Inaugurated in 1994, the John Templeton European Religion Writer of the Year Award is conferred to a journalist for excellence, enterprise and versatility in reporting on religion in the European secular press. An international field of judges with wide media experience makes the award.

The prize carries with it an award of 5,000 Swiss Francs and a citation. The winner will be asked to give a lecture on Religious Information in Today's Society at a cultural center or university. The Conference of European Churches will organize the lecture with the support of the John Templeton Foundation.

Conference of European Churches (CEC) administers this award on behalf of the John Templeton Foundation.

For more information:
Rev. Luca M. Negro
Secretary for Communications and Information
Conference of European Churches
Office of Communications (Templeton Prize),
P.O. Box 2100
1211 Geneva 2 Switzerland
+41 22 791 64 85 (or 791 63 25): tel.
+41 76 382 81 17: mobile
+41 22 791 62 27: fax
Luca.Negro@cec-kek.org
www.cec-kek.org/content/templeton.shtml

Please visit http://www.cec-kek.org/content/rulestempleton.shtml for contest rules.

 

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Award History

2005      Antonio Marujo, Publico, Portugal
2004      Tomas Gärtner, Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, Germany

2003      Jacques Fortier, Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace, France

2002      Agneta Lagercrantz, Svenska Dagbladet, Sweden

2001      Henri Tincq, Le Monde, France

2000      Pieter van der Ven, Trouw, The Netherlands

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