Pastor Jan Paulsen, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church worldwide, says the church has a responsibility to help new believers grow in their faith by providing them with ongoing spiritual support and a place to worship.
Seventh-day Adventists have given their hospital at Wabag in Papua New Guinea to the local Engan community.
Proposals initiated by the US Commission on International Freedom to address the ongoing persecution of religious minorities in Turkmenistan brought reaction from the Seventh-day Adventist Church's department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty.
Seventh-day Adventist leaders in North America are urging the federal and state governments in the United States to halt scheduled executions in cases where the fairness of the legal process can be called into question.
The role of religion in current political and legal processes will be the focus of a new graduate degree program to be offered by Andrews University, a Seventh-day Adventist institution located in Michigan, United States.
"Women need to be more involved in the life of the church," says Ardis Stenbakken, director of women's ministries for the Seventh-day Adventist world church, speaking out on International Women's day, designated March 8 by the United Nations, and celebrat