Guatemala: Dirty war orphans put up for adoption

Guatemala's government said Monday it has uncovered evidence supporting a long-held belief: Children whose parents were killed during the country's 36-year civil war were put up for adoption.

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Academy has custody of some 100 orphaned Oscars

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences requires all Oscar nominees to sign a contract specifying that they will not sell their statuette without first offering it back to the academy for $1.

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China opens registrations to adopt quake orphans

Eighty-eight children who were orphaned after a massive earthquake struck central China earlier this year have been made eligible for adoption, state media reported.

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Chinese eager to adopt quake orphans

The children's faces stare in somber black-and-white photos from newspapers and scribbled posters at relief camps, seeking their parents. Many will never find them.

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China estimates 4,000 children orphaned in quake

Last week's deadly earthquake in China has created more than 4,000 orphans, a Chinese official said.

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Myanmar junta setting up orphanages after cyclone

Myanmar's military junta will set up orphanages for the hundreds of children whose parents died in the recent cyclone, state media reported Wednesday.

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Vietnam Man Runs 'Abortion Orphanage'

Sitting cross-legged on a straw mat in the middle of the living room, Tong Phuoc Phuc sings a soothing Vietnamese lullaby. For a moment, his deep voice works magic, and the tiny room crammed with 13 babies is still.

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Soldiers Seek Families for Iraqi Orphans

Having overcome great obstacles to adopt an Iraqi orphan with cerebral palsy, Scott Southworth is spearheading an effort to find families to care for another 21 disabled children from that unhappy land.

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Iraqi Orphans Receive Official Paperwork

Dozens of Iraqi orphans were awarded Iraqi citizenship certificates and official identification cards Friday after the government repeatedly turned down their requests for documents affirming their legal status.

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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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A war our government perpetrated leaves thousands widowed and orphaned. The USA should be proud of herself. Now we can figure out how to send aid to Iraq, while arguing about Health Care Reform. Thank you Obama, for your temperate tone in your world speeches.

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A Christian Brother will serve 15 months in jail for the abuse of a boy at a South Melbourne orphanage more than three decades ago.

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While I suppose one could argue that it's too early to start identifying the most under-reported story of the 21st century to date, I should think that the actual death and human suffering toll in Iraq might top the list of almost any discerning journalist, academic, policymaker, …

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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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Some happy news out of Kenya

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Dr. James Dobson, a longtime leader of the Christian-right movement which played key roles in electing Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, appears to have admitted defeat in the so-called culture wars.

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The two most authoritative estimates of violent deaths because of the war are more than 600,000 through 2006 (according to the Lancet medical journal study) and more than one million through 2007 (ORB).

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Volunteer Abroad Cambodia Phnom Penh Children, Orphans, Teaching www.abroaderview.org/cambodia.php

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Many of the very people who claim to be advocates for children ignore orphans that need adoptive parents. Look at the movie stars who go to foreign lands to adopt and very pointedly ignore our own children.

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The World Health Organization has estimated that over 151,000 Iraqi citizens have died violent deaths since 2003 when George Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq.

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The Heroic Nanny Who Saved 2-Year-Old Rabbi's Son in Mumbai Terrorist Attack speaks on how it happened. She hid between two refrigerators with the boy for hours, while his parents were killed, and then escaped. She is now in Israel with the 2-year-old boy.

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Foreign adoption seems like the perfect solution to a heartbreaking imbalance: Poor countries have babies in need of homes, and rich countries have homes in need of babies. Unfortunately, those little orphaned bundles of joy may not be orphans at all.

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That's why our adoption ministry, Shaohannah's Hope, teamed up with FamilyLife and Focus on the Family to create the Cry of the Orphan campaign.

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Cry of the Orphan is working to provide families with resources and tools to help them take the "next step" in their adoption journey.

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The Turkish Government has accused the Duchess of York of smearing Turkey's image by taking part in a television documentary about the country's orphanages which will be aired in Britain today.

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As was pointed out yesterday by the Christian Science Monitor, the McCain campaign was called out for lying about the purported urging of Cindy McCain by Mother Teresa herself to adopt two children at her orphanage back in 1991.

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A Chinese policewoman who breastfed babies orphaned during last month's earthquake has been given a better job, prompting online protests that promotions should be awarded on merit, not merely for good deeds.

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The story in Darfur and now Chad is hard to understand. Cutting these pieces with my editor Bev Chase, we struggle with a way to visually explain the enemy so that it registers with viewers.

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Alive in Baghdad employs Iraqi journalists to produce video packages each week about a variety of topics on daily life in Iraq

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Q&A on Iraqi orphans and adoption.

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God Can Use You program starts in May 2008 – A Nuts and Bolts Program for Christians who want to serve

Dr. Pete Sulack, a chiropractic doctor, out of Knoxville Tennessee will begin airing a new kind of Christian program starting May 1, 2008.

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A bible believing church in the Seattle area has decided that the best way to put their pro-life policies into action is to pay for adoptions. Typically, these cost anywhere from $4,000 to $30,000 and up.

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Kick Start CHANGE Now America

When I was a kid, there was a saying in the common vernacular; "Will it play in Peoria?" This saying embodied the idea that something would sell to average America; that great all encompassing mass of people who aren't on the extremes of any ideology.

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A Philanthropic Society

One day a man decided to donate $30 Million dollars. No big deal. Someone else thought he was being a little cheap so he donated $40 Million. Each probably went about their day and purchased their five dollar mocha Latte.

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