Watch more of our interview about the meaning of Shavuot with the director of community engagement at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, DC.

We talk with Cheri Harder, president of the Trinity Forum and a former congressional policy advisor and White House staffer, as Republican presidential campaigns get under way.

Watch more of our conversation with president of the Trinity Forum and a former congressional policy advisor and White House staffer Cherie Harder about religion and politics in 2012.

The Jewish holiday of Shavuot, says Rabbi Shira Stutman, it is a time of "rejoicing in the harvest, rejoicing in this gift of Torah that God has given us, and rejoicing in the ability to learn from Torah in each and every generation."

As debate grows over US involvement in NATO's intervention in the Libyan civil war, watch an excerpt about Libya from our May 23 interview with the force commander of the UN Assistance Mission to Rwanda in 1993-1994 and the author of "Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda."

This week Congress authorized a new memorial at Arlington National Cemetery to honor 13 fallen Jewish military chaplains.

Children's Hospice Doctor; Voodoo in New Orleans

Voodoo recognizes an invisible world of great spiritual power, according to Sallie Ann Glassman, a Voodoo priestess, community organizer, and founder of the New Orleans Healing Center.

Working with the Circle of Life Children's Center, a pediatrician affiliated with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey offers compassionate care to seriously ill children and their families.

"We were building million-dollar vacation town homes, and we were displacing people," says Nancy Murray, founder and CEO of Builders of Hope, and then "I started getting a conscience."

Watch more of correspondent Judy Valente's interview on the new Roman Missal with Rev. Edward Foley, professor of liturgy and music at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.

A new study by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice rules out celibacy and homosexuality as causes of the Catholic sexual abuse crisis.

Father Larry Janowski says the new, more literal translation of the words of the Mass from the original Latin are "like sawdust in the mouth. They're difficult to say."

Watch excerpts from President Obama's May 12 speech at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast, along with comments by Rev. Luis Cortes Jr., president of Esperanza, a national faith-based network of Hispanic churches and ministries, and Bishop Orlando Findlayter, chairman of Churches United to Save and Heal, a coalition of churches in Brooklyn.

Christians, Jews, and Muslims all have a sacred connection to the ancient city of Jerusalem, says author James Carroll, and "that sacred connection, even though at the present moment it's a source of contention, is actually a profound source of union."

Violence in Jerusalem is no surprise, says author James Carroll, "because that's the human story. The great thing about Jerusalem is it's a place where the human story gets transcended."

Millions of women in the developing world suffer from obstetric fistulas and are outcasts in their societies, but a medical missionary from Australia has spent much of her life working to eradicate the condition.

"You enter into the soul, the spirit of somebody else by listening to them, not by telling them something," according to this retired Presbyterian minister who says he misses the intimacy that comes with pastoral ministry.

A hospital in Ethiopia that treats women with fistulas; A profile of Eugene Peterson, a retired minister and author of "The Pastor"; James Carroll on Jerusalem

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich formally announced he is seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President. Watch excerpts from his April 27 speech at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington where he talked about the religious influence of his wife, Callista, his 2009 conversion to Catholicism and his concerns about what he sees as rising secularism in American culture.