Why forbidding what's culturally different threatens religious liberty

A ban on the burqa in France threatens religious liberty, says John Graz, director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Here, Graz in Washington, D.C. in April. [ANN file photo]

Is France going too far with its burqa ban?

Yoselin Perez Ramirez, communication major, was baptized in November

Montemorelos University student Yoselin L. Perez Ramirez, 20, a second-year visual communications major, died May 29 of gunshot wounds after an attempted kidnapping just minutes from the Adventist school's campus. [photo courtesy Inter-America Division]

In Mexico, student killed in kidnapping attempt near Adventist university

More than 350 young Adventists attended the first Adventist youth rally in Nepal, held in Banepa, near the capital Kathmandu. [photos: Bhaju Ram Shrestha]

In Nepal, youth revival meeting is denomination's first

Prime Minister commends church's outreach, introduces bill

Bahamas' Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham introduces a bill recognizing the Adventist Church's newly established Atlantic Caribbean Union Mission as a legal entity in the island nation. Ingraham commended church's ministry and outreach during the May 9 parliament meeting. [photo courtesy Bahamas Information Services]

In Bahamas, Parliament recognizes new Adventist administrative headquarters

Four thousand pastors hear emphasis on spiritual preparation

Ted N. C. Wilson, president of the Adventist world church, opens the South American Division's ministerial training event, Tuesday, May 24, in Foz do Iguacu, Paraná, Brazil. A record 4,000 pastors from the division territory are attending this week's meeting. [photo: Leônidas Guedes]

Wilson opens historic South American Division Ministerial Council

New review committee follows 2010 Session action to 'strengthen' church's interpretation of origins

Merging the church's fundamental belief on creation with the recently endorsed Reaffirmation of Creation statement will clarify the denomination's understanding of origins, said Adventist theologian Angel Rodriguez. Here, Rodriguez speaks at GC Session last year, just before delegates voted to endorse the statement. [photo: Gerry Chudleigh]

Further definition on tap for Adventist fundamental belief on creation

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Further definition on tap for Adventist fundamental belief on creation

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Is France going too far with its burqa ban?

In Mexico, student killed in kidnapping attempt near Adventist university

In Nepal, youth revival meeting is denomination's first

In Bahamas, Parliament recognizes new Adventist administrative headquarters

Wilson opens historic South American Division Ministerial Council

Further definition on tap for Adventist fundamental belief on creation