L’Arche’s founder wins £1.1m Templeton Prize
Howard Lake | 12 March 2015 | News
French Canadian Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche, an international network of communities where people with and without intellectual disabilities live and work together as peers, has won the 2015 Templeton Prize.
Valued at £1.1 million, the Templeton Prize is one of the world’s largest annual awards given to an individual and honours a living person who has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life’s spiritual dimension.
The Prize will be awarded on 18th May at the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London.
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