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NEW YORK, USA | Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew received the prestigious Templeton Prize in New York, underscoring the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s decades-long vision of bridging faith, science and humanity’s shared future. The ceremony was attended by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and prominent members of the Greek-American community.
In his acceptance speech, Bartholomew warned that estrangement between science and faith is “a historical mistake,” since both address the same truth in different languages. “When I see a physicist measuring the acceleration of melting glaciers in the Arctic and a theologian contemplating the groans of creation, I see two people reading the same book—the book of nature and the book of scripture—in different languages,” he said.
He sharply criticized distortions of religion, such