I came out on Nov. 29, 1994, in the most visible of news outlets, the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal. I had long resisted going public with my past life, although I had mentioned a few details ...

The Toronto-based writer's latest novel, Queen Esther, follows a Vienna-born Jewish orphan named Esther Nacht, whose life is ...

This week on "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear speaks with filmmaker and author Gerry Straub about his life making documentaries about extreme poverty around the world.

Tina Rosenberg, a former editorial writer for the New York Times, has sought to convince “volunteer tourists” from wealthy countries that when they work in orphanages in low-income African and Latin ...

Rum Orphanage, also known as the Prinkipo Greek Orphanage, was a Greek Orthodox orphanage. Located on the island of Büyükada near Istanbul, it housed children between 1903 and 1964. Since it closed ...

NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia -- Andrei was on his way to a job interview in the Russian city of Novosibirsk when panic set in. The minibus he was hoping would take him there wasn't moving, and Andrei, who ...

"We are now trying to run the place with very little money and little food." Ahmad Khalil Mayan, the program director at a large Kabul orphanage, is cutting back on the amount of fruit and meat he ...

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