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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 – Over the objections of most rival parties, Greece’s Parliament approved a 160-million euro ($180.1 million) donation from the Stavros Niarchos Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) to build a university pediatric hospital in Thessaloniki.
The contribution was supported by the ruling New Democracy Conservatives and the center-left Movement for Change (KINAL) but voted against by the major opposition SYRIZA, the KKE Communists, the Greek Solution and MeRA parties.
The hospital, which will operate as a legal entity under private law, will have 243 beds, including 33 Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and 46 emergency room/one-day hospitalization beds and is due to open at the end of 2025.
The SNF will pay for cost of the studies, construction, as well as the medical and other equipment, and will undertake the free training of the medical staff in the use of the medical equipment.
The Greek state will provide the land and the staff, said Kathimerini, as SNF keeps up its long line of donations for Greece after building a 758-million euro ($860 million) cultural center on Athens’ coast that has become one the most popular destinations in the country.
The hospital will feature a Mental Health Center for Children and Adolescents with 20 beds and accommodate university research laboratories, amphitheaters and teaching spaces. Pediatric and pediatric surgery clinics that already operate in various hospitals in Thessaloniki will be transferred to the new facility.
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.