Chad Bauman is an associate professor of religion at Butler University in Indianapolis. He is conducting a research project, “Pentecostals, Charismatics, Conversion and Hindu-Christian Conflict in Contemporary India,” through a grant from the University of Southern California’s Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative.

Febe Armanios is an associate professor of history at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vt. She is conducting a research project, “Coptic Charismatic Renewal in Egypt: A Modern History,” through a grant from the University of Southern California’s Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative. She specializes in Coptic Christians in the Middle East.

The Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative is a project of the Center for Religion & Civic Culture at the University of Southern California. The initiative awards grants to research centers and individuals to study Pentecostalism and its various renewal movements in four major geographic regions: Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union. Brie […]

Read a June 30, 2014, article from CNN about President Obama’s action on immigration policy issues in the wake of the 2013-14 surge in migrant children at the United States’ southern border.

Read a June 27, 2014, article from Bloomberg View about national developments in immigration policy in the wake of the 2013-14 surge in migrant children at the United States’ southern border.

Read an article from July/August 2014 issue of Mother Jones about the expected surge of unaccompanied children arriving at the southern border of the United States in 2014.

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

Melissa Moschella is an assistant professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C. Her areas of expertise include religious freedom, marriage and sexual ethics, church-state issues and bioethics. Moschella is a frequent commentator to the media. See contributions she made in 2014 to The Washington Post and National Review, as well as appearances she made on […]

Andrew Abela is dean of the School of Business and Economics and associate professor of marketing at the Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C. Abela focuses his research on the integrity of the marketing process, including marketing ethics, Catholic social doctrine and internal communication. He is co-editor of A Catechism for Business: Tough Ethical Questions […]