More than 7,500 young people packed up their sleeping bags and tents to attend this year's master guide camporee events that took place during the month of April throughout several territories of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Inter-American Division,
The cause of religious freedom was given a thumbs-up at the United Nations with a "special consultative status" granted May 1 to the International Religious Liberty Association.
Youth leaders from the Adventist Church's mid-Atlantic region hosted a Youth Congress in the city of Baltimore, April 23 to 26, 2003.
Expressing concern that a pending "Flexi-Week" work schedule could impinge on religious freedom for Jamaicans, Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders addressed a religious liberty rally at the Meadowvale church in Kingston on April 26.
Seventh-day Adventist Church world leader, Pastor Jan Paulsen, met with President Joaquim Alberto Chissano of Mozambique April 29, and said the Adventist Church is committed to making a strong, positive contribution to Mozambican society.
"All of us are sinners, both those who are HIV-positive and those who are negative," said Dr. V. S. Wakaba, president of the Adventist Church in South Africa, in his opening address to 280 delegates at a conference organized by the church in the region, A