According to Father Michael Doyle, crime and poverty in Camden, New Jersey are worse today than when he first arrived there 39 years ago. But through his church's ministry of feeding, housing, and educating the poor, Father Doyle sees hope for what the FBI considers the most dangerous city in ...

The bishops of the East and West meet in Istanbul; groups counter terrorist appeals to young Muslims; a vision in Mexico of the Virgin Mary inspires millions.

"East and West are not contradictory to each other. They are part of the same body,” says Metropolitan Elpidophoros, a bishop in the Greek Orthodox Church in Istanbul. “And in the last years, thank God, we have extremely good relations."

US Muslims pursue programs to counter extremist recruiting; a church is moved over 2,000 miles; Jewish faith and social justice.

Depopulation in rural Canada means “we end up having buildings for which we have no future use,” says Rev. Ken Vaughan, rector of a local Anglican parish in Nova Scotia. “The primary concern was that it continue to be a church for others. Better that than simply being torn down and ...

For the young Jewish professionals he works with in Washington, DC, “social justice is their faith,” says Rabbi Scott Perlo of Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. “If someone needs help from me, I really have to give it, because they are worth, in God’s eyes, just the same as I am.”

“You had people watching synagogues burn. You had people looting businesses that had been plundered. You had people joining in on the violence."

A young woman's choice to end her life raises ethical and moral questions; examining for-profit businesses with nonprofit aspirations; an author and spiritual story-teller is inspired by Native American rituals and traditions.

In the five states where it’s legal, physician-assisted dying involves rigorous regulations, including how long a person has lived there, says Cathy Lynn Grossman, senior national correspondent for Religion News Service. “Brittany Maynard moved from California to Oregon, where it’s legal ...

"My goal is to be present,” says this writer and spiritual teacher, to the “emotional reality” of Native Americans and “put it in the voices and characters of real people. My job is to present a truth that you will embrace more fully if you believe it as you read it."

A delegation of top Yazidi spiritual leaders is seeking help for their ancient religious minority in Iraq, which has been particularly targeted by ISIS. “We became victims of one of the largest…atrocities of the modern world,” says Yazidi human rights advocate Murad Ismael.

Faith groups help undocumented minors through the immigration courts; China looks to religion to revive environmental values; a church destroyed at Ground Zero prepares to rebuild.

"The question for our government" says Lenni Benson, executive director and founder of the nonprofit Safe Passage Project, "will be, even if they have deportation orders, is it ethical and legal to remove a child to a country of origin if we aren’t assured that child will be safe upon return?"

“Who will protect the environment? In the West and in China, it’s the government's responsibility," says Tashi Sange, a Tibetan Buddhist monk and conservationist. "This is not the Buddhist way. If you think that way you are not Buddhist. You are the protector. You have the responsibility."

The new St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, set to be rebuilt at the World Trade Center, will be a national shrine and will include a nondenominational bereavement center. "Next to the place where the most tragic thing that has ever happened on American soil," says Father Evagoras Constantinides of ...

Ethical considerations and a threatening epidemic; churches ministering to and thinking theologically about transgender individuals; a Lutheran minister who feeds the hungry from a food truck church.

“We should be thinking about how we can more vigorously and effectively help the people of West Africa and how we can protect health care workers in the United States. We can afford to do both quite well,” says bioethicist George Annas.

“I love the Lutheran tradition, the Lutheran theology, the message of grace,” says Rev. Margaret Kelly, a Lutheran pastor in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her food-truck church offers meals, prayer services, and a feeling of community to the hungry and homeless.

Religious leaders support transitional housing for the homeless; a violinist finds the divine order in the world through music; and the meaning and practices behind a Jewish harvest festival.

“If we don’t in some concrete way help people to have a decent life here on earth, we are not fulfilling the gospel. It’s that simple,” say Pastor Dan Bryant, senior minister of the First Christian Church Disciples of Christ in Eugene, Oregon, and president of the board of Opportunity ...