Flashbacks: In honor of William and Queen Miller, The News Leader is reprinting lightly edited stories by Charles Culbertson ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — In the fall of 2018, Syrian security forces dragged a mother and her 2-year-old daughter, Hiba, from their home and detained them. The mother, Sukayna Jebawi, says that they were ...

A new historic marker in Staunton honors William Ashby and Queen Elizabeth Miller, who raised over 300 Black children between ...

The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) has called on churches, ministries and Christian donors worldwide to move away from long ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. — When Brenda Hannon was 8 years old, a nun punched her in the face. It was 1961, and Hannon was living here at St. Joseph’s Orphanage. Her transgression? She refused to eat the peanut ...

CAIRO (AP) — At least 60 infants, toddlers and older children perished over the past six weeks while trapped in harrowing conditions in an orphanage in Sudan’s capital as fighting raged outside. Most ...

Russian positions are just across the Dnipro River and Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine, is under regular attack. Like many Ukrainians during this war, Olena prefers not to share her last name. She ...

A young girl's life changed forever when she was separated from her mother at a New Delhi railway station. After years of ...

A bedroom in an orphanage that houses orphaned and abandoned children in the Syrian capital Damascus. These orphanages have faced the wrath of Syrians since the Assad regime was toppled in early ...

The number may have been even higher. One person with knowledge of the largest orphanage in Damascus, where at least dozens of children may have been placed, told NPR that she suspected the orphanage ...