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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.
ATEHNS — October 28, 1940 "is a great milestone for Greece," Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and All Greece said on Wednesday, following a special liturgy for the historic anniversary.
"We must see where we are, what we are missing, and what we want. It's an anniversary under unfavorable, difficult conditions, but we are obliged – under any circumstances – to carry out our duties," the archbishop said, expressing the hope that "these days pass quickly to bring celebrations and sparkling feasts" again.
Attendance at the Athens cathedral was sparse because of the rising cases of infections in Greece. The government spokesman had announced on Friday that the prime minister, who attends national holiday liturgies with cabinet members, prompted by a call by the archbishop to avoid large gatherings and crowding.
Attendees included representatives of Archbiship Theodoros of Alexandria, the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and Armed Forces representatives among others.
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.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
NASHVILLE, ΤΝ – With a special event organized by the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy - U.