Sep 10 Watch Treating mental illness with medicine and religion in India By PBS News Hour In India, about 100 million people are believed to suffer common mental disorders and millions more have more severe illnesses. With just 5,000 psychiatrists in the country, faith healers have filled the gap. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports… Continue watching
Jun 08 Pope Francis holds Middle East peace prayer summit By Kayla Ruble Pope Francis hosted the presidents of Israel and Palestine to the Vatican for a prayer summit on Sunday evening in a move meant to inspire a renewed interests in peace talks from both sides. Continue reading
May 05 Watch Supreme Court upholds right to pray at town meetings By PBS News Hour In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that local governments have the right to open town meetings with prayer — even if the prayer is explicitly of one denomination. Gwen Ifill gets an overview of the case from… Continue watching
Apr 13 Watch Papyrus referencing Jesus' wife dates back to ancient times By News Desk Experts at Columbia, MIT and Harvard have concluded through scientific testing that a small papyrus fragment that quotes Jesus making references to “my wife,” is in fact from ancient times. What do these new findings reveal? Hari Sreenivasan speaks with… Continue watching
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Nov 06 Watch Supreme Court tackles the separation of church and state in public prayer case Supreme Court tackles the separation of church and state in public prayer case… Continue watching
Sep 24 Watch Reza Aslan's 'Zealot' Aims to Better Understand Jesus by Understanding His World In his new book, "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth," author and scholar Reza Aslan sets out to dig through generations of interpretation to get to know Jesus, the real, historical figure and the world he lived… Continue watching
Apr 19 Watch Vatican Rebuke: Are U.S. Nuns Promoting 'Radical Feminist Themes?' Vatican Rebuke: Are U.S. Nuns Promoting 'Radical Feminist Themes?'… Continue watching
Dec 20 Watch Film Tells Story of Warlord-Turned-Evangelist Known as General Butt Naked The film "The Redemption of General Butt Naked" follows a brutal African warlord who has renounced his violent past and reinvented himself as a Christian evangelist. This excerpt is part of The Economist Film Project series of independently produced films… Continue watching