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February 12, 2012

Katherine Marshall Blogs: Harmony Among Religions at the United Nations?

The United Nations General Assembly began on February 11 to debate Syria's prolonged and bitter tragedy of killing, after the Security Council, next door, failed miserably to find enough agreement among the world's dominant nations to act. On February 7 in the same General Assembly Hall a very different group gathered in a very different spirit.

February 8, 2012

Jose Casanova Giving Ensign Lecture at Yale

Jose Casanova will give the Loring Sabin Ensign Lecture at Yale Divinity School on February 21, 2012. He will speak on the topic "Global Religious and Secular Trends."

February 7, 2012

Katherine Marshall at the UN for World Interfaith Harmony Week

Katherine Marshall spoke at the UN on February 7, 2012 for World Interfaith Harmony Week on the topic "Revitalization of the United Nations." World Interfaith Harmony Week brings together world leaders and religious groups to demonstrate their common ground on shared areas of concern.

February 7, 2012

Paul Elie joins the Berkley Center

Paul Elie, author of the award-winning The Life You Save May be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage, has joined the Berkley Center as a senior fellow. Elie will lead the American Pilgrimage Project, a partnership with StoryCorps that will aim to document the faith lives of ordinary Americans.

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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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