For the first time, 2,000 young people from 15 South Pacific nations gathered outside Australia for a regional youth congress, which was opened Dec. 30 by the Hon. Laisenia Qarase, Prime Minister of Fiji.
In a world rocked by natural disasters and by war, members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church around the world have varying perspectives on the year now ending.
In a country that had no Seventh-day Adventist church members just 10 years ago, hundreds attended a series of evangelistic meetings in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Dec. 27. This is believed to be the largest Adventist outreach initiative ever held in the Sout
The weekly ANN Bulletin will not be e-mailed on Jan. 4, 2005, due to the New Year's holiday. Breaking news stories will be posted as available, and the weekly e-mail is expected to resume on Jan. 11, 2005.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church now numbers 13.4 million baptized members, with more than 25 million people attending weekly worship worldwide. The church grew by nearly one million members worldwide during the year, a period in which members offered 1,0
Aboriginal people in Australia will soon enjoy a new church building, and funds to continue outreach in big cities have been allocated.