Listen to singer-songwriter Carrie Newcomer read from her book “A Permeable Life.”

Extremist rebels have expelled virtually the entire Christian community in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city. “It’s mass cleansing based on religion,” says the Syriac Catholic leader of the region, Patriarch Ignatius Youssef III Younan.

Watch a conversation between program anchor Bob Abernethy and managing editor Kim Lawton on the response of religious groups to the child migrant crisis and the many challenges it presents.

With millions of people in India suffering from mental illnesses and only five thousand psychiatrists to treat them, many seek out faith healers to fill in the gap.

With thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children crossing the U.S./Mexico border, Americans are being challenged with how to respond.

"The greatest passport I have personally to work across the world is what I’ve lost," says Father Michael Lapsley, who lost both hands in an assassination attempt. "When people see me, they know I’ve suffered loss, and even though their loss may be very different, they’re still able to identify."

"What needed to happen was an engineering company that was willing to work with hospitals, with doctors and nurses to identify what they needed, says Allison Zimmerman of the East Meets West Foundation, "as opposed to developing a solution outside."

"The Martyrdom of the Báb commemorates the day when the Báb was finally taken before a firing squad in the northern Persian city of Tabriz," says Hillary Chapman, a Baha'i educator. It's "not a celebration, but a commemoration. But the use of the arts is very much encouraged as a way of kind of portraying the inner meaning of that day."

"The court will have to sort of decide where one person’s freedom ends and another person’s begins on something like this. But it does point to this larger question that we have," observes Kevin Eckstrom, editor-in-chief of Religion News Service, "should religious groups or religious people or institutions be treated differently under the law than everybody else."

Phil Jones was told that he had an incurable bone marrow cancer, and that he was too old for the procedure that might save his life. The Moffitt Cancer Center of Florida disagreed, and a perfect donor match appeared in a naval officer who was also an ordained minister. Jones says he "felt God’s hand in the whole thing. I never doubted for a moment that I would make it."

"We encourage people to have conversations," says Reverend Rosa Lee Harden, producer of the Wild Goose Festival. She finds that sometimes people "who weren’t raised in Christian families, who follow other faiths more deeply understand the message of Jesus than sometimes we do."

"When people are thinking about honesty versus dishonesty," says Dan Ariely, professor at the Duke University Fuqua School of Business, "it’s all about being able, at the moment, to rationalize something and make yourself think this is actually okay."

A decision from the Supreme Court on the Hobby Lobby case is expected on Monday, June 30. The case challenges the reach of both the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Affordable Care Act. Can the Christian owners of a for-profit corporation claim religious exemption from providing contraceptive insurance coverage to their employees?

Vietnamese women from rural villages are regularly targeted for labor and sex trafficking. They are often lured with opportunities for work in China, and then sold as wives, prostitutes or forced labor. "We were told that if we didn’t agree to be wives, we would be sold into brothels," says Hue, a victim who managed to escape.

"It's almost like a version of 'This Old House' where you look at a house that's been in a state of deterioration and we need a lot of people and a lot of resources to come and try to help and get this house of worship back on its feet again," says Rev. Wilbur Winborne, pastor of 19th Street Baptist Church in South Philadelphia, built in 1874.

“You may come home feeling good, you did your duty, you helped people, you helped keep your unit alive. Then at some point you may start to think,” observes Rita Nakashima Brock of the Soul Repair Center at Brite Divinty School, “who am I that I could do those things? That’s when moral injury kicks in.”

Leaders of the largest Buddhist temple in the world want it "to be like Mecca is in Islam, a global center," says Rachelle Scott, an expert on the group and assistant director of religious studies at the University of Tennessee. "Critics question the intentions of the temple. They think that the primary intention is to make money."