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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 – Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday took part in the European People’s Party summit meeting via video conference.
Government sources said that Mitsotakis was the recipient of comments praising the way the Greek goverment has handled the pandemic.
Mitsotakis referring to the efforts underway to deal with the repercussions of the pandemic, and asked the citizens of the northern EU countries to be encouraged to visit the south in regions that are safe. In this context, he proposed the next EPP meeting be held in Athens in the summer. All accepted the proposal, underlining that Greece is a safe destination.
In his address Mitsotakis, among others, pointed out the need for new financing tools and common interventions that will guarantee the cohesion and the solidarity of the EU member-states, in order to address the economic repercussions of the crisis.
He also criticised Hungrarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s decisions, noting that “issues of democracy and state operation are fundamental for Europe,” and he reminded the meeting of the letter he recently signed with other heads of state and government asking for Orban’s expulsion from the EPP.
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.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
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.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.