♪ >>> coming up kim lawton looks at a top religious freedom priority, the reopening of turkey's halkieminary. it was shut down by the turkish government in 1971. >>> also the music and spirituality of singer/songwriter bruce kober. >>> major funding for "religion & ethics weekly" is provided by the lily endowment an indianapolis-based private family foundation dedicated to its founders in religion community development and education. additional funding also provided by mutual of america, designing customized, individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome i'm bob abernethy. president obama's state of the union focused on proposals to help working class families and what the president called middle class economics. he also highlighted a host of social issues and cited america's respect for human dignity. >> that's why we defend free speech, advocate for political prisoners and condemn the persecution of women, rel%rçk[s minorities, or people lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. we do this not only because they're the right thing to do

. >>> plus, kim lawton on eastern orthodox christians celebrating epiphany. >>> major funding for "religion and ethics newsweekly" is provided by the lily endowment an indianapolis based private family foundation dedicated to its founders' interests in religion, community development and education. additional funding also provided by mutual of america. designing customized, individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. i'm bob abernethy. it's good to have you with us. >>> faith groups around the world this week expressed outrage and grief after the attack on the paris office of the satirical newspaper "charlie hebdo." the paper had been targeted in the past for printing caricatures of the prophet mohammed. the muslim public affairs council strongly condemned the attack, saying it stood in contradiction to how mohammed responded to insults. interfaith groups urged the public not to retaliate against muslims. at a vatican chapel mass, pope francis denounced the attacks as human cruelty. he prayed for the victims and asked god to "change the he

. >>> joining me now are kim lawton our managing editor and haris tarin, director of the washington officef the muslim public affairs council. haris, welcome back here. what has this week meant for muslims in this country? >> well, what i think that it's done is that it's reignited the debate around islam and violence again. and american muslims are having to come out and say that this type of violence and extremist ideology does not represent who they are or what they believe or even the 1.6 billion muslims across the world who practice their faith peacefully on a daily basis. >> but are there specific responses? are there, you know, practical things that the u.s. muslim community can do within this environment? >> there are. the first thing that the american muslim community can do is engage fellow citizens, really understand, really help people understand who they are, what they believe, and where they're coming from. there's a lot of misunderstanding. four out of ten americans only know a muslim. if that number increases, i think the misunderstanding, the misinformation, will also decr

dionne, kevin eckstrom, and kim lawton. i'm bob abernathy. from all of us, every good wish for a wonderful new year. >>> major funding for "religion and ethics news weekly" is provided by the lily endowment. dedicated to its founders' interest in religion, community development, and education. additional funding also provided by mutual of america. designing customized, individual, and group retirement products. that's why we're your environment company. you. >> rose: welcome to the program. i'm charlie rose. this is a special new year's edition of "charlie rose: the week." just ahead, art, henri matisse, and jeff koons. >> i always wanted to make work that people would not feel that they had to bring anything to the table other than who they are and who they are up to that moment. that they're perfect, that, you know, it's-- the art is about them. it's about their possibility and to empower people. >> rose: we'll have those stories and more on what happened and what might happen.