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Papal Canonizations Conversation; India's Domestic Workers; Jerusalem the Movie

Buddhists persecute minority Muslims in Myanmar; Father James Martin, SJ explains the importance of the Easter story for Christians.

Technology allows critically ill newborns to survive; a rare Jewish book survives 600 years.

Hollywood releases biblical films; Calvinism garners more interest among evangelicals, including Southern Baptists.

The President and the Pope; Bivocational Pastors; Blind Boys of Alabama; Franciscans at home and abroad care for sacred Christian sites

Religious business owners argue against federal requirement to provide contraceptive coverage; historian Simon Schama tells "The Story of the Jews"; Orthodox Jewish women take more of a leading role in Purim festivities.

Interfaith groups organize against gun violence; Dorothy Day; Sikh children learn to tie their turbans.

Examining the ethics of probing the brain to predict violent behavior; A Journey Through NYC Religions is documenting every religious site in New York's five boroughs.

The real-life Philomena and the Oscar-nominated film based on her life; the debate over the ethics of solitary confinement; and Ash Wednesday on the streets of Washington, DC.

The ethics of cutting retired city worker pensions to pay creditors; the Dalai Lama's ethics of compassion; and congregations seeking forgiveness for racism.

The debate over the morality of Edward Snowden's actions; and the Christian presence in Jordan.

Rev. Thomas Reese on Roman Catholic Church's handling of sex abuse crisis; learning to live with the loss of a loved one; and Hinduism's age-old reverence for cows in modern India.

Sisters of Loretto oppose gas pipeline in Kentucky; an American apparel supplier pays his garment workers fairly

Faith-based groups aid Syrian refugees; a growing number of parents refuse to vaccinate their children against contagious diseases.

Father Michael Doyle and his ministry to the poor in Camden, New Jersey; and economist Antonio Meloto's campaign to fight poverty in his country.