Supreme Court to Decide Whether Faith-Based Foster Agencies Can Decline to Place Children in Same-Sex Homes

Supreme Court to Decide Whether Faith-Based Foster Agencies Can Decline to Place Children in Same-Sex Homes

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear the case of Fulton v. Philadelphia, an appeal that will decide whether or not faith-based foster and adoption agencies nationwide may decline to place children in same-sex households, or whether states and municipalities have a right to force them to comply with […]

Tenn. Senate Passes Bill Protecting Faith-Based Foster, Adoption Agencies’ Free Exercise of Religion

Tenn. Senate Passes Bill Protecting Faith-Based Foster, Adoption Agencies’ Free Exercise of Religion

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Senators in Tennessee have passed a bill allowing faith-based foster and adoption agencies to operate in  accordance with their religious convictions and prohibiting the State from denying licenses to such organizations because of their placement policies. With a vote of 20-6, the measure was the first bill passed by the state Senate […]

Appeals Court to Hear Legal Challenge of Christian Adoption Agency Forced to Change Placement Policy or Close

Appeals Court to Hear Legal Challenge of Christian Adoption Agency Forced to Change Placement Policy or Close

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Second Circuit Court of Appeals will soon hear the case of a New York foster and adoption agency that is facing an ultimatum from the State to either allow placement in homes where there is not both a mother and a father or discontinue its child placement services altogether. The court […]

Calls From Over 40 States, 10 Countries Pour in to Help or Adopt Newborn Abandoned in Plastic Bag

Calls From Over 40 States, 10 Countries Pour in to Help or Adopt Newborn Abandoned in Plastic Bag

CUMMING, Ga. — The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia states that it has received phone calls and messages from over 40 states and 10 countries expressing interest in either donating toward or adopting a newborn baby who was found abandoned in a wooded area on the side of the road. “We would like to […]

Chinese Boy Without Ears Who Yearned to Be Adopted Now Happily Living With Forever Family

Chinese Boy Without Ears Who Yearned to Be Adopted Now Happily Living With Forever Family

A Chinese boy who was featured in a documentary last year about children in China who live in medical orphanages has now been adopted and lives with his forever family in Singapore. As previously reported, Wu Keyuan, now 8, was born without external ears and ear canals and had been abandoned outside an orphanage just a few days […]

Chinese Boy Born Without Ears, Abandoned Days After Birth, Yearns for Adoptive Family

Chinese Boy Born Without Ears, Abandoned Days After Birth, Yearns for Adoptive Family

An Asian television program that aired on Tuesday centered on disabled children in China who live in medical orphanages, specifically the story of a young Chinese boy who was born without ears, and who is waiting patiently for an adoptive family despite two years of watching others be chosen first. Wu Keyuan, 7, had been abandoned […]