Theresa and David Held returned from Ethiopia with a beautiful baby girl, an admiration for her countrymen's scrappy spirit and awareness that Western adoptions help only a tiny fraction of the ...

Freya Sergis, a SUNY Cortland senior human service studies major, had an all-American experience at Sandy Creek (N.Y.) High School in Oswego County. She ran cross country and track and field, served ...

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 ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- -- The young mother sat in the orphanage waiting room, a baby playing in her lap. At 22, Adelaw Astake had become so gaunt from illness that her dirty skirt was wrapped twice ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — Weyessa “Ace” McAlister’s heart kept pulling him back to his native Ethiopia. In the years after he was adopted from an orphanage by a Great Barrington family when he was 13, ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second part of a 3-part series. BELLVILLE — About 10 years ago, Casey Ault couldn't shake a feeling she had in her heart. There was a child out there, a son, who was already ...

Naomi Haile was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She moved to the U.S. when she was 18 to attend college at the University of Maryland. For years, she was content to study, work, and live her life with ...

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have sponsored thirty children at an Ethiopian orphanage. The pair visited Africa together, where Jolie signed adoption papers for three-month-old Zahara Marley. However, ...