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Our friends at the Congressional Coalition for Adoption Institute (CCAI) on Wednesday released, Renewed Promise: The Welfare of Children in Haiti. This report highlights lessons learned from the emergency relief and recovery efforts that have taken place this past year, and focuses federal policymakers on the needs that continue to exist related to orphaned and [...]
Category Archives: Haiti and Orphans
Join to Pray for Haiti on Your Time
Yesterday’s virtual prayer gathering on the anniversary of Haiti’s devastating earthquake was deeply meaningful. Scott Vair did a tremendous job planning it, with an array of church and organization leaders highlighting Scripture and then praying for specific issues and needs. We prayed fervently and in unity. The requests—comfort for the mourning, strength and skill for [...]
Anniversary of Haiti’s Earthquake: Join the Virtual Prayer Gathering
January 12th will mark one year since the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Those few moments and their aftermath took hundreds of thousands of lives, left many more homeless, and affected countless children in profound and permanent ways, including leaving many as orphans. The eye of the media has largely moved on to other stories, but [...]
Help Haiti Act Passes
This week, Congress gave final approval to the Help Haiti Act. This bill clears the path for citizenship for the over 1,000 Haitian orphans brought to the United States by adoptive families following Haiti’s devastating earthquake. The bill now awaits President Obama’s signature, which is expected. A statement on the bill’s passage from House Majority [...]
Whittling Compassion: Trying to Discern Where God Wants Us to Focus
Last month marked the half-year anniversary since Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake. Aside from the small uptick in coverage at the milestone, the eyes of the world have largely turned elsewhere: oil leaks, soccer matches, November elections. Of course, this was all but inevitable. The 24-hour news cycle is fueled by “new,” and tales of ongoing struggle, [...]
NY Times on Haiti Adoptions: Missing the Bigger Story
Yesterday’s NY Times article on U.S. adoptions from Haiti was a mixed bag. (My letter to the editor of the NY Times is below). The article did raise many of the complex and difficult issues that come with inter-country adoption, including a number that adoption advocates of every stripe must take very seriously. Ultimately, however, [...]
Haiti—6 Months In
Today marks the six month anniversary of Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake. Aside from the small uptick of coverage surrounding the 6-month milestone, the eyes of the world havelargely turned elsewhere: to oil leaks, soccer matches and November elections. Of course, this was all but inevitable. The 24-hour news cycle is fueled by “new,” and a tale [...]
With Summit Days Away, New Christianity Today Article on Orphans and Adoption
Summit VI is just days away, and energy and enthusiasm for the conference is running in high gear. Meanwhile, the featured article today from Christianity Today’s highlights orphan care and adoption vis-a-vis recent events in Haiti. The article tags Summit as a key part of the Christian orphan movement, carrying a great quote from Dr. [...]
Christianity Today Weighs in On International Adoption and the Orphan Crisis
April’s edition of Christian Today contains an important editorial on international adoption and the biblical call to care for the fatherless. Significantly, the editorial holds together two elements that are sometimes falsely presented as being at odds with each other: support of in-country orphan care efforts, alongside strong affirmation of inter-country adoption for children that [...]
US CIS Concludes Special Humanitarian Parole Program
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced they will conclude their Special Humanitarian Parole Program for Haitian Orphans on April 14, 2010. This special provision allowed for expedited immigration for children that had been determined to be orphans and officially matched with an adoptive family prior to Haiti’s earthquake. To date, more than 1,000 [...]
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