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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 African Plant Breeding Academy, run by the University of California, Davis, in collaboration with Mars Incorporated and their global partners, today (Dec. 11) graduated its first class of plant ...

(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 ...