Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders--led by president Jan Paulsen--signed a temperance pledge April 16 at Spring Meeting, one of two business meetings of the church's international executive committee.
Supporting Seventh-day Adventist church members who are active in civil government, the International Association of Adventists in Public Affairs, or IAAPA, which was organized last year, is now establishing chapters in many nations.
Adventist Television Network is proceeding with implementation of its earlier announced plans to begin full-time satellite broadcasts.
The cause of religious freedom took a step forward last week with the re-introduction of the "Workplace Religious Freedom Act," or WRFA, in the United States Senate, the upper house of the Congress.
An intentional, multi-year evangelistic effort by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Dominican Republic finished its most recent phase with a two-week series of meetings in the capital city of Santo Domingo.
Local leaders have praised agricultural research at Northern Caribbean University, a Seventh-day Adventist institution, and want to fund more programs there.