“By nursing our admiration for our military’s virtues, President Obama suggests, we can transform our beleaguered democracy into a more cohesive and mission-focused political community.”

"This economic wound will not heal without profound disagreement—that is the nature of democracy—but Obama hopes that we might bind it charitably and without malice."

“Obama is back on message. Echoing Franklin Roosevelt, he preached economic liberty to the poor and justice to the oppressed without pandering to religious prejudices.”

His speech on religion was one of the defining moments of the 2008 presidential campaign. Revisit analysis of what Republican president candidate Mitt Romney had to say about his Mormon faith and religion in America.

As the South Carolina Republican primary approaches and candidate Rick Santorum claims a belated victory in the Iowa caucuses, watch excerpts from a 2010 speech Santorum, a Catholic, delivered on the role of religious faith in public life.

Evangelicals are a key Republican constituency, especially in the primary season, and they still appear to be up for grabs.

Watch excerpts of three leading Republican presidential candidates talking about religion.

"There are a lot of people in this country who are into dialogue, education, getting to know one another, trying to live together," says Rabbi Ron Kronish, director of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Jerusalem.

Religious leaders of this largely Christian country will have a key role to play in successfully managing its wealth and in fostering its adherence to democratic values.

“We’ve been Muslims for 1400 years,” says Abdul Sattar Edhi, a one-man charity who runs a Karachi ambulance service and whose wife oversees shelters and orphanages for women and children. “Why don’t we become human beings? God doesn’t just love Muslims. He loves human beings.”