Some 170 pastors and chaplains working in Myanmar and Indonesia received training in crisis intervention in two separate venues between Aug. 31 and Sept. 7. The first seminar was held in conjunction with the Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries' retreat at an
At a time when world leaders, including U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, are focusing their attention on a looming genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, a soft-spoken Seventh-day Adventist pastor, Carl Wilkens, told an audience of congressional staffe
More than 40 young adults from Seventh-day Adventist churches in Lithuania, Northern Ireland and Wales recently took part in "Christian Youth Days -- Kedainiai 2004." Kedainiai, a city situated in the center of Lithuania, is an industrial, agricultural an
Ten years after a barbaric genocide swept through this nation, the process of reconciliation and rebuilding continues. For Seventh-day Adventist Church members -- who comprise one out of every 21 people in Rwanda -- that includes the "resurrection" of a c
Hurricane Ivan's impact on Grenada included the deaths of two Seventh-day Adventist church members, looting of the local church headquarters, and the destruction of the church's two schools and half of its 37 church buildings. The Seventh-day Adventist Ch
A car packed with an estimated 330 pounds (150 kilograms) of dynamite was detonated outside the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Baghdad late Friday night Sept. 10. While there were no services in progress at the time, a guard was present on the church com