In a gathering of the church's executive committee, pastor Jan Paulsen, world church president, challenges church leaders and members to focus more deliberately on the three strategic values of the world church: Unity, Growth, and Quality of Life.
Three pieces of legislation currently being considered by the Russian parliament pose "definite challenges to religious freedom in Russia," said John Graz of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's religious liberty department during an interview with Radio Fr
The Seventh-day Adventist Church needs to direct more resources and attention to the most-populated and poorest region of the world, according to the 10/40 Window Committee, which met April 14 at the Adventist Church's world headquarters in Silver Spring,
A contemporary adaptation of the book The Desire of Ages, released by Pacific Press last month, aims to make Ellen White's biography of Jesus more accessible to a new generation of readers.
A statement on behalf of the Seventh-day Adventist Church to the United Nations Commission to Human Rights on April 9 deplored the "ever-increasing rise in religious intolerance, conflict and violence," and protested persecution of religious minorities.
The Global Mission Operations Committee last week approved more than 1 million dollars to help fund 732 projects to start new Seventh-day Adventist congregations around the world.