Seventh-day Adventists in Belarus spent last weekend fasting and praying in response to a proposed religion law that, if passed, threatens to close down Adventist church activity in this eastern European country.
More than 800 people gathered in Jerusalem on Saturday, June 15, for a spiritual assembly, the largest-ever Seventh-day Adventist event in Israel.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Albania last month launched its first magazine, according to John Arthur, publishing director for the Adventist Church in the Trans-European region.
The full executive committee of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Eastern Africa met in late May for the last time before a significant realignment of church territory on the African continent takes effect January 2003.
Seventh-day Adventist, Deborah Moorhead, 34, and her husband, Roby Jan, 45, were sentenced on June 13 to five years' jail for the manslaughter of their six-month-old son, Caleb, for failing to provide the basic necessities of life. Caleb died of complicat
Seventh-day Adventist youth leaders in Brazil have distributed a 3.5-ton shipment from the Brazilian Bible Society of a special youth-oriented translation of the Bible.