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February 18, 2011

Luce/SFS Project Presentation at UN

On February 23 the Center's Tom Banchoff and Katherine Marshall presented the results of six global workshops over four years that map new constellations of religion and development worldwide. The project is supported by the Henry Luce Foundation.

February 15, 2011

Katherine Marshall Blogs: Evangelicals and Islam

A group of American Christians, most of them evangelicals, met for four days last weekend with a distinguished group of Moroccans at Eastern Mennonite University, concluding with a public session Monday at Georgetown University's Berkley Center. To an outsider, the point of the conclave was not easy to fathom.

February 11, 2011

Katherine Marshall on Morocco: It's Complicated

The rapid-fire events in Tunisia and Egypt have caught people everywhere by surprise. That's especially true in the neighborhood (North Africa and the Middle East). As I headed for Morocco for a weekend conference, I hoped to emerge with a far clearer understanding, both of what sparked these popular upheavals now, and what might lie ahead.

January 31, 2011

Forgotten Crisis: Stateless in Bangladesh

The Center's Katherine Marshall blogs on the Washington Post's OnFaith page about the Rohingya, Muslim refugees in Bangladesh whose situation is described as the world's most forgotten crisis and one of the most desperate. Read the blog here and read a piece co-authored by the Center's Melody Fox Ahmed and WFDD's Michael Bodakowski on the Rohingya and Muslim Aid, a UK-based, Islamic-inspired group working with the Rohingya in Bangaldesh.

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February 5, 2025

Rev. Gerard J. McGlone Calls for Victim-Centered Reforms in Anglican Abuse Scandals

Berkley Center Research Fellow Rev. Gerald J. McGlone, S.J., has been quoted in an article by Religion News Service about recent abuse cases within Anglican denominations.

February 4, 2025

Jerome Copulsky Discusses His Book on Podcast

Research Fellow Jerome Copulsky joined Mark Noll and James Patterson on the Law & Liberty Podcast to discuss his new book American Heretics (2024).

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.

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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.