From fitness to mental-health ritual, swimming is a national pastime. And for many, a dip has helped them overcome adversity.

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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 ...

Richard Lawson's two children followed in his footsteps and work in the entertainment industry Monica Schipper/Getty ; Amber Reign Smith/Instagram While Tyler Perry's hit Netflix series Beauty in ...

Eight kids suspected to have been stolen from Kano State between 2017 and 2022 have been rescued from an orphanage in Asaba, Delta State by officials of the National Agency for the Prohibition of ...

Eight children suspected to have been stolen from Kano State between 2017 and 2022 have been rescued from an Orphanage in Asaba, Delta State, by officials of the National Agency for the Prohibition of ...

Using advanced DNA techniques, police identified the remains of a Pennsylvania woman who was found mortally wounded in Maryland field nearly 55 years ago. She died two months later. The recent break ...

Many former residents of the orphanage reported abuse by Catholic leaders. A memorial honoring residents of the former St. Joseph's Orphanage, where many children described abuse at the hands of ...

When the Syrian regime fell in December, its secrets began to emerge from the rubble. One of its darkest secrets: the forced disappearance of hundreds of children. They were taken from their parents ...

On the morning of Sunday, Aug. 3, nine people working at an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, were kidnapped. Among them was a lay missionary and a disabled child, barely 3 years old.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Eight people, including an Irish missionary and a 3-year-old child, remained missing Monday after gunmen stormed an orphanage in Haiti, the latest attack in an area controlled ...

The abductees, including an Irish missionary who directs care for children with special needs, were taken from an orphanage serving about 270 children. By Ephrat Livni and David C. Adams A 3-year-old ...