Sentences with phrase «orphan children who»

In fact, it was during World War I that a Sunday school teacher named Gertrude Chandler Warner first got the idea for a series of stories about four orphan children who live together in an abandoned boxcar.

Based on the book by Ransom Riggs, and starring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Chris O'Dowd, Ella Purnell, Allison Janney, Rupert Everett, Terence Stamp, Judi Dench and Samuel L. Jackson, the story follows a teenager who finds himself protecting the oddball orphaned children who live on a mysterious island.

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For some it may mean that «there is an orphaned state required for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, in which a man who like all others is the child of his parents must symbolize with his being and action the present but hidden creation which is not a mere prolongation of the old, but the new creation in relation to which the old has already passed away...» This is, therefore, the first word that must be spoken: of discontinuity between the kingdom of God and any earthly order, even one as significant as the family.

Set in a timeless desert unfettered by any particular time period, Habibi tells the story of Dodola and Zam, two orphaned slave children who find love and security in each other.

Upon hearing the young man's name, the Nobel Prize «winning novelist asked: «Aren't you the child who, having been left an orphan by his poor mother and distanced himself from his father, went off to live the life of the kibbutz?

- how you can call yourself «family values» voters while supporting Trump's mass deportation, which would orphan or displace 4.5 million children who are U.S. citizens but who have at least one parent who is an undocumented immigrant,

And Help One Now is a catalytic tribe committed to empowering and resourcing high - capacity local leaders who care for orphans and vulnerable children in order to transform communities and break the cycle of extreme poverty.

Since then they have established an adoption fund and have teams of people who are raising money, running marathons for orphaned children, and partnering with other churches both locally and globally to bring hope to orphans.

They are active partners with a church in Haiti that has taken in children who were orphaned after the earthquake.

That is, we may believe that the best possible person is a soft - hearted nun who cares for orphaned pigeons, but in Singer's eyes, the rather disagreeable cur who cheats at checkers, ignores his children, and is rude to waitresses may be the more ethical person if by giving away lots of money he saves lives.

We urgently need to design pastoral strategies (and even select the times for our meetings and worship services) according to the needs of that great mass of excluded people who form part of non-traditional families: single mothers, families divided by divorce, grandmothers who raise their grandchildren, widows, orphans, street children, etc..

ACT Founder and Director Dr Kunle Onabolu told Premier they «provide education for children of widows and orphans in Africa, but also to empower widows who are poor in rural African community, to provide them with counselling, training and business skills so they generate income sustainably.»

From filmmaker Steve Hoover and executive producer Terrence Malick, the documentary Almost Holy follows a vigilante pastor in the Ukraine nicknamed «Crocodile Gennadiy» who goes to extreme — at times controversial — measure to save orphaned, street children from drug addition and predators.

Say: «Come, let me convey unto you what G - D has [really] forbidden to you: «Do not ascribe divinity, in any way, to anything (or anyone) beside HIM; and [do not offend against but, rather,] do good unto your parents; and do not kill your children (born or unborn) for fear of poverty --[for] it is WE who shall provide sustenance for you as well as for them; and do not commit any shameful deeds, be they open or secret; and do not take any human being's life -[the life] which G - D has declared to be sacred - otherwise than in [the pursuit of] justice: this has HE enjoined upon you so that you might use your reason; and do not touch the substance of an orphan — except to improve it - before he comes of age.»

We need to sign up 100 child sponsors in Drouin whose kids are vulnerable to trafficking and 100 hosts for a Garage Sale for Orphans to build a preschool for children who have been rescued from trafficking while we're here on the ground.

We want to sign up 100 child sponsors in Drouin whose kids are vulnerable to trafficking and 100 hosts for a Garage Sale for Orphans to build a preschool for children who have been rescued from trafficking while we're here on the ground.

It supports rapist priests who abuse children, but complains about women's health care.I can understand that because, if there are no unwanted (orphan) children, where will they get the kids for fulfilling their fantasies!

So, either God is a rather poor parent who doesn't raise his «children'to be anyway independent of him, like a proper parent should, or he has and we atheists are his mature offspring who can carry on with our lives after he has left our lives, or we are all really «orphans» without divine parents, but only some of us actually realize this.

So when a tsunami wipes out 200,000 people and leaves millions homeless and creates 100,000 + orphaned children, that is somehow suppose to be for the good (the good of who)?

Although there are people in Los Angeles who are struggling tremendously, we don't know intense poverty and pain like the untouchables do in India or the children orphaned and living on the streets of Zambia or Brazil.

RODS Racing is comprised of 40 superior athletes who will collectively compete in more than 224 marathons, triathlons and other events this year, raising money to find homes in the United States for orphaned children with Down syndrome who live in other parts of the world.

