The Faith-Based Initiatives bill, a proposed law aimed at expanding federal government funding of faith-based welfare programs, has passed its first legislative hurdle, gaining approval of the United States House of Representatives July 20 by a vote of 23
Signs of the Times, Japan's longest running Christian magazine, celebrated its 100th anniversary June 30.
Seventh-day Adventist health professionals in Angola are searching for more effective ways to counter current health challenges in African society, including the AIDS epidemic, drug and alcohol addictions, and malnutrition.
The Russian postal service has issued a stamp portraying the Seventh-day Adventist church building in Ryazan, Russia.
Anglicans and Evangelical Lutherans in Canada have signed an agreement of full communion, allowing for mutual recognition of each denomination's clergy and sacraments.
Twenty students from Mission College in Thailand take an hour-long trip every other week to a Buddhist wat, or temple compound, in the town of Lopbury where they visit 50 to 75 AIDS patients at a hospice set up by monks.