Statement on Meeting the Challenges of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Foz do Iguacu, Brazil | 05.10.1998 | Statement on... The Seventh-day Adventist Church issued a "Statement on Meeting the Challenges of Sexually Transmitted Diseases", on October 4, 1998. Meeting in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, delegates to the Church's Annual Council voted to approve the Statement which identifies the "grave ethical, medical, and social problems resulting from increasing sexual permissiveness and associated promiscuity." While noting advances in treatment, education, and research, the Statement acknowledges the need for continuing eff