With a generous $ 50,000 donation from the IPC, RODS Racing was able to double the size of its team to more than 100 athletes who have each pledged to raise $ 1,000 to help find homes in the United States for orphaned children with Down syndrome.

Today sporting ubuntu extends from the street kid in Rio who, thanks to boxing, is transformed from avenging tough into potential Olympian; to the African AIDS orphan who, thanks to soccer, has a better chance of living long enough to raise children of her own; to the Arab girl in West Jerusalem who, thanks to basketball, feels bound to the fortunes of a Jewish Israeli player in the NBA.

In the best of circumstances, adoption creates a loving family for a child who has been orphaned.

In an ad for their new Annie - inspired clothing line (which I'm assuming consists of both rags for the informal orphan and princess dresses for the more formal adopted child of a millionaire), Target has conveniently featured a random Caucasian girl instead of the film's star, Quvenzhané Wallis, who is African - American.

The definition of an adoptable orphan in most westernized countries is a child who has lost both parents.

The father of attachment theory is John Bowlby, a British psychoanalyst who in the mid — 20th century studied orphans and children abandoned by their mothers.»

Adoption is said to be «Christian», but interestingly many of the «Christian» adoption agencies facilitate ONLY infant adoptions, not adoptions of older children who may be real orphans.

This can be common with orphaned or adopted children, as well as those who are neglected, abused, or abandoned in early years.

As a bit of history, the theory began when Bowlby was asked to study orphaned infants and children after WWII who presented with myriad problems — socially, emotionally, and cognitively — and he determined that the cause of these problems stemmed from a lack of maternal involvement.

A child who has lost his parents is called an orphan.

«They are mostly women, and children who are orphaned.

Official government estimates put the number of «orphans» (the term is used loosely to include children who have been abandoned, and in fact have one or both parents still living — the Chinese term for orphan, gu'er (孤儿)-- literally «solitary / lonely child» accommodates this) in China at over half a million as of 2011.

Orphanages are located in urban centers; orphans and abandoned children in rural areas (who account for around 85 % of the total orphan population) do not have access to these state - run institutions.

She said: «Over 70 % of the people in IDP camps are women and children who have been rendered orphans and widows.

But children who lost a mother fared even worse — they were shorter, poorer and did not live as long as fatherless orphans.

But McKenzie, who has studied the alumni of orphanages in the U.S. — and was an orphan himself, growing up in the Barium Springs Home for Children, an orphanage in North Carolina — says that the conclusion of the paper «doesn't surprise me as much as it might others.»

Although the authors do not advocate for sending all orphaned or abandoned children to institutions, «it is not an option that should be taken off the table — and it could be very appropriate for children who don't have another place to go,» Whetten says.

But children in orphanages in less wealthy countries appear to be doing just as well as their orphaned or abandoned counterparts who live in private homes — even those living with family members — according to a new study that examined the well - being of some 3,000 children in five countries.

Children with just one dead parent are technically considered orphans (those who have lost both parents are considered «double - orphans»).

Now a group reports that children who started life as neglected orphans show long - term deficiencies in hormones related to social attachment.

i am a orphan who was raised in children homes...

Both were orphans from distant planets who were sent to Earth as children (hello, Superman) when their home planets were being sucked into a black hole.

On her way to work the following spring, Hind is met by dozens of sobbing, traumatized young children, who have been orphaned in the Deir Yassin massacre.

Putting a fresh twist on familiar genre concepts, this coming - of - age thriller follows Anna (Bel Powley), an orphaned teenager who escapes her troubled upbringing at the hands of an abusive caretaker (Brad Dourif) who cements her fear of a child - eating monster known as the Wildling.

There's also a landfill that seems to take up half the island, and it's home to a thriving society of those «forgotten children»: a cabal of orphaned rats turned savage predators, who chant, «The future is past, garbage is the present, blood is our law!»

Planetary rules and prejudices are unknown or at least unappreciated by Adam, an orphan from below, and Eden, a girl from above, who begin a friendship as children at the mountaintops where their worlds are closest.

Pan Film Review by Kam Williams Orphan Abducted to Neverland in Overstimulating Peter Pan Prequel Everyone's familiar with Peter Pan, the much - beloved children's classic revolving around the magical adventures of a little boy who can fly and won't grow up.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople follows the story of Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison), an orphaned city kid described as «a really bad egg» by his Child Protection Officer Paula, who having been dropped off at his new home, finds it lacking and decides to run away.

The emotionally naked Hawkins is unforgettable as Elisa, an orphan who was abused as a child (her vocal chords were cut) and now makes a living cleaning up messes at an underground government facility in Baltimore, circa 1962.