Sibrina Kalliokoski has been elected secretary of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Finland, becoming the first women in the Trans-European region of the world church to hold the position of union secretary.
The Sydney Adventist Hospital (SAH) will undertake a $A23 million capital works program that is necessary, says the hospital board, to enhance the hospital's position as a provider of premium health care in the increasingly competitive environment of Sydn
A mobile phone text messaging project and a campaign to make Seventh-day Adventist church buildings more attractive are just two elements of a plan to help raise the profile of the Adventist Church in the southern Asia-Pacific region.
A recent attack on an Adventist church building is "disturbing for religious freedom," says Viorel Dima, director of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's department of religious liberty in Romania.
The recent move by Seventh-day Adventist Church administrators in the South Pacific to implement new salary guidelines for church employers (see news report above) highlights similar challenges facing church leaders around the world.
Protestants in the Russian province of Belgorod have expressed fear that a new law aimed at curbing public "missionary activity" will be enforced only against the region's Protestant minorities.