Three months after the Dec. 26 tsunami hit North Sumatra, Nias Island, with nearly 1 million residents, was devastated by an earthquake on Monday evening, March 28, with a magnitude of 8.7 on the Richter scale.
Jakarta, Indonesia
World Church: Sahly Accepts Home Study International/Griggs University Presidency Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [ANN Staff] ...Donald R. Sahly, Ed.D, a Seventh-day Adventist Church educational administrator for 38 years has accepted an invitation to become president of Home Study International and Griggs University which provide independent study and distance education programs from pre-school to higher education. Sahly is currently president of Southwestern Adventist University in Keene, Texas.
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
The struggle to save tiny lives -- infants who require neonatal intensive care -- will be easier thanks to a March 13 fundraiser for the Loma Linda University (LLU) Children's Hospital Foundation. A total of U.S. $380,000 was raised at the 12th annual fundraising gala held in San Bernardino, a city bordering Loma Linda.
San Bernardino, California, United States
Twelve-year-old Asadullah wants what every adolescent dreams of -- freedom. Freedom to run and play with his friends without worrying about the warring factions in his native Afghanistan, or whether the nickel-size hole in his heart will let him run more than a few steps at a time.
Loma Linda, California, United States
When students of El Dorado Adventist School (EAS) returned from Christmas vacation, they came with a goal: to help victims of the Dec. 26, 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
Placerville, California, United States
Dedicated to their mission of providing quality education, school principals often go beyond normal duties to reach those who could benefit from learning. But Tekemau Ribabaiti may truly be in a class all his own: for the second time, the principal of Kauma Adventist High School was rescued after weeks adrift at sea.
Kauma, Kiribati
Thousands are attending the twice daily evangelism meetings in Kiev, Ukraine to hear Mark Finley, evangelist and director of global evangelism for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Finley, speaker emeritus of "It Is Written" (IIW), an Adventist television outreach, is heading into the final week of IIW's ACTS 2005 satellite evangelistic series, "Revelation Offers Hope."
Kiev, Ukraine
The idea started with one person. Soon others joined in and now the Bible World CD-ROM is receiving acclaim on the Portuguese Christian scene, said Artur Machado, communication director of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Portugal.
Lisbon, Portugal
The Seventh-day Adventist Church last week joined with other faith groups to advocate for the rights of American workers to honor their faith and remain employed. At a March 17 news conference in the United States Capitol building, James Standish of the Seventh-day Adventist Church joined U.S. Senators Rick Santorum and John F. Kerry, Representatives Mark Souder, Carolyn McCarthy and Bobby Jindal, and a broad coalition of faith leaders to call for the passage of the Workplace Religious Freedom Act (WRFA).
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Five years and four months after it demolished a Seventh-day Adventist church building, the government of Turkmenistan has allowed the local congregation to hold a weekly Sabbath, or Saturday, worship service. Church sources report that between 75 and 80 attended the opening service, including local city officials from Ashkhabad.
Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan