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May 26, 2020

What Religion Can Offer in the Response to COVID-19

Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall considers the positive and negative roles played by faith actors and religious institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic, in a commentary piece published by the World Politics Review. Marshall highlights lessons from past pandemics on the integration of faith actors in health response. 

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May 20, 2020

Faith-inspired Organizations in Bangladesh’s COVID-19 Crisis Response

As part a May 20 webinar hosted by the Brac University Center for Peace and Justice, Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall spoke about ways the adaptability, social reach, and breadth of work by faith-inspired organizations will be vital in the face of the COVID-19 crisis, which both exacerbates existing problems in Bangladeshi society and poses several novel challenges.

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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.

A family prays at a burial site as the sun comes down on a cloudy day

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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