Nine countries--Burma, China, Iran, Iraq, Laos, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Turkmenistan--are among the world's worst religious-freedom violators, according to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
More than 1,900 flood and landslide survivors on Nias Island, located in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia, are receiving food from the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA) office in Indonesia.
Elderly patients who experience a religious crisis while ill are at increased risk of dying, according to the results of a study published in the August 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
A group of 1,500 Seventh-day Adventist lay people met in Sacramento, California, United States, August 8 to 11, to explore ways of expanding lay involvement in humanitarian and mission work around the world.
Adventist News Network has launched a headline syndication feature that will make it easier for other Web sites to display regularly updated Adventist news headlines.
Civil rights and religious leaders met with United States Senator Edward Kennedy August 2 to urge his support for the Workplace Religious Freedom Act (WFRA).