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December 8, 2011

AIDS: From Judgment to Hope

World AIDS Day on December 1 was marked with an inspiring flood of articles, reports, demonstrations, speeches, services, and much more. The overall tone was worried optimism. The optimism is because, finally, after years of extraordinary effort, we can see tangible progress in saving lives and slowing the ravages of this terrible global pandemic, that 30 years ago was just a blip on scientific radar screens.

December 8, 2011

José Casanova Discusses Confucianism in Beijing

Professor José Casanova gave a presentation on Confucianism and religion at Peking University on December 8, 2011. He was there at the invitation of the university's Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies.

December 2, 2011

Katherine Marshall Speaking on Webinar with Parliament of the World's Religions

On December 14th, the Center's Katherine Marshall will be a featured speaker on a webinar with the Parliament of the World's Religions. The webinar will focus on faith-inspired approaches to ending poverty and the spiritual and practical imperatives that emerge from the intersections of religion and development.

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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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