{"id":23715,"date":"2018-11-29T17:23:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T17:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23715"},"modified":"2018-11-29T17:23:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T17:23:53","slug":"king-abdullah-receives-templeton-prize-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23715","title":{"rendered":"King Abdullah receives Templeton Prize in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1413101\/middle-east\" readability=\"75\">\n<p>\nLONDON: Jordanian King Abdullah II has received the 2018 Templeton Prize at a ceremony held at the Washington National Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe event earlier this month was attended by ambassadors, Jordanian and US government officials, and Washington political, religious, media, and society leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe King received the award from the Pennsylvania-based John Templeton Foundation, for doing \u201cmore to seek religious harmony within Islam and between Islam and other religions than any other living political leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bikz_g5t3Ps?controls=0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nSpeaking at the ceremony, King Abdullah said: \u201cI am truly humbled to be recognised by all of you. But let me say, everything you honour me for simply carries onward what Jordanians have always done, and how Jordanians have always lived\u2014in mutual kindness, harmony, and brotherhood. And so, I accept this extraordinary prize, not on my own behalf, but on behalf of all Jordanians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nUnited Nations Secretary General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, who attended the ceremony on Nov 13, described the king as \u201cthe outstanding statesman, the messenger for peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nHeather Templeton Dill, president of the John Templeton Foundation, said King Abdullah \u201cis a person shaped by temporal and political responsibilities, yet one who holds the conviction that religious belief and the free exercise of religion are among humankind\u2019s most important callings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nPrevious winners include Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yQvjr_wKr78\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Jordanian King Abdullah II has received the 2018 Templeton Prize at a ceremony held at the Washington National Cathedral. The event earlier this month was attended by ambassadors, Jordanian and US government officials, and Washington political, religious, media, and society leaders. The King received the award from the Pennsylvania-based John Templeton Foundation, for doing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}