Replaces retiring Evans; will oversee church's Australia, New Zealand and island nations region

Oliver nominated as new president for church's South Pacific Division

Partnership expected to rehabilitate region's treatment facilities

Following a three-month evaluation, church health officials in the South Pacific determined some 70 percent of the region’s clinics are so under-supplied that staff don’t have medical equipment to check blood pressure.

Adopt a Clinic program to team churches with South Pacific clinics

Tanzania: Two Adventist leaders die in traffic collision; France: Adventist healthcare professionals address care among Muslims; Peru: Nation's first lady visits ADRA office; Netherlands: Church growing, adapting to country's multicultrual makeup; South K

Walter Britton, ADRA Peru country director, with Pilar Nores de Garcia, the first lady of Peru, during her visit to the ADRA Peru headquarters in Lima, last month. [photo: courtesy ADRA]

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When church officials and guests joined a 500-strong crowd for the opening of a new house of worship in Buey Arriba, it was Raul Alvarez who received the loudest applause.

A Cuban woman reads her Bible at Havana's Seventh-day Adventist Vibora Church, where Paulsen commended the "commitment and spirituality" of Cuban Adventists during Sabbath worship service November 3. Cuba joins more than three dozen other countries in Inter-America to make up the church's largest world region. [photo: Rajmund Dabrowski/ANN]

Cuba: Standing room only for 'House of Light' dedication; world church president visits island

Protestant reformer depicted alongside devil in citywide ad campaign

Posters criticizing Protestant leader Martin Luther were displayed throughout Lublin, Poland, to advertise an organization that seeks to establish a "Catholic state" within Poland. It is illegal to criticize another religion in Poland, Adventist church leaders said.

Polish Adventists join other Protestants in denouncing posters attacking Luther

ADRA update: California wildfire, Caribbean flooding survivors to receive aid, United States: Loma Linda physician joins commission on cancer

Dr. Sharmila Roy-Chowdhury was appointed to the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons. [photo: courtesy Loma Linda University Medical Center]

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Oliver nominated as new president for church's South Pacific Division

Adopt a Clinic program to team churches with South Pacific clinics

Adventists around the world

Cuba: Standing room only for 'House of Light' dedication; world church president visits island

Polish Adventists join other Protestants in denouncing posters attacking Luther

Adventists around the world