Vandals have inflicted serious damages, including broken windows and arson fire, to the Seventh-day Adventist Church's premises in Arhus, Denmark, which houses the local church, the Danish Bible Correspondence School and a media center.
An apparent misappropriation of funds and fraudulent accounting was discovered at WGTS-FM 91.9, a Christian radio station affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Columbia Union College.
The climate of religious freedom is not really getting better, says Dr. John Graz, director of public affairs and religious liberty for the Seventh-day Adventist Church worldwide.
The recent opening of the first Seventh-day Adventist publishing house in Israel, "Chaim Veshalom," which is Hebrew for "Life and Peace," marked a milestone for the church, which has ministered in Israel for 107 years.
A fire that destroyed a Seventh-day Adventist Church in the city of Saransk, Republic of Mordovia, east of Moscow, may have been started for reasons of religious prejudice, according to church sources in Moscow.
A task force of 20 Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders assembled here Feb. 6 to plot strategy and implementation for the "Sow 1 Billion" initiative that will place one thousand million pieces of literature in homes and hands around the world by the end o