Matthew Durham, a young missionary from Oklahoma, was convicted in 2015 of raping three girls and molesting a boy at the Upendo Children’s Home. He had volunteered at the Kenyan orphanage from 2012 to ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — By 2010, the United Nations expects 20 million children in sub-Saharan Africa to be so-called AIDS orphans, their parents having succumbed to the deadly disease. The AIDS pandemic has ...

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 ...

Since Kristin Elliott returned from a mission trip to Zambia, Africa, this summer, the 18-year-old said she can’t stop thinking about the orphaned boys and girls she served. “I have the kids’ faces ...

South Africa's University of the Witswatersrand launches a project to reduce the number of children orphaned by AIDS. The goals are to increase the survival rate of HIV-infected mothers and to inhibit ...

When a rock star decides to get involved in a cause, the world (or, at least, the news media) takes notice. Word this month that Madonna has adopted a Malawi child orphaned by AIDS may help spotlight ...

One night in 2003, Agnes Dlamini woke to the sound of her infant grandson crying. His mother — Dlamini’s daughter-in-law — had died after a long illness. The baby was left on top of her emaciated body ...

She never gave the continent a second thought — unless identifying a place you'd never find her. But God had other plans, Hollingshead said, and by 1999, The Woodlands resident couldn't be paid to ...

(The Conversation) — Rather than protecting some of the world’s most vulnerable children, many of Africa’s orphanages are exploiting them. (The Conversation) — Matthew Durham, a young missionary from ...