Bruce Lasky, founder of Bridges Across Borders Southeast Asia, is setting up legal clinics and instilling in Asian law students the moral obligation to help the poor.

As it celebrates its 100th anniversary, one of the main branches of Judaism faces challenges as membership declines and leaders look for ways to expand outreach, especially to younger Jews.

Ethical challenges raised by long-term isolation of inmates; Catholic writer James Lee Burke on moral and biblical themes and influences in his best-selling crime novels; and a mock pilgrimage that teaches Muslim American children about the rituals of the hajj.

“A Franciscan told me once, ‘Don’t keep track of the score. The score will take care of itself.’” Writer James Lee Burke’s best-selling crime novels are full of biblical imagery, messianic language, the influences of his Roman Catholic boyhood, and a longing for redemption.

A Georgetown University panel discussion examining the influence of Pope Francis; a Supreme Court case over prayers at public government meetings; and the challenges hindering efforts to eradicate polio in Pakistan.

Watch excerpts from a panel discussion at Georgetown University examining the influence of Pope Francis' leadership on American public life six months after his election.

"For the protection of government as well as for the protection of religion, they need to be separate. I think when government gets involved in religion, it corrupts religion, and I think when religion gets involved with government, it can corrupt government," says plaintiff Susan Galloway.

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.

Increasing violence against Christians in predominantly Muslim Pakistan; and the sharp divisions among people of faith over the Affordable Care Act’s various mandates and provisions

In this predominantly Muslim nation, religious extremism and resentment of the West both contribute to violence against Pakistani Christians. "We feel most of the time we are not equal. Not only not equal, but the growing feeling is that we are not even wanted," says the Catholic archbishop of ...

"As a person of faith, if I am to turn my back on people who have needs, medical needs, physical needs, I have turned my back on my faith," says Rev. Art Cribbs, executive director of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice. But Biola University religion and ethics professor Scott Rae believes ...

More than 2,200 candle-lit paper lanterns with individually written messages of peace were set afloat onto a large reflecting pool in New York City in honor of people who have dedicated their lives to the cause of peace.

“The Arab world will always be a religious place,” says film director Haifaa Al-Mansour, but “it’s important not to see ourselves as us against the world. It’s more of us with the world.”

Divisions in the United Methodist Church over same-sex marriage; the artistic and religious treasure that is represented by the oldest surviving English version of the New Testament Gospels; and artist Marc Chagall, whose many paintings of a crucified Jesus symbolize Jewish suffering and ...

The oldest surviving English version of the New Testament Gospels withstood Viking raids and the Dark Ages to be exhibited this summer at Durham Cathedral.

This modern artist’s body of work was based on the Hebrew Bible and the Jewish Jesus, often depicted with tallit and phylacteries.

We caught up last month at the 9:30 Club in Washington with Robert Randolph and the Family Band and their “House of God sound.”

Moral considerations as the Syria crisis continues to unfold; 50th anniversary of a bombing that killed four African-American girls in a Birmingham, Alabama church; and visiting the graves of one's ancestors during the Jewish High Holy Days.

"It is only the threat of force that has brought the Syrians to this point, a point that they’ve resisted for decades," says Brookings Institution senior fellow William Galston. "So it is unrealistic to forswear the use of force unless and until an agreement can be reached."

"If four little girls dressed in white for Sunday school can be blown to pieces because of hatred, everyone has to stop and think, where are we going as a society?"