CHANGNING, China - The telephones kept ringing with more orders, and although Duan Yuelin kept raising his prices, the demand was inexhaustible. Customers were so eager to buy more that they would ply ...

My younger son is a friendly, affectionate 8-year-old who loves playing with his older brother, catching lizards and flying kites. But that wasn’t always the case. Five years ago, when we first ...

Anna Eldridge was adopted from a China orphanage in 2000 at 6 months old. As a child, she soon wanted details. "She started asking really deep questions about her beginnings," said her adoptive mother ...

After China banned international adoptions, some believers want the Chinese church to step up. Xiaofei Wang, a pastor’s wife at a house church in the Chinese port city of Xiamen, had long heard of ...

Editor’s note: In his new book “Ambivalent Love,” Qian Linliang, an associate professor of anthropology at China’s Southwest University, shares his findings from extensive field research at an ...

The decision shocked dozens of evangelical families in the US who had been in the process since before the pandemic. The Chinese government has officially ended its international adoption program, ...

Authorities in communist China have continued a clampdown on Christian orphanages under the guise of enforcing new regulations on religious affairs, leaving thousands of poor and disadvantaged orphans ...

TODAY: (Updated 4:43 p.m.) Maeve O’Keefe, just 13 months old, crawls across the family room floor, grabbing for her red toy block. It’s the exact one that 22-month-old Kate Steed also wants to play ...

An estimated 66,000 orphans live in China’s social welfare institutions. Recently, a Calvin course set out to gather information about best practices for their care. The idea started a world away with ...

The news that China is ending intercountry adoptions resulted in a flood of media coverage, most of which missed the crux of the issue. The decision will result in more children with medical special ...