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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.
ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has opened his country’s borders to let refugees and migrants get out, blasted Greece for suspending asylum applications for scores of those of people penned up in detention centers and camps.
With his country having one of the worst human rights records in the world and jailing journalists by the dozens, he called on Greece to comply with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations he doesn’t technically recognize.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the temporary suspension, invoking an emergency clause of the European Union’s treaty “to ensure full European support.” He said Greece is guarding the EU borders too by sending army units and riot police to the area along the Evros River to keep out thousands more refugees and migrants.
“We call on, notably, Greece and all EU countries to respectfully treat the refugees, which came to their territories, in line with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” Erdogan was quoted by Turkish media as telling a meeting of his party’s parliamentary group.
The reports said he showed a photo allegedly depicting Greek refugees that fled the Nazi occupation to Syria during World War II. “One of the Greek boys or girls in this photo is maybe the grandfather or grandmother of Mitsotakis,” Erdogan was quoted as saying.
“Do not forget that one day (Greeks) may find themselves in a situation where they will have to seek compassion,” he reportedly said as his country has also stepped up other provocations with Greece.
That has included repeated violations of Greek airspace and waters by Turkish fighter jets and warships and making a deal with Libya dividing the seas between them, Erdogan saying he would send energy ships to drill off Crete and also claiming waters near Rhodes.
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.
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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".