SEATTLE - The Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle and a New York-based Catholic order have agreed to pay $14.2 million to two dozen men who were sexually abused at a Kent orphanage in the 1950s and '60s.

The Archdiocese of Seattle has been sued by seven men who say it and a Catholic order didn't stop two clergymen from abusing them at a high school and church-run orphanage from the 1950s into the ...

An NPR investigation finds that more than 350 Syrian children were secretly placed in orphanages across the capital, Damascus, when the Assad regime was in power. Now, some of them cannot be found.