Dalia Hashad is the Arab, Muslim, South Asian advocate for the American Civil Liberties Union. She is part of the Campaign Against Racial Profiling, which focuses on issues facing Arab, Muslim and South Asian Americans in a post-9/11 world. 

Vijay Singal is the secretary of the Hindu Council of Australia in Homebush, New South Wales. In 2012, Hinduism became the fastest-growing religion in Australia, largely due to the number of Indian and Sri Lankan immigrants coming to the continent. He can discuss the diversity of Hinduism in Australia.

The New York Times maintains an archive of all its coverage on national immigration and emigration issues.

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life reports that as of 2010, 39 percent of the world’s Catholics live in Latin America and nearly three-quarters of that region’s population is Catholic.

Read a March 11, 2013, account by journalist John Thavis about the last conclave, in which Bergoglio was reportedly runner-up for the papacy.

CNN reported an enthusiastic response from Latin America, and leaders of other faith groups in that region told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette they were pleased by Francis’ elevation and had had a good rapport with him during his time as a cardinal.

Births among minority groups, mainly Latinos, now outnumber births among whites – a result of immigration and birth rates.

See an Oct. 3, 2012, video and story at TheHill.com about an ad that appears to pit African-Americans against immigrants.

Read a critique of liberation theology in a 1994 article by Edward A. Lynch of Hollins College in Roanoke, Va., from the website CatholicCulture.org.