It is estimated there are between 143 million and 200 million orphans worldwide.
Approximately 250,000 children are adopted annually, BUT...
Every day 5, 760 more children become orphans.
Each year 14, 505,000 children grow up as orphans and age out of the system by age sixteen.
Every 2.2. seconds another orphan ages out with no family to go to and no place to call home.
(Stats courtesy of recent UNICEF numbers, see link)
James 1:27 says:
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress..."
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