Our family has been keeping a secret!! @michaelsobolik and I honored and excited to announce that we’re pursuing another adoption from India. We chose to hold this news close for a little while, but the time has come to celebrate with our village — and we are SO glad to finally share it with you! We are just a couple of months away from being in the matching process (awaiting USCIS and India approval). When we adopted Dev, it was a year between matching and travel to India, but it’s been shortened to 6 months, so we’re anticipating (and hoping for) a shorter process this time around. In 2023, we welcomed our son Dev home from India through international adoption. We have been utterly amazed at how the Lord has worked in our lives over the past 6 years (we began our first adoption process in 2020). He has been faithful to us in every stage and season. He’s reminded us again and again of His great love for us — and our son. He’s given us wisdom and patience, when we were stretched beyond ourselves. He’s given us more joy than we thought possible We always tell Dev that adoption means he is loved and chosen. We remind our dear son of the story of how the Lord adopts us into his family, calls us his very own children, and invites us to call him “Father.” We will soon have the privilege of telling this story to our second dear child. They say “it takes a village” to raise a child, but for adoptive families, it often takes a village to bring them home, too. We can’t do the adoption process alone—we don’t have all the physical, mental, or emotional resources we need. Hundreds of people were involved, in some capacity, in bringing our son home, and we’re already looking forward with anticipation to how the Lord will write our family’s story for our second adoption. 🎉We are thrilled to share that we’ve been awarded a $4000 matching grant Fund administered by We Care for Orphans in Indiana and a $3000 matching grant Fund administered by @LifesongOrphans! If you’re interested in financially supporting our adoption, your gift will be doubled. From the bottom of our hearts — thank you. We are eternally grateful for the people who chose to enter into our story! ♥️ Chelsea and Michael

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As President Trump meets with Xi today, I’m holding on to hope that her name will be raised and that she can finally come home. Thank you, @FoxNews, for sharing our story. #FreeGulshanAbbas

Uyghur American Ziba Murat is making an emotional plea to President Trump as he meets with Chinese leader Xi Jinping: bring my mother home. Dr. Gulshar Abbas, a retired doctor and grandmother, was seized from her home in China in 2018 — six days after her sister publicly spoke out about the Chinese government's brutal oppression of the Uyghur people. She was convicted on terrorism charges her family calls "made up" and sentenced to 20 years in prison. She's now served eight of them. Murat's daughter was three months old when her grandmother disappeared. She's now eight — and starting to ask questions her mother can't answer. House Speaker Mike Johnson has advocated for Abbas' release, and Murat was his guest at the 2026 State of the Union. But with the Trump-Xi summit underway, the family sees a narrow window to finally push her case to the top. Full story here ⬇️ foxnews.com/politics/daughte…

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Securing Dr. Abbas’s release would be a victory for people of every faith the CCP tries to break, and a clear message to Chinese leadership that the U.S. has the upper hand and intends to use it for freedom—not just market access. @DCSas Thank you! newsweek.com/speak-up-for-th…

Thank you for your leadership, @SenatorLankford

For 105 years, the Chinese Communist Party has oppressed its own people, persecuted people of faith, and denied basic freedoms. As the US engages with Beijing, we cannot forget the millions who have suffered under the CCP or those who continue to live under its repression today. foxnews.com/politics/biparti…

This op-ed at @Newsweek from @DCSas is spot on! "Asking for the release of Dr. Abbas is not a detour from America First. It is how you handle a Communist government that jails people for their faith, punishes American families for speaking up, and then expects us to take its word at the table. Advocating for religious freedom is in our national security interest. The same Communist Party that cages a Uyghur doctor and a house-church pastor is testing whether it can intimidate Americans and still sit across from the President as an equal. Speak up for those who cannot speak. Even if they don’t pray like you." newsweek.com/speak-up-for-th…

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Eight years ago, Gulshan Abbas was detained by the CCP and sentenced to 20 years in prison after her sister spoke out about the ongoing genocide facing Uyghurs at a Hudson Institute event. Abbas's case is a clear example of transnational repression targeting Americans. When Trump meets with Xi this week, he should request her immediate and unconditional release, @OliviaEnos writes. forbes.com/sites/oliviaenos/…

Thank you for these comments, @VictoriaCoates !!

The United States joins others in taking a stand against hostage-taking and unjust detention this week at the United Nations, as member states gather for the annual General Assembly. This horrific practice has no place in international relations.

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In his speech on the Senate floor, @SenatorDurbin called for the release of Dr. Gulshan Abbas, Jimmy Lai, Gao Quanfu and his wife Pang Yu, and Ekpar Asat durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/p…

The Chinese Communist Party’s detention of many political prisoners is an offense against freedom and international human rights. The United States must stand and speak up for people of faith everywhere in the world and I call for their immediate release.

Me, when @michaelsobolik brings me a margarita for taco Tuesday! 🫶🏽🤌🏽

House VAT Chairman Robert Aderholt Calls on China to Release Political Prisoners Thank you @Robert_Aderholt aderholt.house.gov/media-cen…

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) thanks C-SPAN for covering hearing on political and religious persecution in China: "They have chosen to amplify your voices...and I am very very grateful that more Americans now will get to see your appeal..."

8 years is too long for an innocent Uyghur to suffer behind bars in #China. It’s well past time to #FreeGulshanAbbas. My latest @Forbes: forbes.com/sites/oliviaenos/…

This week, Gulshan Abbas will sit in a prison cell in China – as she has done for the last eight years – serving time for crimes she did not commit. She is likely unaware that President Trump and Xi Jinping are on the precipice of meeting amidst ongoing diplomacy between the U.S. and China. Or that her freedom, among many other issues, will be a topic of discussion and negotiation as the two leaders meet. forbes.com/sites/oliviaenos/…