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Religion and Faith

Pope supports crackdown on US nuns

Pope supports crackdown on US nuns

The Vatican said Monday that Pope Francis supports the Holy See's crackdown on the largest umbrella group of U.S. nuns, dimming hopes that a Jesuit pope whose emphasis on the poor mirrored the nuns' own social outreach would take a different approach than his predecessor.

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Holocaust Remembrance Day: Liberator Leonard Parker and survivors Lucy Smith and Sabina Zimering

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Liberator Leonard Parker and survivors Lucy Smith and Sabina Zimering

Yom Hoshoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day 2013. Hear an emotional letter from 22-year-old US Army Sgt. Leonard Parker at the liberation of the Dachau concentration and death camp, and MPR interviews with Holocaust survivors Lucy Smith and Sabina Zimering, who live in Minnesota. Both girls hid from the Nazis.

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Pope's first Easter Mass sends messages of peace

Pope Francis celebrated his first Easter Sunday Mass praying for world peace and urging a diplomatic solution to the standoff on the Korean peninsula. Only two weeks after his election, the first pope from the developing world continues to make his mark on the Catholic Church.

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Pope's first Easter Mass sends messages of peace

Pope Francis celebrated his first Easter Sunday Mass praying for world peace and urging a diplomatic solution to the standoff on the Korean peninsula. Only two weeks after his election, the first pope from the developing world continues to make his mark on the Catholic Church.

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Shroud of Turin goes on display amid new research

Shroud of Turin goes on display amid new research

The Shroud of Turin went on display for a special TV appearance Saturday amid new research disputing claims it's a medieval fake and purporting to date the linen some say was Jesus' burial cloth to around the time of his death.

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America Abroad: Religious minorities in the Middle East

America Abroad: Religious minorities in the Middle East

The Middle East is largely Muslim but it's also the birthplace of Christianity, Judaism and many other religions. This edition of America Abroad is a discussion about Christian communities in Egypt, Jews in Tunisia, Alawi's in Syria and the declining religious diversity in the Middle East.

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Karen Armstrong speaks on the world's religions and our global responsibilities

Karen Armstrong speaks on the world's religions and our global responsibilities

Acclaimed British comparative religion writer Karen Armstrong gives a 2012 Chautauqua Lecture about the long and sometimes violent path to modernization and democracy. She says the "Golden Rule" is embedded in all of the world's major faiths, and we all must feel responsibility for the pain of other human beings throughout the world.

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