More Details on Liberian adoption and the Child Act Bill

We received more information this morning. The Child Act Bill would specify a four month long stay for adoptive parents in Liberia. It would also specify that the orphanage would have to prove that both of the child's parents are dead.
This has grave implications to the children of Liberia. Please pray for this country as they seek to make decisions that would have a life long effect on their children.
The Bill has not passed yet...
As far as how this bill would effect us? We are not so much concerned with "our agenda" I think that died months ago when God showed us the BIGGER PICTURE.
We are striving to rest in Him, the one who gave us Lydia and Leo to pray for, the One who put a whole nation at our feet and said Pray for them.
So here we kneel before a holy God crying out for a nation thousands of miles away with heavy hearts and yet joyful expectation. For He is able to do even more than we could imagine or hope for.
Below you will find links to Unicef and Children Concerned and their agenda. It is not a good one. They think foreign adoption is child trafficking and it all must stop. For you information junkies out their I have posted the links borrowed from a friend's blog.
Here is what UNICEF says their stance is on international adoptions:
http://www.unicef.org/media/media_41118.html

Here is a Newsweek article from 2/08 on UNICEF's efforts to discourage
international adoptions: http://www.newsweek .com/id/105531

Here is some info on UNICEF's influence on Guatemalan adoptions which
are now closed:
http://www.familieswithoutborders.com/FWBstudyGuatemala.pdf

You can also go to http://www.familieswithoutborders.com/ for more
info on what Families without Borders tried to do to stop UNICEF from
shutting down adoptions in Guatemala.

In this article you can see UNICEF using the same technique of
equating adoption with child trafficking in Guatemala:
http://www.unicef.org/protection/index_exploitation.html

Here is a blog entry about UNICEF working against adoptions in the
media in regards to Switzerland:
http://international.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/anti-trafficking-day-unicef-and-not-abou


Here is some recent info on Save the Children UK:

Save the Children's stance on international adoptions in light of
Madonna's adoption:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7969416.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7974232.stm