Seventh-day Adventists in the Baltic nation of Latvia are on the verge of full legal status as an agreement between the church and the Latvian government is signed and waiting approval from the Latvian parliament, the Saeima.
As many as 170 delegates from around the world are expected to attend the Seventh-day Adventist Church's first Global Internet Evangelism Forum, to be held in Silver Spring, Maryland, Sept. 30 to Oct. 3, 2004.
On June 5 the history of Seventh-day Adventism in Cuba added yet another record. More than 2,500 participants of the celebration of their church's centennial will remember it as the second-hottest day in the recorded history of temperature in Havana.
Bringing the good news of the gospel to others is always a personal matter, but for Ted N.C. Wilson, a vice president of the world church, a three-week series of lectures in Derry, Northern Ireland, was particularly close to his heart.
Two days of rioting in the streets surrounding Karachi Adventist Hospital in this Pakistani seaport city did not touch the campus of the facility, according to administrators.
Época, a major Brazilian newsweekly, recently devoted four pages to the subject of teaching creationism in the state of Rio de Janeiro, at the insistence of Governor Roshina Garotinho.