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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.
Bishop Ierotheos of Nafpaktos said he was disappointed that reopening churches wasn’t yet part of a New Democracy government plan to gradually lift a lockdown aimed at preventing the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus.
He told SKAI TV there was frustration in the Church after leaders agreed to close after initially resisting being shut down and saying that letting people take Holy Communion wouldn’t spread the highly contagious virus.
“After all, what is the Church for (the government)? What is the Church, is it a union, is it a supermarket? Is it worse than a supermarket? Is it worse than a hairdresser?” he said.
“What is the Church? Isn’t it a divine organization that has a 20-Century tradition?” Ierotheos asked.
Government spokesman Stelios Petsas said that services for the public at churches would restart gradually as a request by Archbishop Ieronymos for them to reopen now would not be approved.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said there will be gradual and staggered reopenings of stores, business, services and other institutions shut on March 23 with the first phase coming May 4, with the churches not on the list yet.
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.