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March 25, 2020

New Country Profiles on Freedom of Religion or Belief

Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall is one of the lead authors on a newly released set of reports examining freedom of religion or belief in South and Southeast Asia. They are part of the consortium project Southeast Asia: Advancing Inter-Religious dialogue and Freedom of Religion or Belief (SEA-AIR).

David Hollenbach

March 25, 2020

David Hollenbach and the Jesuit Culture of Encounter

Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J., has applied Christian social ethics to some of the most pressing issues over the last 40 years. This profile explores how encounter, a key theme in Jesuit thought and practice, has shaped his timely work on a wide-ranging set of issues, from economic reform and human rights to the refugee crisis.

Empty wooden chairs in a church

March 23, 2020

Reflections on Liturgy and Community in the Midst of the COVID-19 Crisis

Berkley Center Senior Research Fellow Amy Uelmen describes on Mirror of Justice why religious communities who've temporarily ceased public liturgies to enforce social distancing are displaying loving solidarity, not cowardly capitulation, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tourist with mask stands in an empty St. Peter's Square, Vatican City

March 19, 2020

Religion and COVID-19: JLI and Berkley Center Launch Platform

The International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development describes a new joint project of the Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, and World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD) to collect and communicate information related to religious action responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Berkley Center Senior Fellow and WFDD Executive Director Katherine Marshall is a project leader.

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Cardinal Robert McElroy speaking in front of a podium in Copley Formal Lounge

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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