Fake passport used to take adopted child Home

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By, Angel Tesorero/Dubai The Philippine consulate officials have caught a Filipina expat using a fake Philippine passport to bring her “adopted baby back home,” Consul Ferdinand Flores revealed to reporters on Wednesday night. According to Flores, “the husband of the Filipina expat bought a bogus passport in the Philippines for P75,000 (Dh5,900) to take to the Philippines a two-year-old baby …

Thousands of children being stolen from Africa: Atlanta Black Star

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Each year hundreds of African children are abducted and brought to the United States….. Source: Watch How Thousands of Children Are Being Stolen From Africa Under the Guise of Adoption   https://adoptionland.org/huffingtonpost-article/ https://adoptionland.org/p/6471/manufactured-orphans/ For news on industry practices, go to Adoptionland.org To get a copy of Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists visit here.

Spanish nuns accused of taking babies

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By Hannah Tooley A pair of nuns in Spain are under investigation over allegations of stealing 13 babies whose mothers gave them up for adoption. Sister Carmen Longatela Latas, 82, and Sister Carmen Vazquez Lamela, 88, have been indicted by a court on suspicion of tricking or forging mothers to give up their children. The nuns deny the accusations. According …

Inquiry into postwar adoption policies can start healing process

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Hundreds of thousands of unmarried mothers were systematically and often violently separated from their babies simply because of their marital status. Many Canadians are unaware that in the immediate postwar decades, federal and provincial governments funded draconian adoption policies that harmed unmarried mothers across Canada. This is being referred to by scholars as the “adoption mandate” or the “Baby Scoop …

Lebanon’s disappeared children: The darker side of international adoption

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By, Changiz M. Varzi Nearly 10,000 adoptees have been given to foreign parents since the 1960s but many face huge obstacles discovering their origins. BEIRUT – It was a life-changing day in September 1963, when a young American woman entered Beirut’s St Vincent de Paul orphanage and was shown to a row of children in their beds. Back in the US, …