By Bree Bailey This June, 32 pregnant Cambodian moms were arrested on the grounds of trafficking their unborn children. These women were acting as surrogate mothers for Chinese families and planned to sell their babies after giving birth. Women declared that they had been offered up to $10,000 for this ...
Bree Bailey | Contributor "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." Luke 4:18 (NIV) The ...
By Bree Bailey | Contributor Children who are survivors of sexual abuse face lifelong emotional and physical consequences that can be detrimental to their well-being if not handled carefully. For many years, children in Australia did not receive the help they desperately needed due to a flawed system ...
Bree Bailey | Contributor Baldemar Velasquez grew up in a family of immigrant farmworkers in Southern Texas. At the young age of five, he spent his days in the fields alongside his parents working long days in the hot sun. Outside of their control, his family was transferred to Ohio, where they did ...
Bree Bailey | Contributor Young Anmar left for school one morning just as she had every other day. To her horror, when she arrived, the building where she had spent every weekday for her education was reduced to rubble. Her family quickly fled for their lives from their home in Aleppo, Syria and sought ...
By Bree Bailey | Echo The merciless slaughter of a people group called the Rohingya is happening today in the country of Myanmar (Burma). At the beginning of December, around 650,000 Rohingya had fled their country trying to escape the murder, rape and other attacks that began in late August. However, ...
By Bree Bailey | Contributor Raging conflict and continuous earthquakes have left hundreds of thousands in desperation. On Feb. 26, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake shook Papua New Guinea (PNG) to the core. Since that day, over 200 more aftershock tremors have occurred. This constant state of insecurity has ...
By Bree Bailey | Contributor Some believe North and South Korea may finally be easing tensions after 65 long years of conflict, while others see recent actions as merely surface level. At the opening ceremonies for the 2018 Olympics, North Korea and South Korea were seen entering as one unified team. ...
By Bree Bailey | Contributor Frostbite covers three-year-old Sarah, leaving a large black scab across her non-smiling face. All she has known her whole life is the war raging in her home country of Syria for the past seven years. As she lays in the hospital with various tubes attached to her tiny body, ...
By Bree Bailey | Contributor The Indonesian island of Bali is a well known vacation getaway. However, this week, rather than maps for tourists, they are distributing masks for locals. Ash filled the air as Mt. Agung erupted on Saturday. Authorities issued the highest-level warning possible for everyone ...
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