Three Seventh-day Adventist organizations have joined a legal challenge against a National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) ruling that a religious college in Montana must allow its faculty to organize a labor union.
Washington, D.C., USA
The outlook for religious tolerance around the world has grown bleaker in the past decade, as religion has increasingly been hijacked to further political goals, says Jonathan Gallagher, United Nations liaison for the Seventh-day Adventist world church.
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
The relationship between diet and cancer among Seventh-day Adventists will be the focus of the largest-ever health study to be conducted by Loma Linda University's school of public health.
Loma Linda, California, USA
Ralph S. Watts Jr., president of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) for the past 16 years, has announced his intention to retire.
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Southern Asia-Pacific region has voted to train and equip 100,000 lay people to lead out in expanding church membership.
Cavite, Philippines
More than 300 recently trained Seventh-day Adventist lay workers, known as Global Mission pioneers, departed this week from Tula, Russia, to begin launching new churches in 12 former Soviet nations.
Tula, Russia
More than 1,900 flood and landslide survivors on Nias Island, located in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia, are receiving food from the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA) office in Indonesia.
Nias Island, Indonesia
Sir Silas Atopare, Governor General of Papua New Guinea, visited with Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders and members during his recent visit to the Philippines.
Cavite, Philippines
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
A religious group in Oregon, United States, that has financed an anti-Roman Catholic billboard is not affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, says a spokesperson for the Adventist Church.
Medford, Oregon, USA