Religious intolerance and religious extremism are on the rise, according to the 2001 Religious Freedom World Report to be released later this month by the public affairs and religious liberty department of the Seventh-day Adventist world church.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Southern Asia-Pacific region has voted to train and equip 100,000 lay people to lead out in expanding church membership.
More than 300 recently trained Seventh-day Adventist lay workers, known as Global Mission pioneers, departed this week from Tula, Russia, to begin launching new churches in 12 former Soviet nations.
The relationship between diet and cancer among Seventh-day Adventists will be the focus of the largest-ever health study to be conducted by Loma Linda University's school of public health.
Ralph S. Watts Jr., president of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) for the past 16 years, has announced his intention to retire.
The outlook for religious tolerance around the world has grown bleaker in the past decade, as religion has increasingly been hijacked to further political goals, says Jonathan Gallagher, United Nations liaison for the Seventh-day Adventist world church.