Hurricane Help -- The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) has committed U.S.$1 million to Katrina relief and is continuing to raise money for the disaster area. ADRA is partnering with Adventist Community Services, which is the church's relief network for North America, and other church organizations.
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
After more than a decade of study, 10 Seventh-day Adventist pastors and church workers recently received their bachelor of arts degrees in religion at a ceremony in Riga, Latvia.
Riga, Latvia
As part of a major effort to combat the spread of illicit drugs, Seventh-day Adventists in Magangué, Bolivar, a town of 100,000 off the coast of Colombia, joined the local government in an active education campaign. A major weapon in the fight is a public education program about the dangers of drug use.
Magangué, Bolivar, Colombia
When you have a decent place to live, a nice job, food to eat and clean water to drink every day, poverty may not be something you think about. But for billions of people across the globe, poverty is a constant companion.
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
* Walla Walla College, a Seventh-day Adventist university in Walla Walla, Washington, is offering a limited number of tuition-free spaces to students in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
In a notable decision, the executive committee of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Middle East Region has voted to move its headquarters from Cyprus to Lebanon, as soon as practical in 2006. The move will reverse a step taken 22 years earlier, shifting the regional office from what was then a war-torn nation to the Mediterranean island.
Beirut, Lebanon
America's churches are adopting technology in ways that echo years-long efforts by Seventh-day Adventist congregations, a report by the Barna Group, a research firm based in Ventura, California, United States, finds.
Ventura, California, United States
As Romania considers religious freedom laws that would affect the lives of its 22 million citizens, leaders of various Orthodox and Protestant churches, government representatives and overseas participants came together Sept. 12 to 13 for a seminar on "Religious Liberty in the Romanian and European Context."
Bucharest, Romania
In an often brutal world, one in which wars abound and chaos is everywhere, peace may be hard to find. But Seventh-day Adventists have a duty to promote peace, says Doug Morgan who, along with Ronald Osborn, began the Adventist Peace Fellowship (APF) in 2002, a society that exists to raise awareness of peacemaking.
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
They are in the trenches every day feeding, clothing, teaching, empowering and fighting diseases. They are the ones that the world's governments and world bodies depend on to carry out plans that help make the world a better place. They are nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). More than 4,000 of them met in New York for three days starting Sept. 7 to examine goals set by heads of state at the United Nations five years ago to improve life for every human being.
New York, New York, United States