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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – A showdown is looming when Greek Bishops and the Holy Synod is set for a Nov. 16 meeting over a tentative agreement that Archbishop Ieronymos reached with atheist Prime Minister and Radical Left SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras not to oppose separation of Church and State if the government pays the salaries of 9,000 clerics after moving them off state payrolls.
Under the agreement, the priests, who are now paid directly by the government, would be paid by the Church of Greece – which would get the money from the government.
Although that doesn’t reduce any state spending, Tsipras – trailing badly in polls with elections required by October, 2019 – said the move would allow him to hire 10,000 more workers, which critics said is a transparent attempt to buy votes, practiced by every government.
Media reports said that the Bishops oppose the deal and the agreement does not foresee cuts in the priests’ pay but they would no longer be civil servants, an idea that many clerics object to without explaining why as they would still be paid through a different method.
Among the most prominent opponents are Bishops Chrysostomos of Messinia and Anthimos of Thessaloniki said Kathimerini. Members of the Association of Greek Clergymen met with political party leaders on Nov. 14 to express their concerns.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.