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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.
NICOSIA — Cyprus’ Orthodox Christian Church lashed out against homosexuality after activists announced the country’s first gay pride festival.
The Holy Synod, the Church’s highest decision-making body, said it looks upon efforts to give homosexuality social and legal acceptance with “concern and grief.”
“The Church and science consider homosexuality to be the human being’s fall from grace and an illness and not a natural way of life or choice,” the Holy Synod said in a statement.
It said although the Church condemns homosexuality, it loves and supports the “fallen” and prays that they seek God’s mercy.
The statement came after activists said a two-week festival would culminate in a May 31 parade in the capital, Nicosia.
The head of Accept LGBT Cyprus, Costas Gavrielides, said the festival will include film screenings, book presentations, musical events and participants from the TurkishCypriot community in the ethnically split island’s breakaway north.
European Union member Cyprus decriminalized homosexuality a dozen years ago but it still ranks low in terms of gay rights, according to activists. Gavrielides said the country still needs to pass laws recognizing same-sex partnerships and against inciting anti-gay violence.
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.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.