The Centre for the Study of Religious and Cultural Diversity at Newbold College, staged a conference, "Understanding Difference: Building communities in a diverse modern world," from July 23 to July 26.
Determined to oppose a wave of violence in their neighborhoods, Christians from 18 different denominations marched for peace in the community of Mountain View, a densely populated section that has been torn by violence in the last year.
Some 150 years after the Seventh-day Adventist Church established a regular, systematic study of the Bible for believers, a new strategic, intentional plan has begun for the Sabbath School Department of the church in Inter-America.
More than 2,000 Seventh-day Adventists attending a Sabbath worship service at the Albuquerque Convention Center raised over US $2.8 million for world mission projects.
Brazil, the country with the largest number of Seventh-day Adventists in the world, will gain a chapter of the International Religious Liberty Association, a group dedicated to standing up for freedom of worship.
Thinking small has paid off in a big way for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Peru. By using small groups of church members who reach out to neighbors, the church is doubling the number of new members joining annually, and doing a better job of keeping