KAMPALA, Uganda — Laker Fatuma’s big smile threatens to turn up the wattage in the already bright Ugandan sky as she rolls bright-green beads in the shade of a mango tree. Fatuma has reason to smile: ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

I should have suspected something was up when Clementine approached her father instead of me to discuss her impending eighth birthday. But at the time I was distracted by plans for a four-day trip I ...

The manufacture of rosaries (a string of beads and also known as Navagunawela in Sinhalese and Mala in Tamil) is a traditional cottage industry in several villages in Kataragama area and also in ...