European prize for Religion Writing in the Secular Press

TEMPLETON AWARD FOR RELIGIOUS WRITING

From 1994 to 2006, the Office of Communications of the Conference of European Churches (CEC), in conjunction with the John Templeton Foundation, administered the "John Templeton European Religion Writer of the Year Award". The aim of the award has been to honour journalists who write about religion in the secular press with accuracy, impartiality and with an ecumenical spirit.

The "John Templeton European Religion Writer of the Year Award" has been presented to the following journalists:

1994: Andrew Brown, "The Independent", UK
1995: António Marujo, "Público", Portugal
1996: Kerstin Wallis, "Göteborgs-Posten", Sweden
1997: Andrei Zolotov, "The Moscow Times", Russia
1998: Patsy McGarry, "The Irish Times", Ireland
1999: Alain Dupraz, "Tribune de Genève", Switzerland
2000: Pieter van der Ven, "Trouw", The Netherlands
2001: Henri Tincq, "Le Monde", France
2002: Agneta Lagercrantz, "Svenska Dagbladet", Sweden
2003: Jacques Fortier, "Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace", France
2004: Tomas Gärtner, "Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten", Germany
2005: António Marujo, "Público", Portugal
2006: Tom Heneghan, Reuters Press Agency, Paris


From left to right: Tom Heneghan, CEC Communications Secretary Luca M. Negro and Templeton Foundation Vice-President Pamela Thompson. The award ceremony took place in Paris on 27 November 2007. (photo CEC/Robin Gurney)

2006 Award: Tom Heneghan, Paris
The 2006 winner was Tom Heneghan from the Reuters Press Service, Paris, France. (See our press release at: pr-cq0740e). His acceptance speech can be found at: Acceptance Speech - English, and Discours du récipiendaire - French.

ARCHIVE OF PREVIOUS AWARD SPEECHES AND LECTURES:
2005 António Marujo's lecture in Portuguese and English
2004: Tomas Gärtner - Lecture English and German