A visit to the Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees; a writer and rabbi collaborate on a book about facing the mystery of mortality.

"Behind each of these wonderful people is a life that is completely disrupted. We see God in all of these people. We see that these are brothers and sisters like us," says Catholic Relief Services president Carolyn Woo.

Best-selling writer and journalist Sara Davidson felt completely unprepared for the reality of dying. Then she met Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, founder of the Jewish Renewal movement. Their weekly conversations about mortality led to their book "The December Project." "When you feel you’re ...

"Africa is finding, just as it found its political and economic voice it's also finding its theological voice, which oftentimes may be different in perspective," says J. Peter Pham of the Atlantic Council's Africa Center, "because of background, because of history, and because of the way they have ...

Patients seek the right to try experimental drug treatments; a woman becomes a humanitarian after surviving torture in Somalia.

"I’ve seen it more than once where it’s the family members simply can’t let go or decide we can leave no stone unturned," says Richard Klein of the FDA patient liaison program, "whether or not it’s what the patient really wants." But do families and patients have a right to try unapproved ...

"Of course I was angry for everything that was happening to me, but as time went on in captivity, I just realized for my own self, for self-preservation, that I couldn’t stay trapped in that emotion, that I had to try to find ways to let it out, and that’s when I started developing practices ...

“It’s not like your typical disaster, where churches… clean up after a hurricane or a tornado,” says Kevin Eckstrom, editor-in-chief of Religion News Service. “This is much more complicated.”

Her music often emphasize the sacred in the ordinary, and it is rooted in her Quaker faith. “Some of my best language has come out of the silence” of Quaker meetings, she says, “when I’ve taken the time to listen to something beyond myself."

Listen to singer-songwriter Carrie Newcomer read from her book “A Permeable Life.”

Extremist rebels have expelled virtually the entire Christian community in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city. “It’s mass cleansing based on religion,” says the Syriac Catholic leader of the region, Patriarch Ignatius Youssef III Younan.

As thousands of unaccompanied migrant children cross the US-Mexico border, Americans are being challenged by how to respond. "This is what our Catholic faith calls us to do," says John Andrews of the Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino County. But in Murrieta, California, Andrea Rockwood has a ...

"The Catholic bishops had a really strong statement saying don't send the kids back; that would be morally wrong to send them back to dangerous situations. Others in the religious community are saying it's a matter of law and order."

With millions of people in India suffering from mental illnesses and only five thousand psychiatrists to treat them, many seek out faith healers to fill in the gap. "Access to care is not there, lack of professionals, lack of medication, lack of awareness, lack of knowledge, so all this leads to ...

A disabled minister helps others find healing; native technology saves vulnerable infants; Buddhists create lanterns to honor those who promote peace.

"The greatest passport I have personally to work across the world is what I’ve lost," says Father Michael Lapsley, who lost both hands in an assassination attempt. "When people see me, they know I’ve suffered loss, and even though their loss may be very different, they’re still able to ...

"What needed to happen was an engineering company that was willing to work with hospitals, with doctors and nurses to identify what they needed, says Allison Zimmerman of the East Meets West Foundation, "as opposed to developing a solution outside."