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.
Tobacco companies continue to buy advertising space in youth-oriented magazines, marketing cigarettes to kids in the United States in violation of a 1998 agreement, according to a report published in the August 16 edition of The New England Journal of Med
Sir Silas Atopare, Governor General of Papua New Guinea, visited with Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders and members during his recent visit to the Philippines.
Seventh-day Adventists in the central African country of Burundi are looking for "souls' salvation" not "political power," said a church spokesperson last week.
Bold Batsukh was ordained August 4, becoming the first Mongolian to enter the Seventh-day Adventist Church ministry. The ordination service took place at the country's first-ever Adventist camp meeting, held August 1 to 6 at the Selenge Campground near Er
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.