ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Four-month-old Thomas Bekele lies in a crib in the Kidane Meheret Children's Home awaiting an HIV test, the result of which will determine his chances of being adopted and ...

ST. PAUL — Ethiopia was not on Mark and Vera Westrum-Ostrom’s list when they first visited Children’s Home Society & Family Services here to explore an international adoption. Ukraine was first, ...

new york - As the number of international adoptions by Americans plummets, Ethiopia is emphatically bucking the trend, sending record numbers of children to the United States while winning praise for ...

HILTONS -- At Robin Gardner's house, four Ethiopian children play along a creek that runs through the rhododendrons, which are shaded by hemlocks and hardwoods. The four and their five American ...

CHRISTIANSBURG — On a warm July afternoon Sophia Blaszak rolled down the hill in her backyard alongside two of her sisters. A mundane moment for many, the joyful tumbling marked a milestone the ...

Dona Kabeary and the Rev. Ron Todd make regular trips to Ambo, Ethiopia. It’s a long trip — 9,000 miles — which requires multiple flights, starting in Billings at noon on a Saturday and ending in ...

ANTIOCH, Calif. -- An Antioch teenager's Sweet 16 birthday won't be a celebration of excess or even focus on her. Instead, it will be used to help orphans half way across the planet. Nubia Wilson ...

Welcoming Angels is an international hosting ministry sponsored by America World Adoption. It is currently recruiting families in the East Cooper area to host Ethiopian orphans from Dec. 15 - Jan. 15, ...

LOS ANGELES - Actress Angelina Jolie is adopting a newborn Ethiopian girl orphaned by AIDS, People magazine reported Tuesday. Jolie, who has toured the world as goodwill ambassador for the United ...

CHRIS, THANK YOU. A FIREWORKS STAND IN GREENVILLE IS NOT ONLY HELPING YOU LIGHT UP THE SKY THIS JULY 4TH, BUT IT’S ALSO PROVIDING AID FOR CHILDREN IN AFRICA. RASHAD WILLIAMS SPOKE WITH THE COUPLE WHO ...

STUTTGART, Germany — Laura Ingold doesn’t want to be a coddled kid. So she’s giving for Christmas instead of receiving. Laura, a junior at Patch American High School, has spent ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Angelina Jolie and her Mr. & Mrs. Smith co-star, Brad Pitt, are in Ethiopia to pick up the orphaned baby girl she is adopting, an official said Thursday. Pitt, Jolie and ...