(From left) Adventist Church religious liberty advocate John Graz with José Ramos-Horta, president of Timor-Leste and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Graz later said he was encouraged by the national leader’s commitment to prioritize freedom of religion. [photo courtesy PARL]
Visit to Timor-Leste reveals religious liberty gains
United States President Barack Obama meets with members of his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, launched last year to brainstorm how the government can better cooperate with faith-based and community groups to address social issues. [photo: courtesy White House]
President Obama meets with faith and community leaders
Dutch Adventist youth and young professionals discuss how best to shape the church’s image in the community during a March 7 Let’s Talk program, the 27th episode in the series. [photo: Rajmund Dabrowski]
Let's Talk Netherlands
Jan Paulsen, president for the Seventh-day Adventist world church, offers a dedication prayer for the members of Alivio Foundation, a teen mother support group located in Delft, Netherlands. [photo: Rajmund Dabrowski]
Jan Paulsen prays for teen mother support foundation
Chile's President-elect Sebastian Piñera and United States Secretary of State Hilary Clinton spoke with ADRA volunteers during a visit to the Santiago Airport Tuesday, March 2. ADRA is currently working to distribute food and clean water to earthquake survivors. [photo: ADRA Chile]
U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton

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New guidelines will set accreditation standards for Seventh-day Adventist Church-run institutions wishing to add medical, dental or pharmacy schools. Loma Linda University is the Adventist Church's medical school in Loma Linda, California, United States. [photo: Rajmund Dabrowski]
Loma Linda University Medical Center

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Seventh-day Adventist world church President Jan Paulsen talks with young people from Inter-America about their importance in the church. The discussion took place on the 20th episode of Let's Talk, an impromptu question and answer television series. [photo: IAD]
Let's Talk El Salvador participants
(From left) Bertil Wiklander, Adventist Church president for Trans-Europe; Kjell Aune, church president in the Middle East; Amir Ghali, Al Waad director; and Brad Thorp, president of Hope Channel, unveil the church’s new media center in Beirut. [photo: courtesy Al Waad Media Center]
Church leaders unveil the Al Waad media center
The Haitian Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior visiting earthquake survivors on the USS Bataan, accompanied by Adventist Navy Chaplain Andre Trofort. From left, Trofort, Minister of the Interior Paul Antoine Bien-Aime, and Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive. Trofort, a native of Haiti, is assisting with the military’s humanitarian relief efforts and interprets both Creole and French. [photo: courtesy Andre Trofort]
Adventist Navy Chaplain working in native Haiti
Suzete Edmond (front) and her sister Magalie Lapaix have been living in a makeshift shelter at a Port-au-Prince camp for displaced persons since January 13, the day after the quake struck Haiti. [photo: Hearly Mayr/ADRA International]
Haitians in temporary shelters at a displaced persons camp
Mikhail P. Kulakov Sr., the first president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Euro-Asia region, died of brain cancer February 10. Kulakov was 83. [graphic: Tanya Holland]
Mikhail Kulakov, former president for Adventist Church in Euro-Asia
An ADRA motorbike driver uses his bike to power a mobile water filtration system from partner organization Global Medic. The system filters one gallon of water per minute, providing safe drinking water for more than 300 people a day. [photo: Matt Herzel/ADRA International]
ADRA bike drivers
The Finnish government recently proposed stricter smoking laws that will likely take effect this summer. The restrictions include no smoking in cars with underage occupants and a ban on displaying tobacco products in stores. [photo: Rajmund Dabrowski]
Finland tightens smoking restrictions
Borge Schantz, Reinder Bruinsma, Jan Paulsen [photo: Rajmund Dabrowski/ANN]
Paulsen at Loma Linda University
Richard Hart, Loma Linda University president, presents the institution's Presidential Medal to Adventist world church President Jan Paulsen on Saturday, January 23. [photo: Rajmund Dabrowski]
Paulsen receives a medal at Loma Linda University
About 30,000 refugees are camping on the grounds of the Haitian Adventist University in Port-au-Prince. [photo: Matt Herzel/ADRA International]
Haitian refugee camp
The construction team is waiting for a cold spell to break before they finish pouring the foundation for the final phase of rebuilding.[Photo: BUC]
Adventist Church headquarters in Britain
Seventh-day Adventist world church President Jan Paulsen addressed the struggles church members in Haiti face, saying the church has not forgotten them. So far, donations for organizational rebuilding in Haiti exceed $1 million. [photo: Megan Brauner/ANN]
Paulsen's Haiti speech
Earthquake survivors in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince survey the damage after a 7.0 - magnitude earthquake leveled much of the city Tuesday evening. Red Cross initial estimates put the death toll at around 50,000, while the Haitian government said they estimated around 500,000. [photo: AP]
Haiti destruction
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