Family

WASHINGTON (BP) – International adoptions that were halted for about 300 U.S. families can resume on a case-by-case approval basis after the U.S. State Department granted a National Interest Exception impacting immigrant adoptees from more than 70 countries.

GLENDIVE, Mont. – When a pastor is called to a new place of ministry, he takes his family with him. That might not affect the toddlers in the family, but what about teenagers? What about the pastor’s wife?

WASHINGTON (BP) – Grace Pierre Dowey, a 10-year-old girl living in a Haitian orphanage near Port Au Prince, knows she has a family in the U.S. She’s met her adoptive parents Ted and Ashley Dowey and her four siblings on Zoom, but that’s the extent of it.

Sherrill Keown Holloman didn’t expect to fall in love again — not after losing her husband tragically, not after 18 years of carrying on alone, and certainly not with someone she hadn’t seen in 51 years.

What a month it has been. News of tragedy from back home. The skies here are threatened. It can feel like some great darkness is encroaching.

(RNS) — James C. Dobson, psychologist, best-selling author, popular radio host and well-known advocate for family values, died Thursday (Aug. 21). He was 89.

“Wedding of the Century” is a term tossed around far more often than every 100 years.

BOULDER, Colo. (BP) – Pastors trail other Christians in relational flourishing and many say their ministry challenges their marriages and families, Barna and Gloo said in the latest 2025 State of the Church release.

MUSTANG, Okla. (BP) – It was a Sunday, and Jason Doran really wanted to talk to his son.

BOGART, Ga. (BP) – In a society that too often highlights the faults of fathers, Southern Baptist author and pastor Josh Smith encourages churches this Father’s Day to empower and remind them of the gift of fatherhood.