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April 8, 2020

Religion and COVID-19: Four Lessons from the Ebola Experience

Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall and co-authors Dave Robinson and Dr. Olivia Wilkinson explore how lessons on faith engagement in the Ebola crisis can be applied to the COVID-19 pandemic. The piece is published in the Oxfam blog From Poverty to Power.

Katherine Marshall

April 3, 2020

Religious Communities' Role in Countering Epidemics

Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall led a conference call on the role of religious communities in pandemic response, focused on the COVID-19 crisis. The call, hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations, brought together several hundred faith leaders, development practitioners, and global health experts.

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March 31, 2020

Coping with the Coronavirus

Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall participated in a March 31 video panel on COVID-19 hosted by the World Council of Churches. In her discussion with medical experts and church leaders, she drew comparisons with the HIV pandemic, arguing that religious institutions and leaders can be part of the problem, but are also part of the solution.

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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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