2005-12-17 04:00:00 PDT Johannesburg-- A clash between several hundred Soweto orphans and two dozen police on the beach in Durban has reignited debate in South Africa about police violence, racism and ...

Imagine: It’s almost five o’clock in the morning; the sun hasn’t risen over the horizon yet. You get up, crawl out of your potato sack and fetch water from the river. You bathe, dress and have a cup ...

(RNS) — In South Africa, a baby boy I will call Themba was placed in our children’s home when he was just 2 years old. His father had died, and his mother, who was blind and HIV-positive, could no ...

During her 2002 visit to South Africa, she was confronted with the effects of an HIV/ AIDS epidemic that has produced a growing population of orphans. At the suggestion of a friend, she decided to ...

Ndiphiwe Nyathi's* mother died while her daughter was at school; now the teenage girl is missing classes to nurse her ailing father. When she does attend lessons, "she seems angry", says Valencia ...

Appointed by Gov. Wes Moore, Judge Michelle Greer is making history as the first African-American woman to be appointed to the Baltimore County Orphan’s Court in its nearly 250 years of history. On ...

Jason Carney texted his client early one Friday morning with exciting news. “Can I talk to you both again today please?” he wrote. “I have a baby.” Up popped a photo of an infant girl in a blue knit ...

The Danville News Aug 5, 2013 Aug 5, 2013 Updated Feb 15, 2016 MAHONING TWP. — Kathryn Mercurio saw signs directing her to a lemonade stand. She followed the signs, drove to Trinity United Methodist ...