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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 – Twelve unaccompanied refugee children from Syria and Afghanistan departed from Athens International Airport on Wednesday morning, to travel to Luxembourg on an Aegean Airlines flight.
Alternate Migration Minister Giorgos Koumoutsakos, the Ambassador of Luxembourg to Greece Paul Steinmetz and the special secretary for unaccompanied children Irini Agapidaki were at the airport to say goodbye.
The Ambassador of Luxembourg told the children that they will stay in a small village in the north of the country, a village with many tourists in a very quiet and beautiful part of the country. “The good thing about Luxembourg is that it is a small country and it’s quite easy,” Steinmetz said, and told them that “it is too early to find a job but a job will not be a problem for them but “first you must go to school and learn French or German,” he told them, adding that half of the population are foreign nationals so they will not feel like a minority.
In statements to the press, Koumoutsakos underlined that the childrens’ relocation to Luxembourg “is the beginning of an effort, an initiative, a European plan that concerns a total of 1,600 unaccompanied minors who will move from Greece to other EU countries. “It was a start, an act of real solidarity from the friendly country of Luxembourg, which accepted 12 children at a time when the country’s population is 60,000, so it is an example for other bigger, stronger and more populated countries’.”
The Ambassador of Luxembourg said that “it was only the beginning, a positive start and a part of the solution. There are 5,000 unaccompanied children in Greece. We felt we could not wait forthe EU to decide on its programme so in March we made the decision and the Foreign Minister of Luxembourg proposed that every country to accept approximately 10 children per 500,000 residents and this would solve the problem. Luxembourg provided a good example and took 12 children.”
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".