A disastrous loss of life was averted when a 2:30 a.m. phone call alerted residents to a fire at a building housing leaders of the East Russia region of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and their families.
Even today, for many young Masai girls, basic human rights continue to be overshadowed by traditional beliefs and practices that leave so many of them with no education and forced into an early marriage--sometimes as young as age seven.
Pastor Barry C. Black, a rear admiral and retiring chief of chaplains of the U.S. Navy, will become the 62nd chaplain of the United States Senate, the upper house of the Congress.
In an effort to help combat the growing threat of HIV-AIDS in the South Pacific, leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the region voted to approve a strategic framework for action as well as a commitment statement during recent mid-year meetings.
National responses to terrorism, and what those responses should be, dominated the debate at the latest experts meeting of the International Religious Liberty Association.
Mass involvement of Seventh-day Adventist laity in the Euro-Asia region is helping the church to grow, administrators say.