Bold Batsukh was ordained August 4, becoming the first Mongolian to enter the Seventh-day Adventist Church ministry. The ordination service took place at the country's first-ever Adventist camp meeting, held August 1 to 6 at the Selenge Campground near Er
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.
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
Elderly patients who experience a religious crisis while ill are at increased risk of dying, according to the results of a study published in the August 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Civil rights and religious leaders met with United States Senator Edward Kennedy August 2 to urge his support for the Workplace Religious Freedom Act (WFRA).
A group of 1,500 Seventh-day Adventist lay people met in Sacramento, California, United States, August 8 to 11, to explore ways of expanding lay involvement in humanitarian and mission work around the world.