The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Vietnam received official recognition last month, granting the church in the Southeast Asian nation legal status to operate, church officials said.

Hundreds of previously illiterate Mozambican adults are reading and writing after completing the first part of a four-level literacy program last week.

Romanian national president Traian Basescu visited a Seventh-day Adventist Church in Madrid, Spain earlier this month, drawing attention to the country's significant Romanian immigrant population -- 6,000 of whom are Adventists.

Jere D. Patzer, North Pacific Union Conference president since 1996, died October 26 following a lengthy battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He was 61.

Four Pacific Union College (PUC) students died in a vehicle accident on Deer Park Road.