Watch more of our conversation on the Catholic Church, sexual abuse, divisions over health care reform, and questions about the church's moral authority.

Passover's ancient themes of freedom, liberation, and transformation are sacred to Jews and shared by everyone, says Rabbi Amy Eilberg.

"The church in Mexico has been hurt by its hesitancy and its silence," says Ruben Garcia, director of Annunciation House in El Paso, Texas.

Watch scenes from a March 21 service at St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church in Washington, DC. It was followed by an interfaith service and march for immigration reform on the National Mall.

Watch some of the religious leaders who were at the March 21 interfaith prayer service for immigration reform on the National Mall.

"As these revelations are coming out in Europe much as they did in the United States," says Vatican expert David Gibson, "you’re going to have great calls for accountability of bishops who covered up for abusers or moved them around to other parishes."

In the world's largest Muslim nation, says Professor Dewi Fortuna Anwar, "there seems to be a greater willingness both to be openly religious and to be modern and educated at the same."

This month legendary jazz drummer Roy Haynes turns 85. Watch him playing in 2004 at a service at Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts.

Corwin Smidt talks about findings from his most recent national survey on religion's role in the 2008 presidential campaign, and he offers some advice for 2012 to both the Democratic and Republican Parties.

Thomas J. Reese, SJ, senior fellow at Georgetown University's Woodstock Theological Center, talks about white and Hispanic Catholic voters and suggests how President Obama's own biography could help him connect with ethnic Catholics.

"I want to just go peacefully. The only medications I want are going to be the ones that would comfort me. That’s all I want," says Jill Steuer, a nurse with advanced-stage breast cancer who has decided to stop any kind of treatment and receive hospice care.

There will always be a purpose to monastic life, say the sisters of Mount St. Scholastica, as long as there is a need in the world for silence, prayer, simplicity, and balance.

President Obama’s advisory panel of prominent religious and community leaders released its final report with more than 60 policy recommendations on issues including poverty, climate change, and interfaith cooperation.

As President Obama’s faith advisory council issues its final report, Joshua DuBois, director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, describes what the administration has learned from religious and community leaders.

Former diplomat Thomas Farr is concerned the Obama administration has yet to fill this important position.

With major earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, relief organizations have their work cut out for them as they help the people of these devastated countries.

Watch more of our conversation with World Vision president Rich Stearns on dual catastrophes in Chile and Haiti, the military's role in humanitarian relief, and the Obama White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

Rami Elhanan and Mazen Faraj are members of the Parents Circle-Families Forum, a grassroots group that unites bereaved Israelis and Palestinians who have lost immediate family members to the Middle East conflict. Together they promote a message of dialogue, reconciliation, and peace.

“Most of our faith traditions believe God gave us the gift of sexuality, so it has deep theological meaning for us. I don’t think we can say sexuality isn’t a religious issue. It deeply is a religious issue.”

"Any conflicts between Muslims and Copts, in the subway or the market, will always end up being taken in the religious context," says Alexandria University professor Rifaat Lakkousha.