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October 21, 2020

Georgetown Faculty Discuss COVID-19, Global Issues at G20 Interfaith Forum

Georgetown faculty explored critical issues in international development—including the COVID-19 pandemic, human trafficking, and education—at the 2020 G20 Interfaith Forum, held virtually from October 13 to 16. Senior Fellows Katherine Marshall and Thomas Banchoff spoke at the conference.

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January 6, 2025

Georgetown Welcomes Cardinal Robert McElroy as New Archbishop of Washington

Over the past decade, McElroy has visited Georgetown and engaged with events hosted by the Berkley Center and the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life. He also contributed a chapter to the Georgetown University Press book A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament, co-edited by the late Rev. Drew Christiansen, S.J., then a Berkley Center senior fellow.

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December 13, 2024

Student Research on Religion and COVID-19 in Sri Lanka

In "The Right to Bury Their Dead," Minahil Mahmud (SFS'25) examines the challenges faced by the Muslim community in Sri Lanka when the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa mandated in April 2020 that all victims of COVID-19 would be cremated, irrespective of their religious beliefs.

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