One of the very first decisions I made when I became a missions pastor was to stop our short-term mission teams from visiting orphanages. Our church had a long history of sending teams to love and ...

Michael Karl Geilenfeld, 73, was sentenced to 210 years for sexually abusing children at a Haitian orphanage he founded. Six victims testified against the Iowa native, detailing abuse that occurred ...

A Colorado man has been convicted in the sexual abuse of boys who lived in an orphanage that he opened in Haiti in the mid-1980s. Michael Karl Geilenfeld, 73, founded the St. Joseph’s Home for Boys in ...

The incident reportedly occurred at a facility in Kenscoff, Haiti in the early hours of Sunday, Aug. 3 Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

An NPR investigation finds that more than 350 Syrian children were secretly placed in orphanages across the capital, Damascus, when the Assad regime was in power. Now, some of them cannot be found. As ...

CHEONAN, South Korea – Sometimes the little things can have the biggest impacts. A dozen Soldiers from U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys learned this firsthand while volunteering at Ikseonwon, an orphanage ...

MARY, Turkmenistan -- Turkmenistan's state media often describe the country's orphanages as a safe and happy place that provides an idyllic childhood for its kids. But 27-year-old Mahym, who grew up ...

BREWER, Maine (WABI) - Clear skies, warm sun, and a nice cool breeze made Saturday perfect for, what some pet owners refer to, a W-A-L-K. Taking advantage of the weather was made easy on the Brewer ...

Hani al-Farra shared these images of his son and daughter, who went missing with his pregnant wife and their third child at a Syrian regime checkpoint in 2013. Al-Farra searched for them for years to ...

The pastor at the Redding church Suzie Smith attends said more than 400 people showed up for a prayer gathering a day after ...

Play the USA TODAY Quick Cross now. Food is plentiful ... then a 4-year-old who had been through rough times at his orphanage in Ashaiman, which is in Ghana's capital, Accra. “The orphanage that he ...