Berkley Center

Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall participated in a March 12 panel examining interfaith education and its supporting collaborative networks in combatting intolerance, negative stereotyping of, and discrimination and violence against persons based on religion or belief. Hosted by the G20 Interfaith Forum, this was a side event held during the 55th Session of the UN Human Rights Council.

Senior Fellow Katherine Marshall contributed a chapter entitled "The Complex Context for Social Welfare and Human Capacity Strategies in Africa" to the book Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare: Associational Life and Religion in Contemporary Africa and Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), edited by Research Fellow Paul Manuel.

Georgetown University welcomed Dr. Benjamin Park, associate professor of history at Sam Houston State University, for a February 2 conversation about his most recent book, American Zion: A New History of Mormonism (2024). Dr. Park joined Berkley Center Senior Research Fellow Judd Birdsall for a discussion about the history of Mormonism and how the religion succeeded in the United States.

Writing a Daily Comment for the New Yorker, Senior Fellow Paul Elie examines the ways Pope Francis and other Catholic and Vatican figures have sought to address the war in Gaza—two years after they sought to address the war in Ukraine.