In a gathering of the church's executive committee, pastor Jan Paulsen, world church president, challenges church leaders and members to focus more deliberately on the three strategic values of the world church: Unity, Growth, and Quality of Life.
The Global Mission Operations Committee last week approved more than 1 million dollars to help fund 732 projects to start new Seventh-day Adventist congregations around the world.
A statement on behalf of the Seventh-day Adventist Church to the United Nations Commission to Human Rights on April 9 deplored the "ever-increasing rise in religious intolerance, conflict and violence," and protested persecution of religious minorities.
Three pieces of legislation currently being considered by the Russian parliament pose "definite challenges to religious freedom in Russia," said John Graz of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's religious liberty department during an interview with Radio Fr
The Adventist Church will receive an Award of Excellence from the Religion Communicators Council this Thursday evening at the DeRose Hinkhouse Awards Banquet in New York City.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church needs to direct more resources and attention to the most-populated and poorest region of the world, according to the 10/40 Window Committee, which met April 14 at the Adventist Church's world headquarters in Silver Spring,