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In the evening of February 29, World Without Orphans (WWO) kicked off its third global forum in Chiang Mai, Thailand, with the theme ‘together from crisis to hope.’ Bringing together more than 500 participants from over sixty countries, the event started off with a reminder that amid the overwhelming needs of overlapping crises today, human efforts cannot help but fall short. Instead, what God is looking for is believers who faithfully follow the leading of His Spirit to transform their comm...

“The state of orphans and vulnerable children was improving for decades, then suddenly one crisis hit after another,” says Karmen Friesen, principal coordinator of World Without Orphans (WWO), a global movement that seeks to mobilize the Church to respond to the needs of vulnerable children in every nation.

“The state of orphans and vulnerable children was improving for decades, then suddenly one crisis hit after another,” says Karmen Friesen, principal coordinator of World Without Orphans (WWO), a global movement that seeks to mobilize the Church to respond to the needs of vulnerable children in every nation.

Evangelical, Orthodox, and academic sources weigh security concerns against the right to associate with historic patriarchate losing popularity and suspected of war collabo...

Tens of thousands of displaced children in Ukraine -- as well as refugee children in surrounding nations -- need financial and medical assistance from overseas and not adoption bids, experts in the field said this week.

Tens of thousands of displaced children in Ukraine -- as well as refugee children in surrounding nations -- need financial and medical assistance from overseas and not adoption bids, experts in the field said this week.

COVID-19 ORPHANHOOD - The numbers of children orphaned due to COVID-19 continues to grow rapidly and is accelerating, according to new research.

The National Covid Memorial Wall in London (Dominic Lipinski/PA) About 1.5 million children have lost a parent, grandparent or primary caregiver due to Covid-19, a new study has estimated. The research, published in medical journal The Lancet, found more than one million children worldwide experienced the death of one or both parents during the first 14 months of the pandemic while another half a million faced the death of a grandparent caregiver living in their own home. The findings suggest t...

 E-Mail Study offers first global estimates of the number of children who experienced the death of a parent, grandparent, or primary caregiver from COVID-19. Researchers estimated figures based on COVID-19 mortality data from March 2020 through April 2021, and national fertility statistics for 21 countries, and extrapolated findings to produce global estimates. Findings suggest 1 million children have lost a parent, 1.1 million have lost a parent or custodial grandparent, and more than 1...

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