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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 – Stepping up plans to control the spread of the Coronavirus, now called COVID-19, after the first death among 117 cases confirmed as of March 12, Greece’s New Democracy said violation of protective measures will be treated as a crime and prosecuted.
That came in a memo to prosecutors from the Supreme Court Prosecutor Vassilis Pliotas, warning that there will be severe penalties for people violating regulations aimed at preventing the spread of the disease, reported Kathimerini.
He urged prosecutors to “intervene” in the event that an individual behaves in a manner that “endangers fundamental legally protected rights like the right to life and physical wellbeing,” without elaborating.
But it came after reports of an investigation being ordered into rumors in the western port city of Patra that several people who had been diagnosed with COVID-119 earlier this month had refused to stay in isolation at home and were seen in the community.
The New Democracy government is implementing parts of a multi-faceted scheme for containment but not yet shutting down public gathering places although closing schools for two weeks and with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis urging the elderly to avoid going to Church although Holy Communion hasn’t been banned despite the possibility of spreading the disease through the use of a same spoon for attendants at church services.
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.