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Three Seventh-day Adventist organizations have joined a legal challenge against a National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) ruling that a religious college in Montana must allow its faculty to organize a labor union.

Religious Colleges Challenge Forced Unionization

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Southern Asia-Pacific region has voted to train and equip 100,000 lay people to lead out in expanding church membership.

100,000 Lay Leaders Planned for Southern Asia-Pacific

Ralph S. Watts Jr., president of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) for the past 16 years, has announced his intention to retire.

Ralph Watts Jr., pictured here in Kosovo last year, is retiring from his position as president of ADRA. Under his leadership for the past 16 years ADRA has grown to an international humanitarian agency operating in more than 120 countries.

President of Adventist Development and Relief Agency to Retire

The relationship between diet and cancer among Seventh-day Adventists will be the focus of the largest-ever health study to be conducted by Loma Linda University's school of public health.

Gary Fraser, director of the Center for Health Research at Loma Linda University's School of Public Health.

Largest-Ever Adventist Health Study to Explore Diet, Cancer Link

More than 300 recently trained Seventh-day Adventist lay workers, known as Global Mission pioneers, departed this week from Tula, Russia, to begin launching new churches in 12 former Soviet nations.

More than 300 Adventist pioneers honored at a ceremony near Tula for completing an intensive summer course in Biblical theology, church growth, and small-group dynamics. They are on their way to their home countries to begin organizing churches in areas where there are no Adventists.

Euro-Asia: Graduation Marks Evangelism Milestone

The outlook for religious tolerance around the world has grown bleaker in the past decade, as religion has increasingly been hijacked to further political goals, says Jonathan Gallagher, United Nations liaison for the Seventh-day Adventist world church.

Jonathan Gallagher, representative of the Adventist Church at the UN.

"Politics and Religion Make Disastrous Mix," Says Adventist Leader

More than 1,900 flood and landslide survivors on Nias Island, located in North Sumatra Province, Indonesia, are receiving food from the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA) office in Indonesia.

Landslides Devastate Indonesian Island

A religious group in Oregon, United States, that has financed an anti-Roman Catholic billboard is not affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, says a spokesperson for the Adventist Church.

Oregon Group Sponsors Anti-Catholic Billboard

News in Brief

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

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