Sarah Bassin is the rabbi in residence for HIAS, where she helps connect clergy and communities to the work of aiding and advocating for refugees and asylum-seekers. As the product of an interfaith background, Bassin is also involved in interfaith work. Contact is via Bassin’s website.

Béatrice Hainaut is a researcher on space issues for the Institute for Strategic Research, Paris. Her work has focused on the emergence and promotion of behavioral norms relating to the safety of space activities, including religion and spirituality.

Cometan, also known as Brandon Reece Taylorian, is an associate lecturer in the Lancaster University Law School and an associate lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, where he teaches on the program Religion, Culture and Society. His research interests include freedom of religion or belief, new religious movements, traditionalist Catholicism and the relationship between […]

This edition of ReligionLink provides insight on Pope Francis’ tenure in the papal office, in-depth information about how a new pope will be chosen and leads on who the top contenders are to lead more than 1.3 billion Roman Catholics worldwide.

Sai Datta Peetham and Cultural Center distributes food to homeless shelters in the Edison, New Jersey, area through its “Sandwich Seva & Fruit Distribution” program.

SecularHelp, also known as Secular Helping People Alliance, was founded with the mission of empowering people to find purpose and meaning free from the influence of religious, supernatural or pseudo-scientific beliefs. It offers secular meditation, legacy counseling and, through its Helping the Homeless program, direct, practical support to individuals experiencing homelessness. The president and executive […]

Tencho Gyatso is President of the International Campaign for Tibet, the largest Tibet support group in the world with offices in Washington DC, Amsterdam, Berlin and Brussels.

Namgyal Choedup is Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Office of Tibet based in Washington DC.

David Seljak is a professor of religion at the University of Waterloo. He studies multiculturalism in Canada and Quebec, with interests in the sociology of Canadian Catholicism.