ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Four-month-old Thomas Bekele lies in a crib in the Kidane Meheret Children's Home awaiting an HIV test, the result of which will determine his chances of being adopted and ...

ST. PAUL — Ethiopia was not on Mark and Vera Westrum-Ostrom’s list when they first visited Children’s Home Society & Family Services here to explore an international adoption. Ukraine was first, ...

new york - As the number of international adoptions by Americans plummets, Ethiopia is emphatically bucking the trend, sending record numbers of children to the United States while winning praise for ...

HILTONS -- At Robin Gardner's house, four Ethiopian children play along a creek that runs through the rhododendrons, which are shaded by hemlocks and hardwoods. The four and their five American ...

CHRISTIANSBURG — On a warm July afternoon Sophia Blaszak rolled down the hill in her backyard alongside two of her sisters. A mundane moment for many, the joyful tumbling marked a milestone the ...

While waiting at an orphanage in Ethiopia, Eyasu Walling always understood that he, along with his older brothers and sister, faced long odds. "Nobody really wants to come in and adopt four kids, ...

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 ...

ANTIOCH, Calif. -- An Antioch teenager's Sweet 16 birthday won't be a celebration of excess or even focus on her. Instead, it will be used to help orphans half way across the planet. Nubia Wilson ...

A TikTok user named Kalkidan is opening up about the dark side of international adoption in Ethiopia. On July 27, Kalkidan, a native of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, took to TikTok to share her harrowing ...

LOS ANGELES - Actress Angelina Jolie is adopting a newborn Ethiopian girl orphaned by AIDS, People magazine reported Tuesday. Jolie, who has toured the world as goodwill ambassador for the United ...