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Known all over Zimbabwe and much of Africa for stopping rival teams from scoring, the Amazulu football (soccer) team have themselves been stopped in their tracks. The team's equally well-known policy of not playing on Saturdays -- the Bible Sabbath for te

The Amazulu, added to a long list of wins with their first Premier Soccer League championship in 2004.

Zimbabwe: Soccer Team Ousted for Refusing to Play on Saturdays

The major problem with United States foreign policy, said Dr. Tom Farr, former director of the Office of International Religious Freedom in the U.S. Department of State, is that "we're not taking religion as seriously as we should."

Drs. John Graz, Tom Farr and James Standish discuss how religious freedom ican be repressed in a secular society.

United States: Ex-State Department Official Claims Religion 'Still Missing' in Foreign Policy

The Seventh-day Adventist message of hope and salvation will reach even more people in West and Central Africa with the opening of a new radio studio that will produce programming in the Fulfulde language spoken by the Fulani people who live in the Sahel

AN AWR listener tells Cameroon studio producer Louis Bakari how he came to the Adventist Church through radio.

Cameroon: New Radio Studio to Reach Africa's Fulani People in Their Language

Pakistan -- More people may die of hunger, cold and injuries from the recent earthquake that rocked Pakistan than were killed in the initial quake itself, relief officials say. The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) continues to assist earthqu

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Leaders of a wide range of Christian churches met in Geneva, Switzerland, for a series of consultations Oct. 16 to 22. The Conference of Secretaries of the Christian World Communions has met annually for some 40 years, providing a venue for frank and open

Leaders of the Christian World Communions at their recent meeting. Dr. John Graz, center, is secretary of this multi-church organization. [CWC Photo]

Switzerland: Christian Leaders Meet,  HIV/AIDS a Major Focus

In a breakthrough for religious freedom in Georgia, a new organization dedicated to promoting this fundamental human right was launched Oct. 23.

Leaders from various segments of Georgian society meet to inaugurate the country's first organization for religious liberty.

Republic of Georgia: New Religious Freedom Initiative Launched

When you can't fill out a voting ballot, read a bed time story to your child, apply for a better job, or even understand street signs life can be difficult to navigate. This is what each day is like for the approximately 860 million people worldwide who d

Students in Peru hold up their "Learning is Living" textbooks. [Photos: Courtesy of the Adventist Church in South America]

South America: Learning to Read Brings Many to Jesus

Sometimes it is the end of a journey that lets you see where you've been. The recent passing of Rosa Parks has had that effect on many in the United States and around the world. Among those who reminisced about the historic action of this humble woman and

A scene from the baptismal pool in 1954, the year before the bus boycott and when Webb and Smith were baptized.

ANN Perspective: Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Pioneer, Touched Adventist Lives in Her City

For the fourth time in two years, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in central Baghdad was damaged as a result of bomb blasts. The Oct. 24 explosions were aimed at the Palestine Hotel, located 802.2 feet (250 meters) from the church building.

BEFORE THE WAR: The Seventh-day Adventist church in Baghdad, Iraq, in a file photo taken before the 2003 war. [ANN file photo]

Iraq: Insurgent Blasts Damage Baghdad Church

Bombing Condemned -- The Oct. 1 bombing of a tourist area in Indonesia drew condemnation from the South Pacific region of the Adventist church. "It is shocking to have to respond to another bombing, following the deaths of so many people in London earlier

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The 12 high school seniors felt so strongly that Saturday was the Sabbath -- a day of worship and rest -- that they refused to take their government exams on that day no matter what the consequences were. The students, who attended Cambodia Adventist Scho

Cambodia: Firm on Principles, Adventist School is a Showcase of Success

A case involving a United States Postal Service (USPS) employee who was not allowed Saturdays off for his day of rest and worship was settled Oct. 11 when the Postal Service awarded him U.S. $65,000 for lost wages and grievances endured, and granted him h

United States: Postal Employee Awarded His Day of Rest, Wages Lost

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