Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the season of Lent for many Christians, and the imposition of ashes can serve as a reminder of human frailty, a public sign of religious faith, and an expression of pastoral care.

“We’re looking at long-term changes to make something sustainable here,” says World Vision’s Mary Kate MacIssac. Watch more interviews about the recovery effort and more video of three different church services on a recent Sunday morning in Port-au-Prince.

"Haiti is not dying," says Free Methodist pastor Jean-Marc Zamor one year after the massive earthquake, and faith-based humanitarian aid workers are pressing ahead with relief and reconstruction despite criticism that efforts have fallen short.

Look back at excerpts from our conversations with reporters over the past 10 years on religion and its changing role in the world.

Religion and politics, interfaith relations, humanitarian disasters, war and peace. Watch the members of our annual reporters roundtable assess the most important religion and ethics news of the past year.

Benyamin Cohen wrote a book about his year-long exploration of Christianity and used what he learned to reflect on the meaning of his own Jewish faith.

"I'm doing the best I can to live out my faith as I understand it," says Episcopal priest and Vanderbilt University chaplain Becca Stevens. "Love is the most powerful force for social change."

"As chaplains we absorb people’s sadness, their brokenness, their depth of spiritual despair," says Dennis Gibbs, an Episcopal chaplain at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles. "In many ways we hold for these inmates what they cannot hold for themselves."

"There are moments when we must challenge the laws of society," says Bishop Minerva Carcano of the United Methodist Church's Desert Southwest Conference.

Benyamin Cohen wrote a book about his year-long exploration of Christianity, and he used what he learned to reflect on the meaning of his own Jewish faith.