Pope Francis visited sacred sites recognized by Muslims, Christians, and Jews, including the Western Wall. He met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and a range of other religious leaders, made unexpected stops at a terror memorial and at the separation wall that surrounds the West Bank city of ...

Programs to vaccinate children here have been hampered by a suspicions about the purpose of the vaccinations, violence from extremists, and critics who say Pakistan has more pressing problems to deal with.

The number of people in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is going up steadily as a result of the lower age limits for both men and women who want to serve as missionaries.

The pope travels to the Holy Land; a new state law to restore religious freedom also creates concern about religious discrimination .

The pope's pilgrimage is intended on one level to commemorate the 1964 meeting between Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras that ended a thousand years of estrangement between Eastern and Western Christianity. But there are other agendas as well: interfaith dialogue, the Middle East peace process, ...

“It’s not that religious leaders are in a position to take political initiatives. But they represent the identities of the people, and to ignore the possibilities of interreligious support is rather short-sighted.”

"Focus on the idea that everybody's narrative and every human being is worth so much in the eyes of God. Regardless of your state, or regardless of your faith, you have essence of dignity as a human being."

The Holy Land meeting of Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew should “reaffirm our commitment to the dialogue of love, to the dialogue of truth, and to a sense of unity moving toward a sense of communion.”

"Pope John Paul II played a very important role in ending the Soviet era in Poland. I would like to see this pope saying, 'The Holy Land did not experience peace for the last 3,000 years. Isn't it overdue?'"

Baptist pastor and Mississippi state senator Phillip Gandy sponsored a law he says will restore and protect people's freedom to practice religion. Others interpret it as a means to legalize discrimination. “It’s aiming at keeping government in its place,” Gandy explains. But National Council ...

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(Photo: AP) "When I first saw him, I was so traumatized I had to be taken to the hospital for 10 days," says Alice Mukarurinda, recalling her first encounter with Emmanuel Ndayisaba at a reconciliation group. He nearly killed her during the genocide. "I managed to forgive him. I believe it was God's ...

The rate of HIV infections in America is rising for young gay men. Groups like the Chicago-based Night Ministry are meeting them where they are, offering free testing right out of a van on the street. "Churches have been powerful communities of support for people living with HIV," says Matt Richards ...

"Yoga’s techniques and goals move in and through and outside of religion in very interesting and complex ways," says Debra Diamond, associate curator of south and southeastern Asian art for the Smithsonian Institution's Freer and Sackler galleries. Following its Washington debut, “Yoga: The Art ...

Death Penalty; Women, Religion, Violence and Power; Jordan River Baptism Site

"The country’s long been divided over whether to have it. But that only led to even more difficult questions. How do you do it? How do you implement it? And can you do it fairly and rationally?"

Of all the social issues facing our world, President Jimmy Carter says the abuse of women and girls is the greatest injustice of all, and that the pretext is often religion.

“Whenever women are treated as inferior in the eyes of God, this is a misinterpretation of what Jesus Christ taught." Watch more of our conversation with President Carter on women's rights around the world.

Seminary graduates struggle to find work as full-time Protestant ministers; a spiritual skeptic and a rabbi explore how to prepare for death.