Supporting Seventh-day Adventist church members who are active in civil government, the International Association of Adventists in Public Affairs, or IAAPA, which was organized last year, is now establishing chapters in many nations.
Adventist Television Network is proceeding with implementation of its earlier announced plans to begin full-time satellite broadcasts.
The cause of religious freedom took a step forward last week with the re-introduction of the "Workplace Religious Freedom Act," or WRFA, in the United States Senate, the upper house of the Congress.
An intentional, multi-year evangelistic effort by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Dominican Republic finished its most recent phase with a two-week series of meetings in the capital city of Santo Domingo.
Local leaders have praised agricultural research at Northern Caribbean University, a Seventh-day Adventist institution, and want to fund more programs there.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church, in a program noting the International Day of Women, recently honored the current, and former, first ladies of the Dominican Republic.