The British government is proposing new religious-based schools that receive government funding will have to make at least 25 percent of their admissions available to "non-believing" students. Seventh-day Adventist educators say they have always welcomed
Civil unrest in Iraq--home to the cities of Nineveh, ancient Babylon, Ur of the Chaldees, and even the Biblical Garden of Eden--is taking a toll on the already-small Christian community. Many who can leave the country, including Seventh-day Adventist Chri
Twelve years ago the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Rwanda was thriving with some 285,000 members. But then came the Spring of 1994 and more than 800,000 people were murdered during the first 100 days of the Rwanda genocide, including an estimated 10,000
"With many of our new members surviving on less than 50 cents per day there is no way that local Adventist churches can support the salaries of teachers," said Pastor D. Ronald Watts, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Southern Asia.
"It used to be that even if you were qualified for a top position in the church as a woman you would not be considered at all," says Daisy Orion, an associate treasurer for the Seventh-day Adventist world church.
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