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Shaun Casey

May 1, 2019

Can America's Religious Freedom Ambassador Save the World?

Berkley Center Director Shaun Casey provides insight for a Deseret News article about the way the U.S. State Department handles religious freedom issues, based on his experience as U.S. special representative for religion and global affairs from 2013 to 2017.

Paul Elie

May 1, 2019

Dealing with the Churches

Berkley Center Senior Fellow Paul Elie spoke with the Religion and Ethics Report, part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National, about the system under which Catholic dioceses in New York City have paid clergy sexual abuse survivors more than $200 million. Elie first detailed the process in a New Yorker article.

Peter Mandaville

April 30, 2019

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's Attempts to Capitalize on Sri Lanka Attacks

Berkley Center Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville is quoted in a Business Insider India article examining why al-Baghdadi, the elusive leader of the Islamic State terrorist group, decided to show his face in a new video in an attempt to capitalize on the devastating Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka.

Shaun Casey

April 22, 2019

Global Anxiety about Christian-Muslim Violence

Berkley Center Director Shaun Casey is quoted in the Washington Post about fears that violence in Sri Lanka and elsewhere will feed a narrative that Christians are at war with Muslims.

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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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