China has officially cancelled the international adoption programme that allowed tens of thousands of Chinese orphans and abandoned children to find a new home overseas. Mao Ning, a foreign ministry ...

China has abruptly ended its three-decade-long international adoption program, resulting in orphanages in the country losing their primary source of income. At a daily briefing on Sept. 5, Chinese ...

China has called a halt to foreign adoptions of its children, leaving hundreds of families in a state of fear and uncertainty about the status of pending applications. When foreign ministry ...

On Sept. 4, China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs announced that China would no longer carry out foreign adoption work, except for a few narrow exceptions. In turn, the U.S. Department of State notified ...

After China banned international adoptions, some believers want the Chinese church to step up. Xiaofei Wang, a pastor’s wife at a house church in the Chinese port city of Xiamen, had long heard of ...

For more than three decades, thousands of children — many of them thought to have been abandoned in China — were adopted to other countries. Over half found homes in the U.S. Then, in September, China ...

Beijing should reverse its ban on foreign adoptions so special needs children can find loving homes overseas. China’s Adoption Ban Hurts Kids My younger son is a friendly, affectionate 8-year-old who ...