The ongoing use of children as young as eight years old as combat soldiers was protested at a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York Jan. 14 that included representation from the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church made an appeal to the Ghanaian Parliament Jan. 8 asking that the government recognize the church's Sabbath, or Saturday, day of worship when state assignments are being made, including examinations.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Egypt has reacted to comments made on Egyptian national television by Coptic Pope Shenouda III Jan. 7.
Including nuts in the diet has several benefits, according to Dr. Joan Sabate, chairman of the nutrition department at the Loma Linda University School of Public Health.
Seventh-day Adventists in Euro-Asia are taking steps to improve the church's ministry in major urban centers.
Two Seventh-day Adventist families are among villagers who survived a cyclone in Anuta and Tikopia, Solomon Islands, Dec. 28.