News in Brief
-- 'Let's Talk -- Again' Due Sept. 13 -- German-language Women's Devotional Published -- Albanian Suburb Has New Adventist Church
-- 'Let's Talk -- Again' Due Sept. 13 -- German-language Women's Devotional Published -- Albanian Suburb Has New Adventist Church
Just a few months after a Solomon Islands court acquitted the prime suspect in the murder of former business manager and missionary Lance Gersbach, the safety of employees at the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Atoifi hospital remains a concern.
Reminiscent of the Bible conferences of early Adventist history, a week-long second International Faith and Science Conference convened in Denver, Aug. 20 to 26, and concluded a three-year series of consultations initiated by Seventh-day Adventist world c
An explosion that destroyed a building in downtown Kabul Aug. 29, killing at least seven people, also damaged the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) office in Afghanistan and injured an ADRA staff member.
The just-concluded ACTS 2004 evangelistic series in the Rwandan capital yielded a large number of new Seventh-day Adventist church members - more than 10,000 at last count. However, that's not the only residual effect of the campaign.
"We must tell tyrants to respect religious freedom," declared Cardinal Paul Shan, speaking on Aug. 30 to a top-level conference on religious freedom held in Taipei, Taiwan. "While we cannot expect them to change overnight, over time things can improve," h