In North America, half of Adventist pastors 10 years from retirement age

Ivan Williams, director of the North American Division’s Ministerial Department, along with other church leaders, are looking at how to prepare for an upcoming boom in pastors reaching retirement age. Here, he presents at a ministerial council in Ontario, California, last year. [file photo by Gerry Chudleigh]

Implications of aging ministers could challenge future staffing

Church a fixture in society, ‘not just a destination,’ Adventist mission expert says

Large cities such as Caracas, Venezuela – home to more than 7 million people – are the focus of urban evangelism ministries across the church’s Inter-American Division.  [photo: Abel Marquez]

Connecting with community focus of Inter-America’s first Urban Ministries Summit

New Armenian programming joins some 80 languages offered by Adventist World Radio

An Adventist World Radio media team is heading up new Armenian language programming in the country. The Mkhitaryan family, at right, has previous broadcast experience from their involvement with earlier radio work in Vanadzor. [photo courtesy AWR]

For Adventist radio arm, Armenian stations are inroad to mission

Veteran advocate Thames on sway of private citizens, faith groups, NGOs

Expanding religious liberty worldwide requires citizen participation, panelists at the 7th World Congress for Religious Freedom said April 24. From left, Knox Thames, director of Policy and Research for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom; Ambassador Robert Seiple, president of the Center for America's First Freedom; and Richard T. Foltin, director of National and Legislative Affairs for the American Jewish Committee. [photo: Ansel Oliver]

Ongoing religious freedom advocacy difficult, but often effective, U.S. official says

Two decades after Bosnian war, humanitarian reflects on ADRA relief work during siege

God has not forgotten Sarajevo

Imprisonment, death, police raids not uncommon, panel says

From left, Vladimir Ryahovsky of the Slavic Center for Law & Justice; Kevin L. Kimball of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Rev. Susan L. Taylor of the Church of Scientology; and Tiffany Barrans, of the American Center for Law and Justice discuss the state of religious liberty worldwide during the 7th World Congress for Religious Freedom April 25. [photo: Ansel Oliver]

In world fields, religious liberty often a struggle

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