Read an Aug. 26, 2013, Religion News Service story about North Carolina becoming the seventh state to prohibit courts from considering Islamic law. The North Carolina restriction applies only to family-law cases.

Read a Dec. 8, 2012, San Antonio Express-News story about the influence that evangelicals could have on Republican lawmakers’ immigration positions.

Read a Dec. 12, 2012, Salt Lake Tribune article about Colorado’s new immigration compact.

A December 2012 Las Posadas procession in Salt Lake City incorporated the reading of a multifaith statement backing immigration reform. Plans for the event were detailed on The Salt Lake Tribune’s Following Faith blog.

Read a Jan. 1, 2013, post on the website of the Council on Foreign Relations on why immigration reform was expected to happen at the start of President Obama’s second term.

Read a Jan. 2, 2013 Huffington Post story, “Obama’s Immigration Reform Push To Begin This Month.”

Read a Jan. 3, 2013, column at jweekly.com urging Jewish support for “just and compassionate” immigration reform. The author is Eric D. Horodas, outgoing board chair for the Anti-Defamation League’s Central Pacific Region.

Read a Jan. 3, 2013, column in The Jewish Daily Forward that gives a Jewish conservative’s perspective on the debate.

Read a Jan. 3, 2013, Catholic News Service story about National Migration Week and Catholic bishops’ renewed push for action on immigration.