Religious denominations in Africa are being told to emulate Seventh-day Adventist churches as models "of health and healing and treatment" for HIV/AIDS patients, according to the World Health Organization.
Protecting Sabbath-keepers and other religious minorities may become more hazardous if the American Civil Liberties Union, normally a defender of such rights, gets its way.
Even a quick look at the Web site of the Polish Seventh-day Adventist Church suggests that music and church life seem inseparable.
With 2004 being the Year of Evangelism for the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church, children at the Port Macquarie, New South Wales, congregation are showing the way.
A pastor's desire to help Adventists in Sayanogorsk, a city in the central Asian republic of Tuva, ended tragically with the mid-winter deaths of the pastor, a member of his congregation and her daughter.
The Federal Security Service and local police are investigating an act of anti-Semitic vandalism following an attack on the Zaokski Theological Seminary, a Seventh-day Adventist institution, June 17.