Top-level government meetings and a large "Festival of Religious Liberty" focused attention on issues of religious liberty for the Caribbean, reports Dr. John Graz, director of public affairs and religious liberty for Seventh-day Adventist Church.
A new approach to evangelistic outreach has left church leaders and members in Minnesota, United States, struggling to keep up with a flood of requests for Bible studies.
A Seventh-day Adventist Church member, evicted from her home in Turkmenabad, Turkmenistan, for holding religious gatherings, is making her way to Siberia, Russia, to stay with relatives while she considers her future.
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency has established an office in Kabul, Afghanistan to begin meeting the needs with the country from a central location.
A front street shop window of the Polish Bible Society in the center of Warsaw displays copies of a new translation of the Scriptures which took some 30 translators representing 11 Christian denominations 6 years to translate.
Four churches were bombed including an Adventist church in the eastern Indonesian province of Sulawesi, Indonesia December 31.