Suspected Hindu hard-liners set fire to orphanage

Suspected Hindu hard-liners set fire Monday to an orphanage run by Christian missionaries in eastern India, killing one woman and seriously injuring a priest, police said.

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Study Says Foster Care Benefits Brains

Toddlers rescued from orphanages and placed in good foster homes score dramatically higher on IQ tests years later than children who were left behind, concludes a one-of-a-kind project in Romania that has profound implications for child welfare around the globe.

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The number of children around the world living without any parents or separated from their families has increased to 24 million with a third of them placed in orphanages, a leading British charity dealing with children's rights has warned.

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Four Christians working for an NGO that helps orphans in Somalia have been beheaded by al-Shabaab, according to the human rights watchdog International Christian Concern.

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A federal judge in Philadelphia has accepted a plea deal from a wealthy Russian-American entrepreneur accused of traveling to his homeland to have sex with girls from an orphanage.

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I understand that these allegations are just coming to light and have not resulted in criminal convictions. However, anyone who can objectively study the violent history of religion knows that this is the rule...not the exception.

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The Bolivian government is implementing new land reform policy purported to help the poor, under which the government can seize and redistribute land to indigenous farmers. It's a proposal that has left many landowners unhappy.

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A student who visited a run-down African orphanage was so moved by the children's plight that she raised £30,000 to buy it. Amy Lambert, 24, set about gathering funds after witnessing the horrors at the decrepit Kichijo Orphanage in Tanzania.

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Junior and High School students from all around the Peace Country united for a rally with the following message: MAKE POVERTY HISTORY. The students marched through the city with signs, chanting "Make poverty history".

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Cry of the Orphan salutes 10-year-old in Michigan who is helping kids in his former orphanage in Ukraine

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This is an objective, multi-chapter article on John McCain, written by his hometown, Conservative newspaper, the Arizona Republic.

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Harassment by the Israeli authorities leaves Palestinians angry and despairing. Could that be the intention?

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Video and Photos: Israeli Army Raid and Loot Hebron Orphanage home to 110 girls Written by Haitham on 11. May 2008, 0012hrs // Part of Haitham's adventure in Israel, Palestine, Terrorism, Video, War Crimes, Zionism // Other posts by Haitham

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Volunteer Abroad Programs - Volunteering Opportunities www.abroaderview.org

Volunteer Abroad Programs - Volunteering Opportunities

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Q&A on Iraqi orphans and adoption.

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Movie Review: The Orphanage

As I sat down in the theatre on Tuesday night to watch The Orphanage (El Orfanato), I was struck by the rather unusual composition of the audience. Now granted, it was a Tuesday night, but the theatre was empty, except for one other individual and myself.

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Gemma Bray, 15, and her 13-year-old sister Katie also had their clothes taken off them and were asked if they had been abused or were suicidal. Their mother Yvonne Bray of Appledore, Devon, says their human rights were infringed by the authorities.

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Construction has begun on a children's home for Aids orphans in Malawi with the help of Madonna, who is visiting the southern African nation.

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The standards for "precision" in air strikes keep getting lower and lower from Kosovo to Iraq to Lebanon to Sri Lanka.Children were the latest victims as the crisis deepened in Sri Lanka.

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