Only one day until the Compassion Forum. Already the pundits are opining about what this means for Americans of faith and the presidential candidates. It was not long ago that the media mostly treated the GOP as more Christian than Democrats, and forgot to talk about the interfaith diversity of the American public.

CNN is starting to plug Sunday's Compassion Forum.
Faith leaders will converse with presidential candidates about poverty, global HIV/AIDS, genocide and Darfur, climate change, human rights and torture.

This Sunday evening CNN is broadcasting a conversation between diverse faith leaders and presidential candidates Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama.

The Compassion Forum is focused on just five important issues to folks of faith: domestic and international poverty, global AIDS, climate change, genocide in Darfur, and human rights and torture.

I was down at the San Francisco Olympic protests this week, and while Tibet was the biggest draw, the green-shirted Save Darfur folks were a strong presence. Mix in Burma, the Vietnamese fishermen and it's pretty clear that the next U.S. president will have to take some serious leadership in addressing the human rights abuses fueled by run-away Chinese capitalism.

Learn more about this Sunday's Compassion Forum here. Faith leaders, presidential candidates and Jon Meacham of Newsweek this Sunday. 8PM ET/5PM PT on CNN.

DARFUR

As some of you know, I also work with Faith in Public Life and this Sunday, April 13, CNN will be broadcasting a special conversation with presidential candidates* Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama. This historic Compassion Forum has been organized by interfaith leaders from across the ideological spectrum and will focus on five key issues: domestic and international poverty, global AIDS, climate change, genocide in Darfur, and human rights and torture.