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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 – Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou attended the formal changing of the guard weekly ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Syntagma Square on Sunday, prior to attending a musical performance at the Presidential Mansion gardens.
The Tomb is guarded on a 24-hour basis by the presidential guard of Evzones, who rotate every hour. A formal ceremony to change the guard is held every Sunday morning at 11:00.
Sakellaropoulou chatted with bystanders and observed the ceremony from the left-hand side of the Monument plaza below the Parliament building.
The Greek president then paid an informal visit at a Christmas carol concert by the Hellenic Navy Band in the Presidential Mansion gardens, which are open to the public on Sundays free of charge. She chatted and posed for photos with visitors, who were also treated to Christmas sweets.
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.