More than 50 Internet and communications specialists from 13 countries in the European Seventh-day Adventist Church districts met in Prague Feb. 12 to 15 to discuss how the Internet can be used for evangelism.
"This is the first of its kind in the Adventist denomination," said Mike Curzon, who is known as "pastor" at the Temple of the Advent Hope and "Rabbi" during the congregation's Messianic service in the new building next to the church.
"The Passion of the Christ," a US$30-million motion picture telling the story of the last 12 hours of the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth, has already provoked a worldwide discussion about those events and their significance.
New Translation of Luke's Gospel -- Pierre Lanarès, Jurist and Religious Liberty Champion, dies at age 92 -- Korean Adventist Educator, Church Leader Dies.
Seventh-day Adventists should be known as "people who are eager to do good," Pastor Jan Paulsen, Adventist world church president, told more than 3,000 students and faculty at Bandung Adventist University, concluding a four-day visit to Indonesia Feb. 15.
Maestro Herbert Blomstedt, one of the classical music world's fixtures as a conductor of global renown, says that a work such as Beethoven's Fourth Symphony or Nielsen's "Inextinguishable" is the "text" from which he expounds a sermon in the world's great