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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Seventh-day Adventist scholars, pastors and church members are readying a variety of responses to The Da Vinci Code, the blockbuster motion picture that has captured an enormous share of media attention.
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
"People need accurate, timely and unbiased information, especially on religious issues," Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh, editor of Ghana's "Daily Graphic" newspaper, told delegates at the recent All-Africa Conference on Religious Liberty. "People rely on the media to explain issues, policies and programs aimed at moving nations forward."
Accra, Ghana
Some 2,500 young people joined in a mega Sabbath worship program at Montemorelos University Church in Mexico via the Internet. And many more viewed the program as it was broadcast live on Adventist Television Networks' Esperanza TV and Nuevo Tiempo, as well as A.D.venir Network. At the church alone there were 2,000 gathered.
Montemorelos, Mexico
In the Ilsan district of Koyang City, Korea, northwest of Seoul, Sabbath, or Saturday, morning worship is now rather different for some Seventh-day Adventists than in the nearly 700 other Adventist churches in Korea. Instead of singing, praying and hearing sermons and Bible readings in the Korean language, church members will be immersed in the same faith rituals, but in English.
Ilsan, Republic of Korea
Seventh-day Adventists and Muslims met April 23 and shared their perspectives on last day events. The meeting was a joint venture between the church's Global Center for Adventist-Muslim Relations (GCAMR), Newbold College, and the Shia Muslim community, whose main United Kingdom center is in Maida Vale, London.
London, England
Dr. Lucille Sabas has been given a vote of confidence. As the only woman president of a Seventh-day Adventist university in male-dominated Africa, Sabas was re-elected after three years in office. An installation ceremony was held April 30 officially recognizing Sabas as the rector, or president, of the Adventist University, Cosendai, located in Yaounde, Cameroon.
Yaounde, Cameroon
During a time of continued tension in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) continues to provide relief aid to desperate Internally Displaced Persons, or IDPs in Darfur, Sudan.
Darfur, Sudan
An eight-month campaign of vandalism to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Derry, Northern Ireland, culminated in £1,000 ($1,844.60 U.S.) of damage last weekend, leaving church members "living in fear," according to local media reports.
Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
"America truly is not like past superpowers, countries who sought territorial gain or imperial dominion," United States Senator John McCain of Arizona told attendees at a dinner sponsored by the International Religious Liberty Association (IRLA), Liberty magazine and the North American Religious Liberty Association (NARLA), three religious freedom outreaches sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Washington, D.C., United States