Seventh-day Adventists in the Dominican Republic joined more than 1,000 worshippers from various faith traditions—including Roman Catholics, Latter-day Saints, and members of the Church of God—for an interfaith Easter devotional and musical concert held on April 2, 2026. The event emphasized themes of unity, a shared common message, building bridges, love, and oneness. Through music, worship, and ecumenical messages, participants set aside doctrinal differences in favor of a collective celebration of Easter titled “In Him, We Are One.” [1]
El Caribe News published the following about the ecumenical Easter celebration:
• “More than a thousand people gathered in the Aula Magna of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo to hear voices that not only sang but also shared a common message. Representatives from various Christian communities came together on the same stage to share, from their own traditions, a common testimony: Jesus Christ lives.” [2]
• “This gathering, organized by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and titled the Interfaith Easter Musical Devotional ‘He Lives,’ became a space where music and faith served as a bridge between churches that, although diverse in doctrine, found a point of unity in the figure of Christ and the meaning of Easter.” [2]
The Latter Day Saints who sponsored the event described the same Easter interfaith event as follows:
• “We live in a world that often emphasizes differences, that divides and separates. But Jesus Christ invites us to something higher: to love one another, to understand one another, and to walk together. What we have experienced tonight demonstrates that when faith and goodwill come together, we can find harmony. In Him, we are one.” [3]
The clergy included:
• Roman Catholic Priest Jorge William Hernández Díaz. [3]
• Ysaura Chalas, coordinator of the Faith and Joy Catholic Foundation. [3]
• Miguel Ángel Tenorio and Hugo Montoya, from the Latter-day Saints. [3]
• Bishop Mauro Vargas, from the Church of God. [3]
• Pastor Robert Hernández, leader and representative of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. [3]
Finally, More Faith News described the same event in the following context:
• “The Catholic Church choir, the Seventh-day Adventist Church choir, the Dominican National Children’s Choir, and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints participated. Each performance offered a distinct perspective, but all conveyed the same message: that Jesus Christ is at the center of our faith, regardless of tradition. Therefore, more than a concert, it was a space where music helped to connect the attendees spiritually. Worship became a common language.” [4]
Let’s be clear—this is not some harmless cooperation; it is the blatant betrayal of our sacred trust and the erosion of our unique identity. When Seventh-day Adventists step onto a shared platform with the Roman Catholic Church and other religious bodies in an ecumenical Easter celebration, they are “building bridges” to Rome and burning their connection to the Three Angels’ Message that God Himself established. Our movement was raised up with a distinct prophetic mandate rooted in the Book of Revelation—to call people out of confusion, not to harmonize with it.
When doctrinal differences are intentionally set aside in favor of a “common message,” the very truths that define us—God’s law, the Sabbath, the sanctuary, and the Three Angels’ Messages—are cast aside by the wayside. Unity that requires silence on God’s truth is not biblical unity; it is a compromise. And compromise, when repeated often enough, turns into abandonment. This is how our brothers and sisters lose their way. The language used—“we are one,” “shared faith,” and “common message”—is ”the very ecumenical agenda long advanced by Rome.
When Adventist Church leaders participate in these forums, they reinforce the idea that differences do not matter—that all paths are spiritually equivalent, provided that Christ is named. But that is, precisely, the deception against which prophecy warns. A church called to proclaim the voice of God by giving the final message to the world now runs the risk of becoming, instead, the voice of the world. If we are not careful, the movement raised up to stand apart will end up gradually becoming absorbed into the current culture, and, in doing so, it will lose not only its message but also its very reason for existing.
“In a special sense Seventh-day Adventists have been set in the world as watchmen and light bearers. To them has been entrusted the last warning for a perishing world. On them is shining wonderful light from the word of God. They have been given a work of the most solemn import—the proclamation of the first, second, and third angels’ messages. There is no other work of so great importance. They are to allow nothing else to absorb their attention” (Testimonies, Vol. 9, p. 19).
Sources
[4] https://masfe.org/noticias/mil-asisten-concierto-interreligioso-iglesia-jesucristo/
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