The life and work of Kaare Lund, slain country director for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency office in Norway, was remembered at a funeral service by 700 attendees March 21.
Several nations that regularly violate religious freedoms are "missing in action" from a new U.S. State Department list, an omission that raises concern among Seventh-day Adventist Church religious liberty advocates.
Four defectors from North Korea were baptized March 11 in Seoul, one of the largest such groups to be received into the Seventh-day Adventist Church since the 1950-1953 war, which split the peninsula.
Reconciliation and tolerance are at the top of the agenda for youth programs in the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Rwanda. This current emphasis comes in response to the growth in Adventist Church membership since the 1994 genocide.
Following a march through downtown Lima of hundreds of people and 11 faith group leaders, who delivered 40,000 letters to congressional leaders, the Peruvian congress approved an amendment to the national constitution that recognizes all faiths.
The bombing of Baghdad did not deter members of the local Seventh-day Adventist Church from attending weekly worship services on Saturday, the Sabbath, or from praying for peace.