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April 9, 2012

Millennial Values Survey Release

What is distinctive about Millennials? How will their views shape the 2012 campaign? On Thursday, April 19, the Berkley Center and the Public Religion Research Institute released a groundbreaking survey of 18-24 year-olds on faith, values, and the 2012 election.

March 22, 2012

World Water Day: A Call to Faith

March 22 is World Water Day, and today events the world over focus on water's importance, for life in every form, and for the human spirit. Few would disagree that WASH -- the acronym that links water, sanitation and hygiene -- is a critical need.

March 22, 2012

Center Welcomes Jocelyne Cesari

Islam expert Jocelyne Cesari has joined the Center as a Senior Research Fellow. She directs the international “Islam in the West" program and is the creator of Islamopedia, a leading online resource for the contemporary study of Islam in society and politics. At the Center, she will continue to lead both projects and develop a new program on Islam in World Politics.

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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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