The Jewish Light is a Jewish publication covering Southeast Louisiana. It is published by United Media Corp. in Covington, La.

Bayou Catholic is a magazine affiliated with the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux in Louisiana.

The Clarion Herald is the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

Khaled Helmy is a visiting professor in the political science department at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he teaches a course in the comparative politics of the Middle East.

The National Association of Veterans Affairs Chaplains is the professional association for veterans affairs chaplains. Chaplain Stephen Brandow, a Catholic priest, of the VA Medical Center in Alexandria, La., is president.

Sister Helen Prejean is a Roman Catholic nun and author of Dead Man Walking, an account of her ministry with death row inmates in Louisiana’s Angola State Prison that was turned into an Oscar-winning film in 1996. Her most recent book is The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions. Prejean, whose office is in New Orleans, […]

Bill Day is a professor at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and associate director of its Leavell Center for Evangelism and Church Health. His areas of specialization include evangelism and church growth.

Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana, is the son of Indian immigrants. He grew up Hindu but converted to Catholicism. Contact via Mike Reed, director of communications.

Martha K. Huggins is Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Relations at Tulane University in New Orleans and co-author of Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities.