The Seventh-day Adventist Church must recognize and respond to current debates about creation and other theories of origins, according to a group of leaders who met June 11 and 12 at the church's world headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States.
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders in Russia have voiced strong support for legislation, passed June 22 by Russia's lower house of parliament, which would restrict smoking in public places.
Moscow, Russia
Book sellers in the central Asian country of Turkmenistan are reportedly facing a ban on the sale of Bibles.
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
More than 10,000 people were baptized June 23 in what Tanzanian Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders are calling the largest baptism ever in the history of the church in East Africa.
Mwanza, Tanzania
Seventh-day Adventist educators and leaders have reacted to comments made last week by Lee Jasper, race relations advisor to the mayor of London, who said that the John Loughborough Seventh-day Adventist School in Tottenham should be seen as a model for "black-only" education.
London, United Kingdom
More than 50 people have been killed and many more are still missing after an earthquake registering 7.9 on the Richter scale rocked southern Peru and northern Chile June 23.
Arequipa, Peru
An individual's right to refuse active military service on the grounds of conscience is a "fundamental aspect of the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion," according to a recommendation passed by the Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Strasbourg, France
Two hundred thirty-nine students participated in the first five-kilometer "Run to Clear the Air" organized by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA) in Cambodia to promote World No Tobacco Day May 31.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
The Seventh-day Adventist Church has an important role to play in addressing the challenges facing South African society, said John Gogotya, a Southern African parliamentarian, during his June 18 visit to the Adventist Church world headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States.
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
MinistryWatch, a independent group that tracks faith-based organizations in the United States, has ranked the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA) in the top ten agencies in the relief and development sector.
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA