"It used to be that even if you were qualified for a top position in the church as a woman you would not be considered at all," says Daisy Orion, an associate treasurer for the Seventh-day Adventist world church.
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The impact of changes and flexibility within the structure of the Seventh-day Adventist world church was presented during the 2006 Annual Council by Lowell C. Cooper, a general vice president of the world church and vice chair of the 102-member Commission
More than a century after the first Seventh-day Adventists began working in the nation, the church in Latvia is on the verge of official recognition as a traditional faith by the government, according to regional church president Valdis Zilgalvis.
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Tenured faculty and board members at all Seventh-day Adventist-owned educational institutions must now be Adventist church members in "good and regular standing," church leaders agreed today during an Annual Council meeting at world church headquarters.