Nine years ago this holiday season, Andrew “Bobo” Speakman visited Northwest Indiana from an orphanage in China. The young boy was sponsored for a U.S. visit by Jill Terborg, a mother of two adopted ...

Chinese police prevented American author Amy Tan from speaking at a fund-raising dinner, apparently because the event was on behalf of Chinese orphans, organizers said Sunday. Police first asked the ...

His hope for a prosthetic leg hung on a thread a lifeline of generosity winding halfway around the world. The Red Thread, a charitable organization guided by two American women, is dedicated to ...

More than three months after an earthquake killed 70,000 people in Sichuan, central China, not a single orphan has been adopted. The process has been blighted by bureaucracy and by the unwillingness ...

MIANZHU, China -- Four months after a massive earthquake upended this region of Sichuan province, child welfare officers scurry to sort out the fate of 532 orphan children. Countless couples have ...