Started in Dallas 24 years ago, Buckner Shoes for Orphan Souls has delivered its 5 millionth pair of shoes, to a child in central Mexico earlier this year. During that trip, the program served around ...

World Without Orphans (WWO) is calling on churches around the globe to take action for orphans, vulnerable children, and families on Nov. 9 as part of Orphan Sunday 2025. This year’s theme, “Together ...

While the Orphan Trains were a historically significant event in the nation’s past, the whole saga of the transportation of these children across the country has generally been ignored or forgotten.

Between 1854 and 1929, orphan trains from Eastern cities delivered about 400,000 children to families in rural areas of the Midwest. Missouri received 100,000 children. The “baby trains” were the ...

Fernando Jones couldn’t find the tree. Earlier this week, for the first time in years, Jones visited the site of the old Carrie Steele-Pitts Home on Fairburn Road, the orphanage where he grew up. When ...

Sal Di Leo grew up in an orphanage in the 1960s, the 11th of 12 children rescued from abject poverty after their father left them. “I don’t know where I’d be today without the sisters,” observed Di ...

Following the unprecedented pro-democracy demonstrations that broke out after Belarus's disputed 2020 presidential election, the government undertook a ruthless crackdown on dissent that included ...