In Jordan, next door to Iraq, humanitarian aid workers have relief supplies but only limited access to Iraq. There are daily demonstrations in Amman against the war in Iraq and the American government. Opposition to the war is overwhelming among both Muslims and Christians.

A WASHINGTON POST-ABC NEWS poll asked American whites and blacks whether they support or oppose the U.S. having gone to war in Iraq. Among whites, 78 percent said they support the war. But among African-Americans, just 35 percent supported. Of all African-Americans, the most conflicted may be African-American Muslims, who make up about a third of all Muslims in the U.S.

At St. Paul Community Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York, Reverend Johnny Ray Youngblood has developed a powerful program of music, dance and theater. The pageant is called the "Ma'afa Suite", and the objective of the show is to help African-Americans heal slavery's hidden wounds.

Michael Walzer, UPS Foundation Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, has written many books on war, political theory, and liberal thought. Watch excerpts from our interview with him about Afghanistan, exiting Iraq, the moral lessons of war, and religious commentary on US foreign policy.

Jewish leaders fear that war in Iraq will mean more attacks against France's 700,000 Jews.

Islamic scholars in Cairo said an attack on Iraq would be an attack on all Islam, and that every Muslim would have the obligation to defend the faith. Diane Knippers, Jack Moline, and Akbar Ahmed join R&E to discuss the implications of that call -- and of the war -- for Muslims, Christians, and Jews.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urged the U.S. and its allies not to forsake humanitarian issues while waging the war in Iraq. For months, nongovernmental relief agencies have been trying to get ready for a potential humanitarian crisis. Among the active groups are many faith-based organizations that have a long history of providing aid to the region.

A Florida program called “Hospice of the Sun Coast” pairs high school volunteers with hospice patients, and in the process the teens say they “walk away with a lesson in life.”

Archbishop Rowan Williams took over in December 2002 as head of the more than 70 million-member worldwide Anglican Communion. In the U.S., that means the Episcopal Church. Williams has already made headlines by opposing the British government’s stance on Iraq and for his personal support of homosexual unions.

John Kiely, Brother Amos, is a novice at Mepkin Abbey. He is 39 years old and has made a commitment to spend the rest of his life at the monastery. That means he will rarely leave, have only one visit a year from his family, and forego other freedoms.

As the crisis over Iraq intensified, the Vatican ratcheted up its diplomatic efforts to avert war. Pope John Paul II scheduled several high-level meetings, with officials including United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

We spoke with Seyyed Hossein Nasr, University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University in Washington. Dr. Nasr is a Muslim, a native of Iran, where he taught at and became vice chancellor of Tehran University. He has been a U.S. citizen for 20 years, and is the author of many books. On Iraq, Nasr thinks the Muslim reaction will depend on the kind of war that is fought.

Chris Hedges of The New York Times has written a powerful new book about the costs of war to individuals and to societies. Hedges, a veteran war correspondent who covered wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Africa, the Middle East, and the former Yugoslavia, wants Americans to understand how self-destructive war can be.

Thirty-five years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis is showcasing an exhibition developed by the Smithsonian Institution. It's called "In the Spirit of Martin." The exhibit and a companion book pull together more than 130 works of art, a collection as varied as the sometimes controversial man the project seeks to honor.

The debate about the death penalty has been revived by the actions of Illinois' outgoing Republican governor George Ryan, who pardoned four death row inmates and commuted the death sentences of all 167 others. Ryan called the capital punishment system "immoral." Watch our discussion with Steve Mills, who has been covering the Illinois story for the Chicago Tribune.

As the U.S. military buildup continues in the Middle East, debate also continues over the morality of going to war. William Galston, a professor at the School of Public Affairs and the Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at University of Maryland, and George Weigel, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, share their opinions on the subject.

Ever since September 11, Americans have been trying to understand Islam. Is there something about the religion itself that drove the terrorists? Or had a small, violent minority that despised the modern West hijacked Islam to justify its politics?

Susan Braunstein, Curator of Archaeology and Judaica at the Jewish Museum of New York, explains the traditions of Hanukkah.

Somali immigrants fleeing civil war first settled in Georgia and Tennessee. But they were alarmed at what they felt was an environment too promiscuous and too violent for their children. So they went on a search for a smaller, safer place to raise their families, and about a thousand ended up in Lewiston, Maine.