According to UNICEF, there are 990,000 orphaned children in Nepal. But, for the two N.B. adoptive families who are in Nepal and praying to come home with the precious children, only two children “count” today. Thank you for praying for all of the American families who are in Nepal, who have been matched with orphaned children, and those who “unmatched” continue to believe that God called them to adopt from Nepal.
New Beginnings is no longer accepting applications for the Nepal adoption program. For all “abandonment cases,” with the exception of those that are already in “the pipeline,” the U.S. State Department suspended adoptions on August 6th, 2010. The State Department stated that the pipeline cases would continue to be processed in the same memo.
Adoptive families in “pipeline” cases were provided with additional information about travel late in the day on August 11th.
For more information, please visit http://adoption.state.gov/news/nepalalerts.html