October is “National Domestic Violence Awareness Month” in the U.S. and in this updated edition of ReligionLink, we provide resources, links, tips, and potential sources to help inform your reporting on religion and domestic abuse.

The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence helps people better understand, respond to and prevent domestic violence. The center has developed a number of key initiatives to facilitate a deeper focus on a particular issue or population, including  VAWnet, the Domestic Violence Awareness Project and Community Based Participatory Research toolkit.

The National Network to End Domestic Violence is a social change organization dedicated to creating a social, political and economic environment in which violence against women no longer exists. Deborah J. Vagins serves as president & CEO. Email contact through website form.

The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence supports efforts that demand a change of conditions that lead to domestic violence, help survivors, hold offenders accountable and equip advocates. Contact is President/CEO Ruth M. Glenn.

With gun violence on the rise across America, more faith groups are getting involved in gun control debates.

How do congregations address the threat of gun violence? And how do they respond if a shooting takes place?

Andrew Brown of The Guardian has an April 25 column exploring why some violent organizations feed off religion and others are atheistic.

Visual data from 2010 research done on video game violence by ProCon, a nonpartisan think tank in Santa Monica, CA.

Read a Jan. 27, 2012, story in The New York Times about efforts to defuse the deep religious divisions in Scotland that are played out in confrontations in the stands at soccer matches.