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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 – The death of an 8-year-old boy from diptheria – although he had been inoculated against the disease through eradicated 30 years earlier – and a growing social media movement against vaccinations has led Greece’s government to make injections required for children under four years old.
That is included in a Health Ministry bill being prepared, said the business newspaper Naftemporiki, after other diseases also believed to have been stamped out, including viruses, bacteria, measles and rubella are resurging because of people who don’t believe vaccinations work or think they are government conspiracies against them.
Under the measure, parents would get text messages informing them of precautionary exams and free checkups but it wasn’t said how the law requiring mandatory vaccinations would be enforced and with no immediate word of protests against it or legal action.
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.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
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.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.