water to begin with.
Brother Andy, thank you for sharing this critical coverage — many are being awakened by your vigilance.
I would love to dig deeper into exactly how Seventh-day Adventists came to appear in that Jesuit-hosted forum. My research so far shows that the Adventist General Conference has never adopted an official union with ecumenical bodies or Jesuit institutions, and Adventist policy discourages “entangling memberships” that compromise doctrine.
Yet, public events like the Mexico City gathering (with Jesuits and other faiths) carry heavy symbolism—and even if official alignment is not evident, the perception of unity can be dangerous to our prophetic witness.
Did the national or union Adventist leadership authorize participation? Were those Adventists official delegates or independent individuals?
May the Lord guide your investigations and bless your service to truth.
What is even more troubling is that it is not our Adventist people who report on these ecumenical events. More often than not, it is the Catholic Church that publishes these news items, which gives the impression that our own people want to avoid drawing attention to the very events in which they are actively participating.
It is a stretch to make the implication that “our own people” do not report on it because they want to avoid drawing attention. Just because you attend a forum to dialogue and build relationships and present what “we” believe, does not mean it requires publication all over the place.
It is sad that we attack the intentions of others without even talking to them first, to genuinely know their purpose. Such is not of God and does not build our cause to reach others for the kingdom of God. Our fighting with each other is not something people of the world would want to be a part of. Our enemy is not flesh and blood.
The Baptist Eucharist Ministry (BEM) largely undermined the purpose and the mission of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. This Meeting was organized in Peru in 1982. This was purely an ecumenical meeting organized by the Jesuits to make the protestants to give up their biblical beliefs and embrace oikuimene. This meeting led the S.D.A church to change it’s original ”Three Angels Messenges” a true protestant banner, to a friendly Jesuit Catholic logo of IHS which is the abomination of the desolation. When the logo changes, the message also changes. Today ,the Seventh Day Adventist Church is in bad shape, because it is infiltrated in all levels , by the Jesuits of Rome. The independent ministries within the Seventh Day Adventists are the ones God is going to use in the last days to proclaim the last message of mercy the ”three angels messages ” which has been trampled down.
It is a backsliding church that lessens the distance between itself and the Papacy. – ST February 19, 1894
The Lord has pronounced a curse upon those who take from or add to the Scriptures. The great I AM has decided what shall constitute the rule of faith and doctrine, and he has designed that the Bible shall be a household book. The church that holds to the word of God is irreconcilably separated from Rome. Protestants were once thus apart from this great church of apostasy, but they have approached more nearly to her, and are still in the path of reconciliation to the Church of Rome. Rome never changes. Her principles have not altered in the least. She has not lessened the breach between herself and Protestants; they have done all the advancing. But what does this argue for the Protestantism of this day? It is the rejection of Bible truth which makes men approach to infidelity. It is a backsliding church that lessens the distance between itself and the Papacy. – ST February 19, 1894
It is souls like Luther, Cranmer, Ridley, Hooper, and the thousands of noble men who were martyrs for the truth’s sake, who are the true Protestants. They stood as faithful sentinels of truth, declaring that Protestantism is incapable of union with Romanism, but must be as far separated from the principles of the Papacy as is the east from the west. Such advocates of truth could no more harmonize with “the man of sin” than could Christ and his apostles. In earlier ages the righteous felt that it was impossible to affiliate with Rome, and, though their antagonism to this system of error was maintained at risk of property and life, yet they had courage to maintain their separation, and manfully struggled for the truth. Bible truth was dearer to them than wealth, honor, or even life itself. They could not endure to see the truth buried under a mass of superstition and lying sophistry. They took the word of God in their hands, and raised the standard of truth before the people, boldly declaring that which God had revealed unto them through diligent searching of the Bible. They died the cruelest of deaths for their fidelity to God, but by their blood they purchased for us liberties and privileges that many who claim to be Protestants are easily yielding up to the power of evil. But shall we yield up these dearly bought privileges? Shall we offer insult to the God of heaven, and, after he has freed us from the Romish yoke, again place ourselves in bondage to this antichristian power? Shall we prove our degeneracy by signing away our religious liberty, our right to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience? – ST February 19, 1894