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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 – While much of life in Greece seems almost normal with the end of a lockdown aimed at preventing the spread of COVID-19, officials said there were another 19 cases on June 20 and another death.
That brought the number of cases to 3,254 with 190 deaths, the media age of cases at 48 and of deaths at 76, with underlying conditions a major catalyst making the virus more deadly during the pandemic that’s hanging on.
Nine patients were still on ventilators, authorities said, the ongoing cases a reminder that while the country is trying to recover and tourists now arriving that the virus is resistant and lingering.
While it hasn’t gone away yet, Greece ranks 90th in the world in the number of cases, a far better record that most countries, with an early lockdown imposed by Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on the advice of a scientific and medical team lauded for the relative success there.
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.
ALBANY – New York State Senate Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris, Senator Andrew Gounardes, and Senator James Skoufis honored Greek Independence at the State Capitol on March 26, welcoming His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, who offered an invocation before the Senate.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S.
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".