Same-sex unions, as well as the consecration of gay bishops, are among the most contentious issues facing the worldwide Anglican Communion at the Lambeth Conference in England this week.

In Malawi, one out of every four children dies before reaching the age of five. Famine is chronic, and AIDS has left tens of thousands of orphans, often in the care of struggling grandparents.

Six-hundred-and-fifty bishops of the worldwide Anglican Communion assembled in Canterbury, England this week for the Lambeth Conference, a three-week-long meeting that's held just once every decade.

Religion has played an unusually prominent -- and controversial -- role throughout this campaign season, raising the question: What are the appropriate boundaries between religion and politics?

They teach nonviolence, but their demonstrations against the Chinese have sometimes become violent.

"People never thought they would stay so long, for 60 years," says Olfat Mahmoud, director of the Women's Humanitarian Organization. There are some four and a half million Palestinian refugees. Many live in the West Bank and Gaza, while others took refuge in Arab states such as Lebanon.

Right now, 36 states permit capital punishment for murder. Should that penalty be extended to those who rape children?

Between tragedies such as the one in Myanmar and the disastrous worldwide rise in food prices, a question long debated by relief experts has become urgent: What's the best way for the U.S. to help the hungry?

Senator Barack Obama this week denounced several recent controversial statements by his former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

Heschel is widely considered to be one of the greatest American religious figures of the last century - a rabbi, theologian, social activist and mystic admired by Christians as well as Jews.