Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton discusses the appointees to President Barack Obama’s new advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

Leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion have called on Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, to step down. Watch what Rev. Thomas Shaw, Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts, had to say after his trip to Zimbabwe last year.

Watch Peggy Bulger, director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, describe the response so far to the Inauguration 2009 Sermons and Orations Project.

On January 31, former Maryland lieutenant governor Michael Steele, a Roman Catholic, was elected the first African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee. Watch him talk about his faith and values.

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton discusses the selection of Joshua DuBois to head the White House Council of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, reaction to his selection, and challenges the council will face.

President Barack Obama has selected Joshua DuBois to head the White House Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Watch DuBois talk about Obama's faith outreach from interviews during the campaign season.

What do religious leaders most hope for in the first 100 days of the Obama administration?

Family Research Council president Tony Perkins says while religious conservatives are pleased by President Barack Obama’s faith-based rhetoric and outreach, they have concerns about how his administration will deal with some of their core issues

Martin Luther King Jr. associate Vincent Harding, a professor emeritus at the Iliff School of Theology, draws connections between President Barack Obama’s election and the civil rights movement.

Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America, says many US Muslims are optimistic that President Barack Obama’s administration will lead to a new climate of religious openness.