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It takes more than words to make a difference in the lives of the 840 million people who go to bed hungry each night. It takes action, it takes protest. And that is just what the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), a humanitarian organization,

A Protest against poverty is the focus of the ADRA Booth at the 58th General Conference Session in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. [Photo: Volker Henning/ANN}

World Session: Adventists Challenge the World to Stop Devastating Poverty

It should come as no surprise that the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a Christian organization, consults the Lord before it makes any decision. But today as the group prepared to spend 10 days making decisions that range from electing church officers to re

Pastor Dwight Nelson [Photo: Melita Pujic/ANN]

World Session: Adventist Church Prays for God's Guidance

Under the theme of "Religious Liberty: Last-days Outreach," religious liberty leaders and experts met at the Andrews University -- a higher education institution of the  Seventh-day Adventist Church -- to inaugurate the new International Religious Liberty

Religious liberty leaders and experts met at the Andrews University to inaugurate the new International Religious Liberty Institute.

High-level Conference Inaugurates Religious Freedom Institute at Andrews University

Shawn Boonstra could not have known many years ago as a child when he was watching It Is Written on an old television set with his brother that one day he would take the helm of the international television ministry.

Shawn Boonstra, the newly-elected speaker/director of It Is Written -- an international broadcast ministry. [Photo: It Is Written]

Boonstra Takes Helm of the Ministry that Led Him to the Church

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) became one of the first humanitarian agencies to provide emergency supplies to 530 Uzbek refugees in Kyrgyzstan. They fled to Kyrgyzstan after violence broke out in the city of Andijan, Uzbekistan, on May

News Brief: ADRA Assists Uzbek Refugees in Kyrgyzstan

Swedish Seventh-day Adventists celebrated the 125th anniversary of the church's organization in their country with a five-day business meeting and spiritual session. The event was held in Ekebyholm, Sweden, and focused on ways to share the gospel story wi

Bjorn Ottesen, president of the Adventist Church in Sweden.

Sweden: Church at 125 years Commits to Evangelism

A newly-organized church designed for young people -- the first of its kind in South Korea -- is attracting teenagers to the Toegyewon Seventh-day Adventist Church, 6 miles (10 kilometers) Northeast of Seoul, the nation's capital. The church structure is

Korea: New Church for Teenagers in Toegyewon

With as many as 70,000 Adventists and friends expected in St. Louis during the 58th world church business session, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is explaining the sudden influx to the local community.

Advertising: Session Message Beamed to St. Louis Area

After standing empty for two years a former Roman Catholic church in Zeeland Province, Netherlands will be transformed into a Seventh-day Adventist congregation's home. Before the June 15 purchase, the 100 members of the Adventist church in Zeeland were t

The Church in Zeeland, Netherlands was founded 100 years ago but only recently found a permanent place to worship.

Netherlands: Church Members Save for Decades to Purchase Church Building

Britain: Church President Says Religious Hatred Bill May Affect Religious Freedom

A bill to outlaw 'Incitement to Religious Hatred' in Britain may affect freedom of speech among religions, says Cecil Perry, president of the Adventist Church in Britain.

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The upcoming world Session of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, June 30 to July 9, will focus not just on business items, but will also creatively look at how to answer several pressing issues for the nearly 14 million-strong movement.

Jan Paulsen, president of the Adventist world church is encouraging leaders at the upcoming business meeting in St. Louis to find creative solutions to church issues.

Business Sessions to Take a 'Creative' Approach to Pressing Challenges

Nearly 80,000 children under the age of five in Yemen will never know the ruthlessness of polio thanks to a vaccination campaign led by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in that country. The disease, which mostly affects young children, i

Nagi Khalil, director of ADRA in Yemen demonstrates how to give the polio vaccine. [Photo: ADRA]

Yemen: ADRA Works to Stamp Out Polio

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