Stories: Adoption
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African Bishop Fights to Get Children to Iowa
Natalia Peni remembers sprinting into the skin-scraping bush, stilling her breath and hoping for dawn. Soldiers from the Lord's Resistance Army looted her family's home and many others in Yambio, South Sudan, that night in 2006. She was 10. Her father, Samuel Enosa Peni, an Episcopal cleric, was away. She narrowly escaped with her siblings and mother. But neighbors were...