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COVID-19

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The COVID-19 crisis presented faith communities around the world with unique challenges and opportunities to engage in contemporary debates on global health policy, bioethics, religious freedom, and social welfare. These resources consider how religion both impacted and was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Katherine Marshall

Senior Fellow
Walsh School of Foreign Service, Executive Director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue

Current and Past Projects

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Religious Responses to COVID-19

This project has been a collaborative effort to explore the responses of religious actors to the COVID-19 pandemic and organize information so that it could be quickly found and used by development policymakers and practitioners and religious actors who seek to work together in the COVID-19 response.

COVID-19 A-Z Subtopics

Narrow your search for COVID-19 content by selecting from this list of subtopics

Videos

September 22, 2023

2023 Global Social Justice Research Symposium Panel 2 (Video)

Duration: 1 hours 1 minutes

June 7, 2022

Ballroom C, 1st Session, Multireligious collaboration to improve pandemic response & resilience (EN) (Video)

Duration: 1 hours 6 minutes

April 29, 2022

Webinar: Listening to the Stories of Local Faith Actors on COVID-19 Response (Video)

Duration: 1 hours 32 minutes

Publications

Report July 1, 2024

Sri Lanka Responds to COVID-19: Lessons in Preparing for the Future- Quantitative Study

The World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD) supported the research conducting in Sri Lanka on COVID-19, which included quantitative and qualitative components. The objective of the quantitative study was to identify the community responses and lasting impacts due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka. A total of 1,100 households were included, ranging from urban to rural to estate sectors. This…

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