BUCHAREST -- The fall of communism in Romania decades ago lifted the lid on the country's infamous network of orphanages, shocking the world with images of dirty and underfed children, most dressed in ...

More than seventy years ago, psychologist Rene Spitz first described the detrimental effects of emotional neglect on children raised in institutions, and yet, today, over 7 million children are ...

Church responds to lawsuits claiming abuse in orphanages it supported: “The target here should be the alleged perpetrator, not our church.” Two Romanian men claim a church in California is responsible ...

Abandoned at birth, I grew up in Romanian orphanages. Today I lead Eastern Europe’s largest Christian music festival. I was born in Romania in 1989, just nine months before the Communist dictatorship ...