Adventist Leaders Support Efforts to Educate Girls in 25 Countries
A new United Nations campaign to place girls into schools in 25 priority countries drew reactions from Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders last week.
A new United Nations campaign to place girls into schools in 25 priority countries drew reactions from Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders last week.
A carpenter in Malawi has given up making cupboards. With a famine hitting his country, he now only builds coffins.
Teaching children about tolerance and respect was the focus of recent discussions with Seventh-day Adventist Church representatives, the International Religious Liberty Association and government officials in Chile.
Reflecting on issues that are a concern to many people around the world, Pastor Jan Paulsen, president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church, expressed his hopes for peace and tolerance and spoke against war and violence.
Roofs, jobs and reconciliation are our response to what the region of Lika needs, said Dragutin Matak, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Croatia.
It takes courage to learn about HIV/AIDS, and even more courage to do something about it, said Charles Sandefur, president of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, in the wake of the United Nations World AIDS Day Dec. 1.