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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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – With volatility in the region around Greece, it is “vital” for closer links with the United States Congress – using the Diaspora – New Democracy’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Greek Abroad Antonis Diamataris told the first Southeast Europe & East Med conference here.
Diamataris, on leave as Publisher/Editor of the National Herald to join the administration of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said while the Diaspora has been a stabilizing force through a series of crises that tested relations with its constant ally, the United States, and “taught important lessons on how the [US] political system works and the role of Congress in general, especially in formulating foreign policy,” said Greece’s state-run Athens-Macedonia News Agency.
At the event organized by the Delphic Economic Forum and the newspaper Kathimerini he said that times have changed and that Greece should take advantage of the Diaspora’s powerful base of constituents who are key lobbyists for the Congress.
He stressed the contribution of US Senators Bob Menendez of New Jersey and John Sarbanes of Maryland, both Democrats, in presenting and defending Greece’s positions to American lawmakers, and praised the work of the Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues, a body of 130 members of Congress, chaired by Gus Bilirakis of Florida, a Republican, and Carolyn Maloney of New York, a Democrat.
Diamataris noted the strengthening of ties with the Jewish community in America, calling it a “natural alliance” with a “huge multiplier effect,” the ANA-MPA said.
But he warned that, “You can never relax when we’re talking about a part of the world like Greece, Cyprus and Israel,” and said that the relationship between the three countries is “a continuous process.”
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.