The outlook for religious tolerance around the world has grown bleaker in the past decade, as religion has increasingly been hijacked to further political goals, says Jonathan Gallagher, United Nations liaison for the Seventh-day Adventist world church.
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.
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