It's time to loosen the centuries-old ties between the Lutheran Church and the Norwegian government, according to a four-year commission into the country's traditional church-state relationship.
Oslo, Norway
Seventh-day Adventist youth leaders from across the Euro-Asia region met in Ukraine earlier this month to learn ways of using local churches to reach youth with a drug-free message.
Kiev, Ukraine
Seventh-day Adventist educators from eight South American countries have set a 10-year goal of establishing Adventist schools in cities with populations greater than 100,000.
São Paulo, Brazil
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Cameroon sponsored a five-day series of AIDS Awareness seminars, which began March 19.
Yaounde, Cameroon
Seventh-day Adventists are establishing a network of sexual abuse and domestic violence counselors funded by profits from opportunity shops.
Sydney, Australia
Renewed religious violence in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad has left six people dead.
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Australian writer and editor Bruce Manners was this year's recipient of the Bridge Award for communication, an award that recognizes high professional standards among Seventh-day Adventist communicators.
Sydney, Australia
State-funded religious schools in the United Kingdom have come under fire in recent weeks for teaching creationism in the classroom, with some public leaders denouncing the schools for promoting "anti-evolutionary" theories.
London, England
Seventh-day Adventists in Romania concluded a three-week evangelism series March 16, an event that drew on satellite and internet technology to reach thousands of people both in Romania and around the world.
Bucharest, Romania
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency has become the first non-governmental organization to participate in the first Inter-Ministerial Committee Against Tobacco in Morocco.
Rabat, Morocco