Description: PARL at the meeting of experts on religious freedom in October 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo provided by PARL).
Featured: Champions of Freedom
January 21, 2023, was Religious Liberty Day. A day celebrating the freedom to worship and practice one's faith. Why should this matter to the Seventh-day Adventist Church?
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![Students enrolled in the cardiopulmonary science program at Antillean Adventist University in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, practice in the simulation center. [Photo: Comunicaciones Antillean]](https://cdn.adventistcontent.org/images/5df200974469ba078555eb4c/b6b0a4329bc07f12098554ce86b7074a3a596062/25x/8JT1674724241018.jpg)
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