The UN has demanded a cease-fire and authorized military action. What moral considerations should underlie international intervention?

Why are vulnerable borrowers being harmed rather than helped by microcredit companies? Misgivings are spreading about what was once seen as a powerful weapon in the battle against poverty.

What did people of faith think about President Obama’s State of the Union address? Watch our panel of religion analysts assess the speech.

"The most broadly based access to the developing world is through religious people," says the former president of the World Bank, "and so it is a tragedy if they are not embraced in the overall development process."

Watch Notre Dame peace studies and political science professor George Lopez, also a fellow at the US Institute of Peace, comment on the consequences of the Supreme Court's decision to uphold a law that makes it a crime to provide “material support” to terrorist organizations.

"The concern I have with a lot of families is that when they adopt they may not always see it as a permanency nowadays, because there’s a lot of availability to disrupt adoptions," says Dr. Ronald Federici, a neuropsychologist.

As national elections approach in the fragile African country of Sudan, one church's commitment to its education, agriculture, water, and micro-enterprise projects there remains steadfast.

Watch more of correspondent Kim Lawton's interviews with the pastor of Ginghamsburg Church, who says faith communities must remind the world "that there are moral mandates we have as human beings toward the treatment of other human beings."

Former diplomat Thomas Farr is concerned the Obama administration has yet to fill this important position.

Matthew McGarry, Catholic Relief Services representative in Afghanistan, says "people's faith is central to every aspect of their daily life in Afghanistan, and not taking that into account can undermine every other positive thing that the Administration might want to do."