Georgetown backdrop

Newsroom

Faculty News

Showing 1077-1080 out of 1318 News

August 7, 2012

Searching for Peace in Nigeria

Sister Agatha Chikelue, founder of the Women of Faith Network in Abuja, explains why interfaith dialogue is important in Nigeria. She says that Muslim and Christian female religious leaders can work together to help find a resolution to the violence.

August 6, 2012

Faith Alive in Phnom Penh

Katherine Marshall explores the "spirit houses" that play a major role in Cambodian daily life but are rooted in ancient traditions. These small shrines provide a place to make offerings to comfort and appease spirits and say much about how Cambodians live their Buddhist faith.

August 3, 2012

Saudi Women and the Olympics

Jocelyn Cesari argues that the participation of two Saudi female athletes in the Games is not a sign of improving conditions for women living in the Gulf state. Most Muslim countries have sent female athletes to the Olympics for decades; Saudi Arabia was only looking to avoid a ban from the IOC.

Other News

Showing 1077-1080 out of 1119 News

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.

Opens in a new window