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Adventist News Network

Colombian Kidnapping Victim Returned; One Remains Missing -- After being held for eight days by one of Colombia's largest guerilla groups, Camilo Ramirez, a student of the Adventist University in Colombia, was released July 4, report church leaders in the region.

Hispanic Festival in Los Angeles Starts Month of Personal Evangelism -- More than 12,000 Hispanic Seventh-day Adventist lay people were on hand at the Los Angeles Convention Center July 4 to 6 for the launch of Un Million de Amigos, a campaign to take 1 million copies of a special issue of the Adventist magazine El Centinela to Hispanic community members.

International Conference Advances Battle Against HIV/AIDS -- Representatives from the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International are participating in the 14th International AIDS Conference currently underway in Barcelona, Spain.

Report Links Lack of Basic Freedoms and Social Underdevelopment -- A United Nations report released July 2 on human development in Arab countries shows that countries lacking fundamental freedoms are also likely to suffer underdevelopment in key areas, including education, technology, and the economy.

Australian Archaeologist Defends Bible in National Newspaper -- Archaeologist David Down defended the reliability of the Scriptures in a feature published by the Australian Financial Review on July 5.

ANN Feature: Uzbekistan Adventists Celebrate New House of Prayer -- After a decade of work and financial sacrifice, Seventh-day Adventists in the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan now have a spiritual center of their own in the capital city of Tashkent.

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Adventists in the News

Two Churchgoers Robbed

Russian officials visit Andrews

ADRA Responds to Flooding in Argentina

Antichrist sign taken down

Senators Guard Religious Freedoms in the Workplace

Supreme Court OKs school vouchers

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