Baptism in the Seventh-day Adventist Church isn't for infants - the church generally will baptize those who have reached an "age of accountability," and who are fully aware of the solemn step that immersion represents.
Joining earlier calls from Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders in Israel and other parts of the Middle East, Pastor Bertil Wiklander, president of the church's Trans-European region, said the current crisis must not endanger the hope for peace.
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Delegates from Cambodia to California met on the campus of Columbia Union College and Washington Adventist Hospital from July 14 to 16 for a Global Tobacco Control Summit organized by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Theologians, scholars and administrators of the Seventh-day Adventist world church closed the organization's Second International Bible Conference in Ephesus, Izmir Province, Turkey, on July 15 with a call for theological unity.
Leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist church in the Middle East voted Monday, July 17 to postpone the much-anticipated September relocation of its headquarters offices to Beirut, Lebanon.