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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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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.

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January 29, 2026

Religion, Ethics, and World Affairs Minor Program Inspires Students to Research and Reflect

The Religion, Ethics, and World Affairs Minor (REWA) is an academic program run by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University. As a core project of the center’s student programs, the REWA minor invites Georgetown students to learn about the many ways in which religious traditions have been uniquely intertwined with the everchanging world around us.

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January 1, 2026

Jerome Copulsky on What Comes After the Declaration of Independence

In a Liberty Fund essay, Berkley Center Research Fellow Jerome Copulsky reflects on what the founding document left open once independence was declared, arguing that the declaration offers guiding ideals, but the work of turning those principles into reality falls to each generation. 

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