The recent move by Seventh-day Adventist Church administrators in the South Pacific to implement new salary guidelines for church employers (see news report above) highlights similar challenges facing church leaders around the world.
A recent attack on an Adventist church building is "disturbing for religious freedom," says Viorel Dima, director of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's department of religious liberty in Romania.
A mobile phone text messaging project and a campaign to make Seventh-day Adventist church buildings more attractive are just two elements of a plan to help raise the profile of the Adventist Church in the southern Asia-Pacific region.
Protestants in the Russian province of Belgorod have expressed fear that a new law aimed at curbing public "missionary activity" will be enforced only against the region's Protestant minorities.
Wages paid to Seventh-day Adventist Church employees in Australia will now be determined by several different "streams" rather than by reference to a single wage scale.
Many adults and young people in the Mayuge District of Eastern Uganda are learning HIV/AIDS prevention techniques as part of an Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA) program.