A group of 1,500 Seventh-day Adventist lay people met in Sacramento, California, United States, August 8 to 11, to explore ways of expanding lay involvement in humanitarian and mission work around the world.
Civil rights and religious leaders met with United States Senator Edward Kennedy August 2 to urge his support for the Workplace Religious Freedom Act (WFRA).
A Seventh-day Adventist women's leader has welcomed the recent increase in international discussion about human trafficking, an increase prompted by the July release of the U.S. State Department's "Trafficking in Persons Report."
A 69-year-old Seventh-day Adventist Church building in Da Nang, Vietnam, was torn down July 17 by government officials who want to build a school on the site.
Adventist World Radio (AWR) began shortwave broadcasts from leased facilities in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on August 1. The super station provides AWR with better signal coverage to central and southern Asia than has yet been achieved from its othe
High winds and a strong storm forced the evacuation of 1,700 participants in the Friedensau Seventh-day Adventist Camporee, Germany, during the evening of July 31.