More than 20,000 Seventh-day Adventists from central Angola gathered in the city of Huambo April 26 to meet with Pastor Jan Paulsen, president of the Adventist world church, and Pastor Matthew Bediako, executive secretary for the world church.
In October 2002, for the first time in 30 years, leaders of Native American tribes--North America's original inhabitants--in New York State met together at a planning session.
The physical condition of Josip Tikvicki, a Seventh-day Adventist pastor, worsened last Sunday, April 27, when he "collapsed from pain and stress inflicted on his body," according to Seventh-day Adventist Church sources in Belgrade, Serbia.
The continuing global crisis of HIV/AIDS is prompting a continuing response from the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
REGIONAL LEADERS ELECTED: Two new regional presidents of the Seventh-day Adventist Church were elected April 17, 2003, during Spring Meeting, a two-day meeting of the church’s executive committee. Albert Gulfan will become president of the church in the Southern Asia-Pacific region, based in Sila...
Seventh-day Adventist pastor Josip Tikvicki was seriously beaten April 15 in front of the Adventist Church in the city of Zrenjanin, 40 miles (65 km) northeast of the Serbian capital, Belgrade.