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Katherine Marshall

July 18, 2019

Marshall Attends Seminar on Religious Freedom in South Asia

Katherine Marshall, a Berkley Center senior fellow and executive director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue, participated in the Expert Seminar on Advancing Inter-Religious Dialogue and Freedom of Religion or Belief held July 17 to 18 in Bangkok, Thailand. The conference explored the status of religious freedom in Southeast and South Asia.

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Jocelyne Cesari

July 15, 2019

Cesari Quoted in AP Article on Religious Restrictions

Berkley Center Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari offered expert commentary for an AP article highlighting a new Pew Research Center survey that found increasing government restrictions on religion not only in authoritarian countries, but also European democracies.

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July 12, 2019

The Problems with Mike Pompeo’s Commission of Unalienable Rights

Rev. Drew Christiansen, S.J., writes that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's new Commission on Unalienable Rights is deeply problematic, ignoring the perspectives of other nations on human rights issues and seeking to return our understanding of rights to the days of the American Founding.

Pakistani Christian women hold candles and a cross

July 6, 2019

Christiansen Quoted in Italian Newspaper

Berkley Center Senior Fellow Rev. Drew Christiansen, S.J., provided expert commentary for a recent article on the increasing persecution of Christians around the world, published by Milan-based online newspaper Gli Stati Generali.

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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.

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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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