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Twelve months after its launch, an ambitious initiative to "blanket the world with Bible studies" is yielding exciting results, but also some challenges, according to Bettina Krause, coordinator of Sow 1 Billion. The task of distributing hundreds of milli

HOPE IN JAPAN: Tadashi Yamaji, editor at the Japan Publishing House, with the 14 newspapers in which Sow 1 Billion ads ran, along with copies of Sow 1 Billion invitations and posters. [ANN Photo]

World Church: Sow 1 Billion Yields Results, Challenges

Sixty years after the Nazi genocide where in Hungary alone 450,000 Jews were killed, the memory of a brave pastor has been recalled in a feature article in The Weekend Australian newspaper.

Clara Pongrass, daughter of Pastor Michnay, is a Seventh-day Adventist church member in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She placed a plaque commemorating her's father's actions in the Sydney Jewish Museum. [Photo: Australian Record]

Australia: Pastor Recognized As Holocaust Hero

Just a few months after a Solomon Islands court acquitted the prime suspect in the murder of former business manager and missionary Lance Gersbach, the safety of employees at the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Atoifi hospital remains a concern.

Adventist Church South Pacific president Pastor Laurie Evans at the opening of a  new police station at Atoifi, Malaita, Solomon Islands. Two officers from the Australian-led regional intervention force and one Solomon Islander are assigned to the station. An agreement the church has signed with the Australian Federal Police will guarantee a police presence on the campus for the next eight years. [Photo: ANN South Pacific]

South Pacific: Church Regional President Reviews Mission Hospital's Future

-- 'Let's Talk -- Again' Due Sept. 13
-- German-language Women's Devotional Published
-- Albanian Suburb Has New Adventist Church

TRANSFORMED INTO CHURCH: Small home in Ali Demi, a suburb of Tirana, Albania, is now a Seventh-day Adventist Church. (See last news brief.) [Photo by Pastor Sretko Kuburic

News in Brief

The just-concluded ACTS 2004 evangelistic series in the Rwandan capital yielded a large number of new Seventh-day Adventist church members - more than 10,000 at last count. However, that's not the only residual effect of the campaign.

BEAM ME UP: Satellite station set up near Remera Seventh-day Adventist Church took the ACTS 2004 meetings across the African continent. [Photo: Palmer Halvorson]

Rwanda: In Rebuilt Adventist Church, Satellite Series Yields 10,000 Baptisms

"We must tell tyrants to respect religious freedom," declared Cardinal Paul Shan, speaking on Aug. 30 to a top-level conference on religious freedom held in Taipei, Taiwan. "While we cannot expect them to change overnight, over time things can improve," h

DELEGATES: International Religious Liberty Association Vice President Eugene Hsu (second from left, first row) and IRLA Secretary-General Dr. John R. Graz (fourth from left, first row) are among those attending the IRLA meeting in Taipei, Taiwan. [IRLA Photo]

Taiwan: Catholic Cardinal Addresses International Religious Freedom Conference

Reminiscent of the Bible conferences of early Adventist history, a week-long second International Faith and Science Conference convened in Denver, Aug. 20 to 26, and concluded a three-year series of consultations initiated by Seventh-day Adventist world c

Pastor Lowell Cooper addresses conference. [Photo: Ray Dabrowski]

World Church: International Faith and Science Conference Ends with 'Affirmation of Creation'

An explosion that destroyed a building in downtown Kabul Aug. 29, killing at least seven people, also damaged the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) office in Afghanistan and injured an ADRA staff member.

EDUCATION IN ACTION: ADRA's work in Afghanistan includes helping to educate the nation's youth. [Photo: Karla
Leitzke/ADRA Afghanistan]

Afghanistan: ADRA Worker Injured, Office Damaged In Deadly Bombing

Five medical students attending the American University of the Caribbean will be able to observe the Biblical Sabbath, or Saturday, as their day of worship while continuing their education, the Court of First Instance ruled on Aug. 20

HAPPY STUDENT: Sung Cho (foreground), a Seventh-day Adventist and student at the American University of the Caribbean medical school in St. Maarten, Netherlands Antillies, is one of those whose rights were honored when a local court ordered the medical school to make its "best efforts" to schedule exams on weekdays, and not the Sabbath, or Saturday. [Photo: Miling Borge]

Netherlands Antilles: St. Maarten Court Rules For Sabbath-keeping Students

Adventist World Radio (AWR) will close its Americas Region office in Costa Rica on Sept. 6, 2004, and continue its radio ministry in Central and South America through a new partnership with the Adventist Media Center - Brazil, operated by the church's Sou

Adventist World Radio will continue its radio ministry in Central and South America through the Adventist Media Center - Brazil. [AWR Photo]

South America: Adventist World Radio Redefines Priorities

A Seventh-day Adventist church leader says other denominations should be congratulated for refusing to sponsor political parties or candidates in the upcoming Australian federal election.

Australia: Church leader affirms church, state separation

Stewardship is "the loving submission of all areas of life to the lordship of Jesus Christ in response to God's saving grace," according to a recommendation adopted by the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Stewardship Summit in the South Pacific, held August

Church members from across Australia and New Zealand confronted the challenges and privilege of stewardship at the recent South Pacific Stewardship Summit. [Photo by Nathan Brown/ANN]

South Pacific: Stewardship summit focuses on lordship and mission

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