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Pope Francis gives Urbi et Orbi blessing in an empty St. Peter's Square on March 27 (Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

April 10, 2020

Pope Francis and the Coronavirus Pandemic During Easter Holy Week

In a Daily Comment for the New Yorker Senior Fellow Paul Elie reflects on the powerful images coming out of Rome in this holy season—and how they convey the vision of a humble, service-oriented Catholicism Pope Francis has proposed all along.

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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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The WFLF 2024-2025 fellows and the WFLF team.

April 3, 2025

Women Faith Leaders Fellowship Empowers Sisters to Lead Change

The Women Faith Leaders Fellowship (WFLF), hosted by the Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, is working to create an environment where women faith leaders are positioned at the forefront of innovative and holistic development efforts to advance the well-being of women and girls. The 2024-2025 cohort are currently working on their capstone projects, and will come the Hilltop Campus in May. 

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March 26, 2025

Lucinda Mosher to Moderate Panel on Human Dignity Across Sacred Traditions

On April 10, 2025, Berkley Center Research Fellow Lucinda Mosher will moderate a panel at the "3rd Sacred Languages Symposium: Human Dignity," hosted by Hartford International University for Religion & Peace. The symposium explores how sacred texts across diverse traditions articulate and uphold the concept of human dignity.   

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