Current Russian laws do not provide equal rights to all religious bodies, said Oleg Mironov, Russia's commissioner of human rights, during his recent visit to two Seventh-day Adventist institutions south of Moscow.
A long-term drug rehabilitation center established after the lobbying of a local Seventh-day Adventist Church member opened in Port Macquarie, Australia, on June 24.
The National Committee of the Bible Society in Poland has awarded the title "Honorary Member of the Bible Society" to Dr. Bert B. Beach, director for inter-church relations for the Seventh-day Adventist Church worldwide.
Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders in Russia have voiced strong support for legislation, passed June 22 by Russia's lower house of parliament, which would restrict smoking in public places.
More than 10,000 people were baptized June 23 in what Tanzanian Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders are calling the largest baptism ever in the history of the church in East Africa.
An individual's right to refuse active military service on the grounds of conscience is a "fundamental aspect of the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion," according to a recommendation passed by the Assembly of the Council of Europe.