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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 — "This year's Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) marks a symbolic and at the same time substantial return to a full life, economically, socially, in educational and more broadly in culture," government spokesperson Yiannis Oikonomou said on Thursday during a press briefing.
"Nineteen months after the start of the pandemic and despite the virus persisting, we are able to take a step forward. We are able to do it because with planning and prudent choices we have kept the country healthy, economically and socially," he added.
"With policies to strengthen the national health system and support the real economy. Now with policies that hinge on the national health system, vaccination and a better state we can further contain the pandemic and say yes to life. The next period will not be without difficulties. The pandemic continues to cause disruption and the disruption is causing concern among the people," he noted.
"At the TIF, the prime minister will address these concerns, the problems but also the expectations of society," Oikonomou underlined.
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.
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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".