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December 3, 2018

Building Coalitions to End Child Marriage

On the Berkley Forum bloggers, including Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall, consider how child marriage can be addressed both legally and practically without infringing on religious rights and the role religious communities should play in addressing justification for child marriage.

Jocelyne Cesari

November 20, 2018

Women, Faith, and Culture

Watch Berkley Center Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari's presentation on women's rights, Islam, and democracy at the "Women, Faith and Culture" seminar in Rome, sponsored by the International Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Education.

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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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