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Adventist Church in the world |
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Written by Administrator
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vendredi, 25 avril 2008 |
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Global Perspective
We are part of the world-wide Seventh-day Adventist Church which has a population of 14 million members worshipping in more than 48,000 congregations in 204 out of the 228 countries in the world. The Adventist Church also operates 174 hospitals, 393 clinics and dispensaries, and 158 nursing homes, retirement centres, orphanages and children's homes. In addition the Church runs a world-wide system of more than 5,900 schools with over 1,065,000 students from kindergarten to graduate professional schools. Institutions in Mauritius include 1 secondary school, 1 pre-primary school and 1nursing home.
The Adventist Church also has a world-wide publishing ministry, with more than 50 publishing companies, printing scores of magazines and other publications in nearly 327 languages and dialects. The Adventist Worldis the flagship journal of the church. For more information, visit www.adventistworld.org
Adventist world Radio is the international broadcast ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, bringing the gospel to people in the hardest-to-reach places on earth, in their own languages. AWR currently transmits programs in 55 languages; its shortwave, AM/FM, and satellite broadcasts reach 70 percent of the world, and programs are also available through the Internet. For more information, visit www.awr.org
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Last Updated ( lundi, 05 mai 2008 )
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