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A Child’s Journey
She was born in China with a rare eye disease, but she’ll grow up a ‘Bama girl

By Laura Catoe
Times Staff Writer

Charli Grace Strawn

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Chad and Jennifer Strawn adopted Charli from China this April, but she’s been living with them on medical visa since July 2008.

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Miraculous Journey For Abandoned Girl From China
Reporting Don Shelby
ST. PAUL (WCCO) ―
Only 10 days after she was born, a young girl named Junfen was abandoned in China because she had a cleft lip and palate. But that isn’t the only hardship the young girl faced. She also has severe scoliosis.
Now, at the age of 7, [...]

Sunday, May 10, 2009
By SLOAN BREWSTER, Press staff
MIDDLETOWN — Joanne Swift said U.S. adoption agencies refused to even consider her and her husband, Bob Vess, as potential adoptive parents.
That’s why they turned to China.
“I chose China because we had four biological children at the time and there was no one else that would consider [us],” [...]

www.chinaview.cn 2009-05-08 08:51:35
BEIJING, May 8 — The reason only 12 earthquake orphans have been adopted by new families is because authorities have been respecting the wishes of the children, the head of Sichuan civil affairs bureau told a press conference days before the one-year anniversary of the earthquake Thursday in Chengdu.
“Most of the orphans prefer [...]

Thin bodies make good parents
It’s Down to This
By: Kimberly Tsao
Posted: 5/6/09
“Child seeks married parents, under 50, skinny and pretty. No antidepressant medicine for the last two years. Must meet economic and educational standards.”
China has enforced stricter adoption laws since May 2007, according to a Time magazine article. In the past, I have kept my mouth [...]

In the aftermath of last year’s massive earthquake in Sichuan province that left close to 90,000 dead or missing, China saw an outpouring of requests by people around the country to adopt children orphaned by the disaster. An adoption hotline received hundreds of inquiries in the days following the quake, and authorities said orphans would [...]

The orphan ministry of acclaimed CCM artist Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife, Mary Beth, has changed its name from Shaohannah’s Hope to Show Hope, according to an announcement last week.
Tue, Apr. 28, 2009 Posted: 02:33 PM EDT

The orphan ministry of acclaimed CCM artist Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife, Mary Beth, has changed [...]

By Kayla Webley / Hong Kong
Becky Freer says adopting a ten-month-old baby girl from China is the best thing she has ever done. When Freer, a 44-year-old resident of Austin, Texas, recently decided to further expand her family by adopting a sister for her now three-and-a-half year old daughter, she thought China was the obvious [...]

It’s not unusual for emotions to run high at the Dove Awards, the Gospel Music Association’s annual celebration of faith-based music, but Thursday night’s show was an especially poignant event. Christian music veteran Steven Curtis Chapman’s wins in the Artist and Songwriter of the Year categories were bittersweet coming near the first anniversary of his [...]

STAFF PHOTOS / DAN WAGNER

Zheng Shenglong, calligrapher and art professor at Xiamen University in China, paints bamboo during a demonstration at the Art Center Sarasota on Sunday. Shenglong and watercolor artist Luo Ping are spending a week in Sarasota.
By John Davis
john.davis@heraldtribune.com

Published: Monday, April 20, 2009 at 1:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, April [...]