World Food Day: Hunger and Malnutrition Top Health Risks Silver Spring, Maryland/USA | 15.10.2010 | ADRA The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) commemorates World Food Day on October 16, 2010, recognizing the severe lack of access to food in many countries around the world. With more than a billion people going to bed hungry every night, World Food Day refocuses the world’s attention on the increasing need for food assistance worldwide. According to the World Food Programme (WFP), hunger and malnutrition remain the number one risk to individual health worldwide, posing a higher healt
Exhibition on Protestantisms in independent Ukraine opened in Lviv Lviv/Ukraine | 08.10.2010 | International A new exhibition titled "Protestantism in Independent Ukraine", highlighting the history and the development of current Protestant churches worldwide and in modern Ukraine, was opened in Lviv at the Museum of Religion. The exhibition theme is represented by lithographs, clerical and liturgical clothings of ministers, preachers, pastors and bishops, various religious objects, publications (books, magazines, calendars), numerous photographs, and the Bible translation of Martin Luther. Accord
European Protestants and Baptists sign cooperation agreement Rome/Vienna/Berne | 04.10.2010 | Ecumenism The Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE) and the European Baptist Federation (EBF) are seeking closer ties and better relations. Michael Bünker (Vienna) and Tony Peck (Prague), general secretaries respectively of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE) and the European Baptist Federation (EBF), signed an agreement for this purpose in Rocca di Papa, near Rome, on 24 September. This means the two Europe-wide organisations are now ‘mutually co-operating bodies.’ The E
