After being held for eight days by one of Colombia's largest guerilla groups, Camilo Ramirez, a student of the Adventist University in Colombia, was released July 4, report church leaders in the region.
After a decade of work and financial sacrifice, Seventh-day Adventists in the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan now have a spiritual center of their own in the capital city of Tashkent.
More than 12,000 Hispanic Seventh-day Adventist lay people were on hand at the Los Angeles Convention Center July 4 to 6 for the launch of Un Million de Amigos, a campaign to take 1 million copies of a special issue of the Adventist magazine El Centinela
Archaeologist David Down defended the reliability of the Scriptures in a feature published by the Australian Financial Review on July 5.
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency office in Uzbekistan recently began a clothing distribution project that will assist nearly 56,000 people in four different provinces.
Seventh-day Adventist leaders joined with United States Senators John Kerry and Rick Santorum at a June 26 press conference to announce the introduction of the Workplace Religious Freedom Act (WRFA) of 2002.