On July 11, 2025, during the final press conference held at the 62nd General Conference Session, I wanted to know more about the Office of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty (PARL). For the past decade, most of the news surrounding PARL and its director, Ganoune Diop, has focused on his involvement with major global organizations—such as the Global Christian Forum (an ecumenical network), the G20 Interfaith Forum (an international social justice platform), the Conference of Secretaries of Christian World Communions (a global forum that promotes church unity), and various high-level United Nations meetings where Diop has delivered keynote addresses on various issues.
I wanted to know if there was more to PARL—something more directly in line with religious liberty in the context of current events surrounding the development of Revelation 13. With so much unfolding here in America, I was curious about what conversations were happening within the Office of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty regarding pressing issues like Christian nationalism, the upcoming appointment of Project 2025 contributor Jonathan Berry, the growing movement to revive Christianity in America, and renewed talk of blue laws.
So I asked the newly elected Associate Director of PARL, Pastor Samuel Neves, specifically about these concerns. You can watch his response in the video above.
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We need religious liberty within the church. The majority should not rule over those in the minority. If I believe differently from you, that should not be cause for persecution. Yet, that is what is currently happening. This is a typical case example of the parable from Luke 7:40-50. The church wants liberty but won’t give it to its members..
Very good point!
Really and truly we shouldn’t even acknowledge their position because it’s illegitimate.
“11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. 12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. ”
Ephesians 5:11-12 KJV
Thank you, Brother Andy, for asking the question many are too afraid to voice. What alarms me most is that the Associate Director of PARL couldn’t even mention Jonathan Berry’s name, Project 2025, or Blue Laws in his response. The core of your concern was left unanswered — and that silence speaks volumes.
As the image of the beast is forming before our eyes, we’re seeing a prophetic crisis met with corporate politeness. Where is the boldness of A.T. Jones? Where is the straight testimony of Revelation 14:8?
When the Sunday movement becomes more open and aggressive, and Adventism grows more quiet and diplomatic, it reveals that the loud cry will come — not from official positions — but from faithful voices outside the inner circle.
God bless you for being one of them. Keep blowing the trumpet.