At a critical moment for health care reform, Townsend says it is essential for religious progressives to speak up.

With the murders at Fort Hood, New York’s Muslim community, however unjustly, was on the defensive. The author explains how Muslim women are reacting.

I’m angry about the latest efforts of the Bush Administration to limit women's reproductive rights. This new proposal doesn’t just limit a woman’s choice to have an abortion based on medical profess...

Roman Catholic supporters of Barack Obama undergo intimidation by church leaders because of their candidate’s pro-choice views. Father Roy Bourgeois faces excommunication for co-presiding over the ordination of a woman as priest. Author Angela Bonavoglia connects the dots within a deeply misogynistic tendency of the church hierarchy that members are resisting—from the pews and from the pulpit.

For Pinar Ilkkaracan, coming to New York from Istanbul to receive a prestigious human rights award last month was a welcome respite. “You are constantly struggling,” she said of her efforts on behal...

The largest ever demonstration for the rights of women in the United States took place the spring of 2004 when slightly over a million people marched in Washington, D.C. This spring women’s rights s...

At a time when some see a growing divide between religious values and contemporary culture, a group of African American church leaders are meeting this week in Washington, D.C., to narrow the gap. W...