More than 12,000 Hispanic Seventh-day Adventist lay people were on hand at the Los Angeles Convention Center July 4 to 6 for the launch of Un Million de Amigos, a campaign to take 1 million copies of a special issue of the Adventist magazine El Centinela
After a decade of work and financial sacrifice, Seventh-day Adventists in the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan now have a spiritual center of their own in the capital city of Tashkent.
After being held for eight days by one of Colombia's largest guerilla groups, Camilo Ramirez, a student of the Adventist University in Colombia, was released July 4, report church leaders in the region.
Representatives from the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International are participating in the 14th International AIDS Conference currently underway in Barcelona, Spain.
A United Nations report released July 2 on human development in Arab countries shows that countries lacking fundamental freedoms are also likely to suffer underdevelopment in key areas, including education, technology, and the economy.
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