Religious intolerance and religious extremism are on the rise, according to the 2001 Religious Freedom World Report to be released later this month by the public affairs and religious liberty department of the Seventh-day Adventist world church.
Dr. Marvin Anderson resigned August 29 as president of Southwestern Adventist University (SWAU), a position he has held for the past 17 years.
Religiously active youth have higher levels of self-esteem than their counterparts who are not religious, according to a study presented at the American Psychological Association annual convention August 24.
Three Seventh-day Adventist organizations have joined a legal challenge against a National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) ruling that a religious college in Montana must allow its faculty to organize a labor union.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Southern Asia-Pacific region has voted to train and equip 100,000 lay people to lead out in expanding church membership.
Ralph S. Watts Jr., president of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) for the past 16 years, has announced his intention to retire.