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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.
NEW YORK – His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America issued an encyclical on the occasion of the Fourth of July to the entire pleroma of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. The entire encyclical has a follows:
“Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
As your Archbishop of America, it is truly a joy to celebrate with you the Fourth of July, the day when all Americans and indeed the whole world commemorate our Independence Day. Even though this Declaration was made on July 4, 1776 in Philadelphia, the fight for liberty commenced much earlier, on April 19, 1775, in Lexington and Concord, where at the Old North Bridge, as the poet Ralph Waldo Emerson later sang:
‘By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.”
Our legacy of that victory, and of the sacrifice of every generation of Americans who, in President Abraham Lincoln’s immortal words at Gettysburg, “gave the last full measure of devotion,” is not to take bridges, but to build bridges.
We have to be honest about the divisions in our Nation and how polarized our society feels, especially in the continuing aftermath of the pandemic and the social unrest over basic inequities in our land. Building bridges of dialogue, of mutual respect, of seeking shared understanding – these are the best of America and honor the heroes who have kept America “the land of the free and home of the brave.” The strength of America is our diversity, our plurality, for ‘E Pluribus Unum’ – out of many, we are one!
My beloved Christians, as we celebrate the greatness of our Nation on the Fourth of July, let us remember how we attained the exceptional freedoms we all enjoy, and work to ensure these freedoms are true for every American. Let us engage one another with vigor and commitment, ‘speaking the truth in love’ (Ephesians 4:15) on every vital issue, even as we hold in dear remembrance those who made the ultimate sacrifice for God and country.
With paternal love in our Lord Jesus Christ,
†ELPIDOPHOROS
Archbishop of America.”
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".