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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.
His Grace Seraphim of Apollonia, a bishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, spoke insultingly about the Greek-American community after a service at the All Saints parish in a suburb of Sidney.
Welcoming Metropolitan Ignatios of Dimitriados, who was visiting from Greece, he said of Australian Greeks that “you can be certain that clergy and lay people alike, are faithful to the homeland…during this difficult period we sympathize [with the people of Greece] who find themselves in a difficult situation…be sure that we have helped Greece as an Archdiocese and we will continue to do so, because we, the Greeks of Australia, do not resemble the Greeks in America. Here, we hold on more to the language, to the traditions and heritage, and the faults,” he said to some laughter,” of the homeland.
He continued by saying that Hellenism is Australia is more genuine.
The bishop then thanked God because “in this country, as the Orthodox Church and as Hellenes t to grow and prosper and to be a united community .”
Ignatios then thanked him for his “good words.”
The remarks were recorded and posted on YouTube, which can be viewed here:
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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.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.