More than 3,000 Seventh-day Adventist lay members registered for the Festival of the Laity in Orlando, Florida, this past week, and at least twice that number attended the closing worship services held on April 27.
The prevailing mood among American teens has shifted dramatically in the past half-decade to a more "upbeat, optimistic and self-reliant perspective," according to research from the Barna Research Group.
The small Seventh-day Adventist community in the western African country of Equatorial Guinea grew by more than 20 percent during March following an evangelistic series lead by volunteers from Montemorelos, Mexico.
A recently released report warns that the rapid spread of Sharia-or Islamic law-in Nigeria could provoke further inter-religious conflict.
Two students from the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Zaoksky Theological Seminary were attacked by a gang of 15 young people April 16 while waiting on a train platform.
A practical plan for Seventh-day Adventist lay ministries and church leaders to better combine efforts in cross-cultural mission was one of the key results of the Cross-cultural Mission Conference held April 19 to 21 at Adventist world headquarters, Silve