Nairobi — It is surprising just how big a controversy pop superstar Madonna's adoption of a 13-month-old Malawian boy has kicked up in the international media. At home, an attempt by group of 67 ...

Boston University researchers have found that orphans in Africa develop similarly to their peers, contradicting older reports that South African orphans perform worse in school and are more likely to ...

Federal authorities have arrested Jason Carney, an American who ran a charity to feed African orphans and brokered adoptions in Malawi for U.S. clients. Carney was detained Friday in Arkansas in ...

Imagine: It’s almost five o’clock in the morning; the sun hasn’t risen over the horizon yet. You get up, crawl out of your potato sack and fetch water from the river. You bathe, dress and have a cup ...

Greatness usually arrives veiled in humility. This week, I was privileged to spend many hours with Bishop Mdimi Mhologo who leads the Anglican Diocese of Central Tanganyika in East Africa. He presides ...

During her 2002 visit to South Africa, she was confronted with the effects of an HIV/ AIDS epidemic that has produced a growing population of orphans. At the suggestion of a friend, she decided to ...

Every morning, teacher Moira Mahr began her classes at Pacific Grove Middle School by tapping with her students. Not the old school punitive ruler kind of tapping, but a positive emotional technique ...

They watched Disney on Ice, shopped at a mall and rode escalators for the first time. Maryland, after all, is far away from the girls? home in Namibia, Africa the Children of Mount Zion Village, an ...