Dozens of supporters of Adventist World Radio joined Seventh-day Adventist world church president Pastor Jan Paulsen and AWR executives for a celebratory rededication of the shortwave service's renovated station in Guam Feb. 26.
Agat, Guam
A second round of bilateral talks between doctrinal experts from The Salvation Army and the Seventh-day Adventist Church were held March 7 to 10 in Jackson's Point, a town 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Jackson's Point, Ontario, Canada
Six hundred business and professional people who are also members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, from nine African countries gathered in Pretoria Feb. 24 to 26 for a retreat that focused on their unique spiritual needs. They came from Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Malawi, South Africa, Mauritius and Madagascar.
Pretoria, South Africa
An estimated 42 percent of males and 50 percent of females over the age five in Papua New Guinea (PNG) have no formal education. Only 56 percent of women over the age of 15 are literate. Statistics like this has led the Adventist Development and Relief Agency in that country to set up literacy programs in the Morobe, Central, Manus and Bougainville provinces.
Lae, Papua New Guinea
Ten years after meeting in Beijing to promote economic, political and social advancement for women worldwide, thousands of women from all around the globe met in New York City Feb. 28 to March 11 to continue the cause. Among the thousands of women from governments and non-governmental organizations was Heather-Dawn Small, acting director of the Women's Ministries Department of the Seventh-day Adventist world church.
New York, New York, United States
Speaking to a gathering of nearly 3,000 members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Madrid, Spain, Pastor Jan Paulsen, president of the Adventist world church, expressed condolences and solidarity with the nation on the day when Spain observed the first anniversary of the terrorist attack in Madrid, March 11. "We will remember. We will remember," he said.
Madrid, Spain
Seventh-day Adventists in Madrid approached municipal authorities to establish a multi-faceted community project, which includes a church, a school and a community center in the Eastern part of the country's capital.
Madrid, Spain
A suicide truck bomb, which rocked the center of Baghdad, March 9, broke the two remaining stained glass windows of the Baghdad Seventh-day Adventist Church. The force from the blast also shattered the floor-to-ceiling window, which separates the parents' room from the worship hall inside the building. The blast occurred close to the Ministry of Agriculture, just 100 meters from the church compound, at around 6:30 a.m. local time. There were no church members inside the building at the time.
Baghdad, Iraq
A group of 18 people have planted an English-speaking Seventh-day Adventist? church in Amman, the Jordanian capital. The group's objective is to "create a place of worship where everyone feels safe and supported and where everyone finds acceptance and involvement," says member Curt de Gourville.
Amman, Jordan
England: Church Trains Leaders on Access to the Gospel for Disabled Aiming to lift barriers that might limit access to the gospel for the disabled in their local communities, 17 church leaders from the South England region of the Seventh-day Adventist Church participated in the first in a series of disability training programs in Bracknell, England.
Bracknell, England