The Inside Look: Adventist Church President Meets With Solomon Island Leaders
Paulsen also met with the 14-member Peace Monitoring Council, representing the ethnic groups and provinces of the Solomon Islands
Paulsen also met with the 14-member Peace Monitoring Council, representing the ethnic groups and provinces of the Solomon Islands
Meropi Gjika, who under the communist regime of Albania was forced to wait 50 years for baptism, died February 17
Speaking at a press conference on February 19, Pastor Jan Paulsen said that the church should play a role in convincing and influencing those who are still in possession of arms and stolen properties to return them to the authorities.
Lasting peace cannot be achieved through violence, "but by sitting down together to resolve differences."
"The Seventh-day Adventist Church joins its voice with those who protest this inhuman treatment of Reverend Atakov," says John Graz, public affairs and religious liberty director for the Adventist Church.
A new multimedia center at the Adventist Church headquarters in the Philippines will produce television programs to be carried throughout metropolitan Manila.