Nabeel Abraham teaches anthropology and directs the honors program at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn, Mich. He co-edited Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream.

William K. Mahony is a religion professor at Davidson College in Davidson, N.C. He is an expert in contemplative and Vedic Hinduism.

The Pluralism Project of Harvard University maintains a page on religious statistics and relies on various sources to count 1.2 million Hindus in the U.S. The project lists Hindu temples and centers in the U.S.

The World Christian Database at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary provides statistics on world religions, denominations, and groups. It estimates that there are slightly more than 1.1 million Hindus in America.

Ted A. Campbell is an associate professor of church history at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He is the author of The Gospel in Christian Traditions (2008).

The OCA Department of Youth Young Adult and Campus Ministry produces and distributes official statements and news releases of the Orthodox Church in America, maintains relations with the media, responds to requests for information of a general and specific nature, and oversees the content and functioning of the Orthodox Church in America’s website.  

Brother Charles Hilken is a history professor at St. Mary’s College of California. Papal elections and the history of the papacy are among his areas of expertise.

Ulrich Lehner is an associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. He knew Pope Benedict XVI personally and studied in his department at the University of Regensburg in Germany. His areas of expertise include the history of Christianity after 1500 and global Catholic studies, as well as gender and race in the […]

Rabbi Abie Ingber is executive director at the Center of Interfaith Community Engagement at Xavier University in Cincinnati. He can discuss the pope as a world leader in Catholic-Jewish dialogue.