The Seventh-day Adventist Church has launched a new stop-smoking program aimed at cutting rates of smoking among women. "For the first time, rates of smoking among women are drawing equal to those of men," says Ardis Stenbakken, Women's Ministries directo
Citing religious freedom violations in Turkmenistan, other Central Asian states, and China, Seventh-day Adventists protested to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland.
Protestant churches, including the Seventh-day Adventist, Baptist, and Lutheran denominations, are traditional religions in Russia and should be treated equally with other faiths, says regional government official V. Lukovnikov.
Heavy rainfall in the usually dry region of Altiplano, Bolivia, has caused widespread flooding, destroying homes and leaving thousands of people without adequate shelter or food.
Five Seventh-day Adventist professional communicators were honored April 5 at an awards breakfast held at the Adventist Church world headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Thousands of Adventist youth call for an end to school and community violence.