Muslims now outnumber Catholics Rome/Italy | 31.03.2008 | International For the first time in history Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world's largest religion. According to the Vatican statistical bureau the number of the world's population that are Muslims is 19.2%, with the number of Catholics trailing behind at 17.4 %. When considering all Christians and not just Roman Catholics, Christians make up 33 percent of the world population. The most recent figures from the Vatican have been published by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano on March 3
Salvation Army and Adventist Church Complete Conversations London/UK | 30.03.2008 | International Representatives of the Salvation Army and the Seventh-day Adventist church met February 25-27, 2008, at Adventist world headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland for conversations concerning theology and possible areas of cooperation. The meeting completed a process that began in 2004, when the Adventists hosted Salvationists at the General Conference office. A second round of conversations took place in 2005, at The Salvation Army conference center in Jackson's Point, Ontario, Canada. Contacts
World church president reaffirms Adventist Church's non-combatant position Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 12.03.2008 | Religion + State Healing and saving are first business of church, Paulsen writes Pastor Jan Paulsen, president of the global Seventh-day Adventist Church, has reiterated the church's long-held position on non-combatancy in an article published in the March issue of "Adventist World", the church's international journal. In the article, "Clear Thinking About Military Service" the General Conference president explains that deciding to carry arms puts "the spiritual and moral foundations of your life in serio
U.S.A.: New Pew Survey Reveals: Adventists Often Stay Adventist Washington D.C./USA | 05.03.2008 | Country report Roughly 60 percent of Americans reared in what it defined as the "Adventist family" of churches, a grouping of Protestants dominated by the Seventh-day Adventist, remain in that family as adults, a landmark survey released February 25 revealed. An extensive new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, based on interviews with more than 35,000 Americans age 18 and older, the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, finds that religious affiliation in the U.S. is at once "very diverse and ext
Number of Adventist pastors in Mongolia up 50 percent Ulaanbaatar/Mongolia | 05.03.2008 | International The number of ordained Seventh-day Adventist pastors in Mongolia rose from four to six with the February 23 ordination of two Korean pastors. Park NoYoung and Park SangBum were ordained to ministry in a dedication service at the Ulaanbaatar Central Church. The two pastors are serving in Mongolia as part of the church's Global Mission initiative and supported by the Pioneer Mission Movement (PMM) program in Northern Asia. The PMM program places Adventist pastors, mostly from Korea, as mission
