The cause of religious freedom was given a thumbs-up at the United Nations with a "special consultative status" granted May 1 to the International Religious Liberty Association.
Youth leaders from the Adventist Church's mid-Atlantic region hosted a Youth Congress in the city of Baltimore, April 23 to 26, 2003.
Expressing concern that a pending "Flexi-Week" work schedule could impinge on religious freedom for Jamaicans, Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders addressed a religious liberty rally at the Meadowvale church in Kingston on April 26.
Seventh-day Adventist Church world leader, Pastor Jan Paulsen, met with President Joaquim Alberto Chissano of Mozambique April 29, and said the Adventist Church is committed to making a strong, positive contribution to Mozambican society.
"All of us are sinners, both those who are HIV-positive and those who are negative," said Dr. V. S. Wakaba, president of the Adventist Church in South Africa, in his opening address to 280 delegates at a conference organized by the church in the region, A
The city famed for the Solidarity movement--which led to Poland's democracy in the 1980s--is now the place where minority Christian churches and religious groups are under investigation by regional police.