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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.
Cyprus is sowing the seeds of a demographic problem, the country among those with the lowest birth rates in the world and with a rapidly aging population and the numbers of the young declining.
A United Nations report showed Cyprus with a birth rate of only 1.3, Greece, Italy and Portugal, just ahead of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Singapore where the rate is 1.2. The lowest is South Korea at 1.1, barely above more births than deaths annually.
Earlier, a European Commission report said the life expectancy in Cyprus by 2070 will be 86 for men and 90 for women but that the 20-39 group wil fall 10-15 percent and the 60-80 group jumping to 30 percent, putting severe strain on the ability to fund pensions.
The total population will reach 1.1 million by 2070 while deaths will by then be slightly higher than births, causing the population to start shrinking although the fertility rate will be around 1.5, the report said in its findings.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
TORONTO (AP) — Police said nine people are facing charges in what authorities are calling the biggest gold theft in Canadian history from Toronto’s Pearson International airport a year ago.
WASHINGTON, DC – The 3rd Nikos Mouyiaris Memorial Lecture which had been scheduled for April 20 at Rutgers University in New Jersey will be rescheduled for the fall of 2024 as the organizers received a call from U.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Greek-American Maria Passalaris, 25, was tragically killed in a car accident on April 12 on Highway 1 near Princeton, NJ.
The recent tragicomic events at the church of the All-Holy Taxiarhes in the area of Megalo Revma of Constantinople, specifically, the assault by Archimandrite Chrysanthos on Metropolitan Athenagoras of Kydonion which involved the slapping of the archpriest's cheeks while he was venerating the icon of the Virgin Mary, are not only lamentable but also pitiful for the Patriarchate itself.
RUMFOLD, RI – Anastasia Georgiadis, 83, of Rumford, RI, passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family.