Christian women in Rome started the first hospitals. Attitudes toward women, children, strangers, the elderly, the mentally ill have a way to go but have been modified massively by religion's reforms. Slavery cannot stand. The standard of treatment for human beings in virtually every circumstance is better in Europe and the Americas because of the civilizing powers of biblical belief. Read Lecky's History of European Morals.
Recent history is no different.
From the civil rights movement to the push for peace and from child labor laws to campaign finance reform churches and synagogues have been cells of sedition and engines for change. William Temple explained this engagement. Vast areas of common concern bind people of faith together for good and they should. We understand that basic values do not belong to those who glibly try to claim them as their exclusive virtues. Rather, real religion resides in the practiced faith of those whose values shape their lives rather than merely their rhetoric.