The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Norway is giving priority to public evangelism for a 10-week period by limiting the number of in-house committee meetings and by cutting back on non-evangelistic church events.
A 22-day satellite evangelistic series was launched February 23 from the Seventh-day Adventist theological seminary near Bucharest, Romania.
Government efforts to end more than three years of religious and ethnic violence in Indonesia's Maluku province have met only limited success, report Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders in the region.
Leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Malawi, East Africa, issued a statement earlier this month affirming that "women with the gift of preaching should be encouraged to preach and share the Word of God."
More than 3,400 adults graduated February 11 from an adult literacy program in Eastern Uganda run by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency.
More than 20,000 people have been baptized as a result of what organizers are calling the most successful evangelistic series ever held by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Dominican Republic.