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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aids has already orphaned more than 11 million children across Africa, and the worst is yet to come as more parents succumb to the epidemic, Unicef said in a report on Wednesday. The report called for ...

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 ...

The girl was just 10, living with her five younger brothers and sisters in a small, dirt-floored hut in Zimbabwe. Her father had died of AIDS. Her mother had died of AIDS. Finally, her grandmother ...

While Western churches and charities have focused attention and money on building orphanages in African nations wracked by AIDS, little financial help has flowed to the extended families that care for ...

Consortium aims to improve Africa's traditional crops Sequencing speeds breeding for more nutritious, productive crops Improved crops could help eliminate malnutrition and stunted growth UC Davis is ...

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 ...

(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 ...