Iraq: Adventist Medic Killed, United States: ADRA Receives Highest Rating by Leading Charity Evaluator, Mozambique: First of 1000 Maranatha Churches Dedicated, Bahrain: First Camp Meeting in Northern Gulf, Egypt: New Pathfinder Clubs to Launch in Middle East, London: Adventist Music to be featured on leading BBC TV Series
Silver Spring, Maryland
"If you are a good person you should stand up for your fellow man. That is what a Christ-like character is all about--helping one another," said Joseph Adante of the Filipino Church in Alberta, Canada.
Dallas, Texas, United States
Seventh-day Adventist women in the Southern Asia Pacific region led the first major outreach effort in the church's campaign to connect with residents in large cities. With the theme of "Journey to Joy," the February 17 to 24 public meetings featured speakers from several of the church's Women's Ministries departments.
Jakarta, Indonesia
The AIDS International Ministry (AAIM), set up by the Seventh-day Adventist world church in 2003 and based in Johannesburg, South Africa to minister to those on the continent of Africa suffering from AIDS, may have started small. But at its fourth annual tri-regional advisory held Feb. 12 to 14 in Nairobi, Kenya, its growth was evident. When Drs. Oscar and Eugenia Giordano began directing the office, just four delegates showed up for AAIM's first advisory. Four years later, that number has jumped to 22.
Nairobi, Kenya
In a city where 16 million people live with radical fundamentalists who have blown up the meeting places of those whose beliefs differ from theirs, 700 people recently gathered to learn how to Tell the World about Jesus.
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
On the fourth anniversary of the second Gulf War, an interview with Pastor Basim Fargo, leader of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Iraq, reveals the hardships endured by the few remaining church members in the country. With the unabated escalation of sectarian violence in Iraq, there is news of yet more bomb damage to the Adventist church in Baghdad.
Baghdad, Iraq
Five Seventh-day Adventists joined some 5,000 women at United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York this week for the organization's 51st Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The session, which began Feb. 26 and ends March 9, gives voice to the plight of millions of women and girls worldwide for whom abuse and basic human rights violation is a way of life.
New York, New York, United States
This year marked the 77th time that South African women participated in a woman-led worldwide day of prayer. But it was the first time that the women of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Helderberg Basin in Somerset West, near Cape Town, South Africa, hosted the interdenominational day of prayer. The day of prayer took place Friday, March 2, from 10 a.m. to 12 a.m.
Somerset West, South Africa
"It is really a good day when your first phone call in the morning is someone enrolling in Bible Correspondence [classes], and a little later someone [calls] requesting more information on how she can receive the HOPE channel. I am looking forward to more such days," said Matthias Müller, general manager of Stimme der Hoffnung ('Voice of Hope'), the Seventh-day Adventist church's media center broadcasting out of central Germany.
Alsbach-Haehnlein, Hesse, Germany
Seventh-day Adventists in Brazil are grieving after a 20-month-old child was discovered strangled in the baptismal tank of an Adventist church in Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil on March 3. Church leaders there have released a statement denouncing the heinous crime and reiterating the Adventist church's commitment to the safety and welfare of all children.
Brasília, Brazil