Individual liberty versus the common good and the ongoing need for comprehensive immigration reform are among the issues religious groups continued to debate as the High Court’s term came to a close.

A nonprofit agency in Greater Cincinnati tries to guide young people in their decision-making about sexuality, dating, drugs, social media, and more.

“What you are seeing is not quite a civil war, but kind of a civil skirmish within the US church about what it means to be Catholic.”

Catholic groups, including Cardinal Timothy Dolan's archdiocese of New York, filed lawsuits in federal courts on May 21 to stop the Obama administration from implementing a mandate that would require them to cover contraceptives in their health plans.

"America has an agenda for homosexuals in Uganda," according to Pastor Joseph Serwadda, and accepting gay rights as human rights and human rights as gay rights "is going to be very tough on Africa."

“If we can bring in some light, the darkness will not overcome the light, and that’s where faith is. We believe that,” says Lyn Lusi, who has spent her professional life in medical care for the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Watch Kevin Eckstrom, editor of Religion News Service, and Kim Lawton, managing editor of Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, compare what happened at Penn State and the long-running sex abuse scandal in the Catholic church.

Since Congress repealed Don’t Ask Don’t Tell last December, more than one million US troops have taken instruction in the new policy. But some military chaplains are raising concerns.

A new study by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice rules out celibacy and homosexuality as causes of the Catholic sexual abuse crisis.

There is debate and discussion going on within religious communities about rhetoric, teachings, tolerance and anti-gay sentiments in society.