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Nine countries--Burma, China, Iran, Iraq, Laos, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Turkmenistan--are among the world's worst religious-freedom violators, according to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Adventist Church spokesperson for religious freedom John Graz, left, speaks as the Commission on International Religious Freedom releases their annual report. Graz serves as the secretary general of the International Religious Liberty Association and director of the Seventh-day Adventist Church&#8217;s public affairs and religious liberty department.

Report Names World's Worst Religious-Freedom Offenders

Tobacco companies continue to buy advertising space in youth-oriented magazines, marketing cigarettes to kids in the United States in violation of a 1998 agreement, according to a report published in the August 16 edition of The New England Journal of Med

DeWitt Williams, health ministries director for the church in North America, is most concerned for youth who he says are the main targets of tobacco companies. Williams points out that cigarettes are responsible for more deaths than all illegal drugs combined.

Tobacco Companies Still Marketing to Kids

Sir Silas Atopare, Governor General of Papua New Guinea, visited with Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders and members during his recent visit to the Philippines.

Governor General Sir Silas Atopare was flanked by Philippine Ambassador to Papua New Guinea Bien Tejano (left) and Pastor Violeto Bocala, president of the church in the Southern Asia-Pacific region (right) as he entered the Southern Asia-Pacific region office of the Seventh-day Adventists.

Papua New Guinea Governor General Visits Filipino Adventists

Seventh-day Adventists in the central African country of Burundi are looking for "souls' salvation" not "political power," said a church spokesperson last week.

Adventists in Burundi Committed to Peace, Says Leader

Bold Batsukh was ordained August 4, becoming the first Mongolian to enter the Seventh-day Adventist Church ministry. The ordination service took place at the country's first-ever Adventist camp meeting, held August 1 to 6 at the Selenge Campground near Er

Bold Batsukh is the first Adventist pastor in Mongolia. He and his wife Otguh moved in August 1999 to start a new church in the city of Darhan, an industrial center with a population of 80,000.

First Mongolian Adventist Pastor Ordained

Elderly patients who experience a religious crisis while ill are at increased risk of dying, according to the results of a study published in the August 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

Religious Doubt Can Have Negative Health Impact, Say Researchers

Adventist News Network has launched a headline syndication feature that will make it easier for other Web sites to display regularly updated Adventist news headlines.

Adventist News Network Launches Headline Syndication

A group of 1,500 Seventh-day Adventist lay people met in Sacramento, California, United States, August 8 to 11, to explore ways of expanding lay involvement in humanitarian and mission work around the world.

Calvin Rock, a vice president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church, speaks to approximately 3,400 people Sabbath morning at the Sacramento Convention Center.

Adventist Laity Make Mission "Top Priority"

Civil rights and religious leaders met with United States Senator Edward Kennedy August 2 to urge his support for the Workplace Religious Freedom Act (WFRA).

James Standish, Executive Director of the North American Religious Liberty Association.

Senator Expresses Support for U.S. Workplace Religious Freedom Law

A Seventh-day Adventist women's leader has welcomed the recent increase in international discussion about human trafficking, an increase prompted by the July release of the U.S. State Department's "Trafficking in Persons Report."

Ardis Stenbakken, women&#8217;s ministries director for the Adventist Church.

Human Trafficking An International Scandal, Says Adventist Leader

A 69-year-old Seventh-day Adventist Church building in Da Nang, Vietnam, was torn down July 17 by government officials who want to build a school on the site.

Adventist Church Building in Vietnam Destroyed

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