The Seventh-day Adventist Church has launched a new stop-smoking program aimed at cutting rates of smoking among women. "For the first time, rates of smoking among women are drawing equal to those of men," says Ardis Stenbakken, Women's Ministries directo
Citing religious freedom violations in Turkmenistan, other Central Asian states, and China, Seventh-day Adventists protested to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland.
Heavy rainfall in the usually dry region of Altiplano, Bolivia, has caused widespread flooding, destroying homes and leaving thousands of people without adequate shelter or food.
Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders from around the world will meet at the Church's General Conference headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, April 18 and 19, to review progress, discuss challenges, and to chart future plans for the Adventist Church.
A series of conversations between representatives of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches took place April 1 to 7 in Jongny sur Vevey, Switzerland.
More than 120 Adventist women in ministry met April 1 to 4 for a three-day retreat sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America.