Managing editor and correspondent Kim Lawton highlights the findings about young evangelicals in the Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly/UN Foundation survey on religion and America's role in the world.

Timothy Wirth, president of the UN Foundation, describes the foundation's participation in the survey on religion and America's role in the world and its interest in the views of faith communities.

John Hamre, president and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, remarks on the importance of the religious impulse in foreign policy and government's "intellectual blinders" when it comes to understanding religion's role.

Timothy Shah, adjunct senior fellow for religion and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, comments on the Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly survey findings about evangelicals and non-evangelicals and on America's historical sense of covenant, calling, and self-criticism about its conduct in the world.

Anna Greenberg, senior vice-president at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, describes the results of her new survey about religion and America's role in the world and analyzes the potential political implications of the findings.

In an interview, Timothy Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation, describes the role he sees religious groups playing on the world stage, especially on humanitarian issues and climate change.

During an event at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, Matthew Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, predicted that unprecedented numbers of Jews will be voting Republican this election.

Kansas Senator Sam Brownback is heading the national Catholics for McCain committee. During a Catholic luncheon at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, Brownback urged Catholics to get out the vote for the McCain-Palin ticket.

Georgetown University Professor of Government Clyde Wilcox says Catholics are highly divided swing voters whose decisions in this election could be crucial to the outcome.

Winning the Catholic vote could be the key to victory in the swing state of Pennsylvania where Jewish voters are also being courted. The contest in working-class areas of the state like Scranton is particularly intense.

Camp Ray of Hope is like no other. People grieving the death of a spouse, a child, or a friend, attend in order to learn how to accept that death and go on. It is filled with laughter, beauty, and pain.

All four candidates describe themselves as Christians, but they talk about their faith — and apply it to their politics — in very different ways.

Should religious beliefs, or anything else, be off limits — a candidate’s family, personal life, pastor?

Sister Simone Campbell, national coordinator for NETWORK, a Catholic social justice lobby group, speaks about the moral dimensions of the economic crisis and the role it might play in voters' decisions.

Rev. Adam Hamilton, pastor of Church of the Resurrection United Methodist Church in Leawood, Kansas, discusses the moral dimensions of the global economic crisis and what political candidates and religious leaders should be saying about it.

On September 28, more than 30 pastors around the country defied the Internal Revenue Service rule that clergy may not engage in partisan politicking from their pulpits.

Rev. C. Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance, says there are dangerous consequences for religion when houses of worship get too political.

Meat is kosher if it has been prepared according to Jewish law and certified so by a rabbi. But what if the plant managers were accused of unfair labor practices?

RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY has released a new survey showing that younger evangelicals are less supportive of John McCain than their parents are.

Sister Simone Campbell is national coordinator for NETWORK, a Catholic social justice lobby group. She has worked with Senator Joe Biden for several years and describes how she has seen him live out his Catholic faith.