There's good news and there is bad news for faith groups in the former Soviet States Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders learned on Thursday, January 4
Leaders for the Seventh-day Adventist Church are expressing concern over a trend toward intolerance and persecution aimed at Christians in the central Asian countries of the former Soviet Union
"I would suggest that you bring faith and that you bring heart into the new year. You will discover that you need them both."
Organized by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Eastern-Africa region, the event brought 3,000 delegates from Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa
Nearly a quarter million school children in Yemen, Bolivia, and Madagascar will be cared for by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency
Aimed at creating "negative attitudes" among the citizens of this former Soviet republic, the film was the latest of the media materials offered by state media organizations