Ecumenical Patriarch: "Scientific knowledge is the "great power" of our time"translated
A.Th. Panagiotis the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos received on the afternoon of Thursday, November 5, 2026, the participating Doctors in the Scientific Meeting on the protection of children from nicotine addiction, headed by Ellogim. Professor Panagiotis Behrakis, President of the European Network for Smoking Prevention. "Medicine is not only not a field of conflict between science and faith, but an area of cooperation between two great spiritual forces, for the good of man", emphasized His Holiness, addressing the Conferences and continued:
"Scientific knowledge is the "great power" of our time, which claims a decisive role for our present and future. But, despite the dizzying progress of science and technology, it is proven every day that the answer to the fundamental existential questions and moral dilemmas of man is impossible to give without a "spiritual approach". All this also applies to the work and goals of the European Network for the prevention of smoking, and the special he cares about protecting children from nicotine addiction.”
The Patriarch, at another point in the greeting...
