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April 27, 2020

Engaging Religious Leaders in Public Health Policy

Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall spoke about engaging religious leaders in public health response to COVID-19 on WORT 89.9 FM, a community radio station in Madison, Wisconsin. Marshall highlighted lessons learned from the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

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April 23, 2020

Messages of Religious Leaders Have “Extraordinary Importance”

In an interview with the World Council of Churches, Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall discusses the ways faith communities and religious leaders have been responding to COVID-19, including their important role in addressing inequality revealed by the pandemic.

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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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