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December 15, 2016

Faith Organizations Gather in Rome to Discuss Ways to Fight Antimicrobial Resistance

A Berkley Center co-sponsored workshop examining ways faith-based organizations might address the growing global health threat of antimicrobial resistance can help “bring God’s healing to a world so much in need.” The workshop was organized by the center with the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See, the U.S. Department of State Office of Religion and Global Affairs, and Caritas International. The GHR Foundation provided funding.

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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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