Adventist Hospital Earns High Rating
Loma Linda University Medical Center has again been awarded high-level accreditation following an onsite evaluation by the United States' leading hospital accrediting agency.
Loma Linda, California, USA
Best-Selling Author Speaks to Adventist Churches
Thousands of Seventh-day Adventists and hundreds of people from the community attended Adventist churches in the South Pacific to hear Christian author Philip Yancey live via satellite uplink on October 20.
Cooranbong, New South Wales, Australia
Report Names World's Worst Religious Freedom Offenders
The U.S. State Department has named seven countries, including Afghanistan, Myanmar, and China, as the world's worst violators of religious freedom.
Washington, D.C., USA
Researchers Claim Remains Could Be Luke's
Italian researchers claim DNA tests on human remains from an ancient coffin are consistent with the long-held tradition that the bones belong to the apostle Luke.
Ferrara, Italy
Religious Freedom Education Campaign Impacts Romania
Principles of religious liberty must be understood and embraced not only by Romania's political leaders, but by members of the general public as well, says Viorel Dima, key organizer of an unprecedented series of public meetings and seminars held October 9 to 18 throughout Romania.
Bucharest, Romania
Adventists in Azerbaijan Face Increased Hostility
Seventh-day Adventist leaders in Azerbaijan say church members will continue to meet together and worship despite a call from the country's secret service chief for non-Muslim religious groups to scale back their activities.
Baku, Azerbaijan
United States: Adventist Leader Emphasizes Evangelism
Pastor Don Schneider, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America, opened the church's Year-end Meeting October 28 with a call for church leaders and members to embrace a vision for evangelism.
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Bean Cuisine Exhibition Attracts Thousands in Korea
More than 5,000 people visited the Bean Cuisine Exhibition held at the Seoul Adventist Hospital Playground on October 14 and 15.
Seoul, South Korea
Food Security Projects Planned for Ghana
Some 300,000 Ghanaians will benefit over the next five years from a $27.7 million grant received by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA) for agriculture, health, and other development projects.
Accra, Ghana
United States: Unprecedented "Signs" Mailing to 2 Million Homes
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Minnesota has ordered more than 2 million copies of the special issue of Signs of the Times--"Where was God?", reports Bob Kyte, president of Pacific Press, an Adventist publishing company in Nampa, Idaho, United States.
Nampa, Idaho, USA