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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.
ATHENS – With pockets of defiance remaining in the clergy against COVID-19 health measures rapidly being eased, the Church of Greece's Holy Synod chastised two Bishops who ignored the rules during the Easter holidays.
The Holy Synod said that it had met twice in two days to discuss the actions of the rebel clerics and how they could be disciplined after “deliberate diversions from the Synod’s unanimous decisions were observed.”
The Synod added that “with great sadness” it will be sending letters of reprimand to the Metropolitan Bishops of Kythira Seraphim and Aetolia-Akarnania Kosmas, said Kathimerini.
They will face no real penalties beyond being scolded although a statement against Seraphim was more scalding, saying that he “insists on ignoring the crucial nature” of the Synod’s decisions, without facing any restrictions.
Defiance of the health measures isn't limited to the church, as some teachers and many students aren't wearing masks and there are questions over whether they are presenting accurate results of self-tests required to be in classes.
A high school teacher in Thessaloniki was arrested after a lawsuit filed against him by the school principal, for appearing in class without having previously taken a self-test and refusing to leave the premises.
The incident occurred at a school in the area of Thermi. The 50-year-old teacher was arrested and a case was filed against him for disrupting the operation of a public service, the paper said, but he was released.
It's difficult to impossible for even principals to have any real authority over teachers although the New Democracy government warned that teachers who don't obey would be reprimanded, lose pay or be fired with no report anyone has so far 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.
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.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S.
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".