Christians needed to love orphans in Russia

POSTED: 12 MARCH, 2010

Topics in this story: babies , christians , mission trip , orphans , russia , vbs

MNN and Orphan Outreach are teaming up together to take a team to Russia.

Russia (MNN) ? There are more than 700,000 orphan and street children in Russia alone. With drug and alcohol abuse, HIV/AIDS, and a poor economy, the situation isn't getting any better. More and more children are becoming wards of the state. That means more and more are ending up in "the system." They're institutionalized. They're placed in orphanages.

IAML Representative at Hague Conference

Dear Fellow,

The IAML have been invited to send a representative to participate as an observer in the Third meeting of the Special Commission to review the practical operation of theHague Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, to take place on 17-25 June 2010 in The Hague, Netherlands.

The meeting will address the following broad themes:

Discussion on the abduction, sale and traffic in children in the context of adoption (1 day)

We Are Now Opened in Serbia!

It just keeps on getting better, with new programs opened up in India and Bulgaria, we are excited to add Serbia to the group!

Read more for details on the new program…

Processes and Procedures

• Complete and submit the Application for Adoption.

Mothers looking for answers after losing babies

11 Mar, 2010 08:51 AM

SUE never wanted to give her baby away.

But like so many other pregnant, unwed teenage girls in the 1960s, she had no choice.

Now 58, Sue has spent most of her live grieving for her baby girl lost through the “wicked” government-sanctioned adoption policies of the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s.

Win a raffle, become a parent

By Josephine Marcotty, Star Tribune

Last update: March 11, 2010 - 6:59 PM

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March 11, 2010

waiting.

In two months Donald and I will celebrate 12 years of marriage. The majority of those 12 years have been spent waiting for something . . .

First we waited to find out if we were pregnant. Then we waited for discouraging infertility results from doctor after doctor. Then we waited for our courageous birthmoms to find us, and we waited for each of our children to join our family through one miracle after another.

10 March 2010

Couple wait for adoption paperwork to be approved by Canadian High Commission

A Canadian couple from the province of British Columbia have been caught in bureaucratic limbo while in the process of adopting twin boys from Ghana.

The Canadian High Commission in Ghana was not convinced that the death certificate of the children’s mother is a legitimate document, a concern in the region where child trafficking is common.

Andrea Bastin and her husband Michael Segal, from Bowen Island near Vancouver, say they have since produced the proper death certificate along with hospital records and affidavits from the mother’s family.

Nepal

PLEASE NOTE: New registrations for Nepal are currently being accepted for the 2011 waitlist.

CHOICES clients have been adopting from Nepal for the past nine years. We are pleased to announce that Nepal is open and the 2009 and 2010 dossier quotas have been filled. We are currently accepting new applications for January 2011.

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Nepal Closure

9 MARCH 2010

bad news

Well, the news out of Bulgaria is bad news :(

Since our case was assigned to a judge that is not "adoption friendly",

we have, of course, already run in to a problem with completing the adoption.

Invalid death certificate puts BC couple in African adoption limbo

March, 9, 2010 - 08:30 pm Mertl, Steve - (THE CANADIAN PRESS)

VANCOUVER -A B.C. couple has been separated for months after its effort to adopt twin boys from Ghana turned into a bureaucratic nightmare.

Andrea Bastin, a filmmaker from Bowen Island near Vancouver, has been living in the West African country since August as she tries to convince the Canadian High Commission there that the boys' mother died giving birth.

But her effort is complicated by the fact the death certificate she first submitted turned out to be bogus, raising a red flag in a region where child trafficking is common.