Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has praised the government’s record in boosting Greece’s hard as well as soft power.
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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Archbishop Elpidophoros of America will meet at the United Nations headquarters in New York at 8 p.m. (Greek time) Friday, Kathimerini understands.
Greek government spokesman Yiannis Oikonomou on Friday did not rule out a meeting eventually between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who is visiting New York for the United Nations General Assembly, and Archbishop Elpidophoros of America.
Archbishop of America Elpidophoros has expressed his grief over the pain caused to diaspora Greeks by his presence at an official event organized by Turkey and attended by the Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar, in New York.
A tour by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Nicholas at Ground Zero in New York, due to take place on Friday, has been canceled.
![The head of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs Ali Erbas prays at the opening ceremony of the Turkish House, as Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan looks on, in New York, on Monday. [Turkish Presidential Press Office/Reuters]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/turkish_house_ny_-_reuters-320x200.jpg)
HALC and PSEKA issued a statement on Wednesday expressing their “disappointment” with the response from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America to the inauguration by Turkish President Recep Tayyip of the Turkevi Center.
The “Greece 2021” Committee and the US embassy in Athens launched on Tuesday the Hellenic Initiative’s online mentorship project, “Connect the Dots.”
The Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) has welcomed planned talks between Australia and Greece on a double tax agreement (DTA) between the two countries.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will meet with Archbishop of America Elpidophoros in New York on Friday, government sources say.
A Greek restaurant owner in Bremerhaven, Germany is so appreciative of Angela Merkel that he ordered a life-size wax figure of the outgoing German chancellor, which he will display in his home.
![The Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox National Shrine is illuminated for the first time, late Friday, at the World Trade Center in New York, marking a milestone in the reconstruction of the only house of worship to be destroyed on 9/11. The lighting comes from within panels of marble, quarried from the same vein used for the ancient Greek Parthenon. The church is designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, with its dome, windows and iconography inspired by historic former Byzantine churches, including the world-renowned Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the attacks of Sept 11, 2001. [Mark Lennihan/AP]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/nicholas_AP-320x200.jpg)
A ceremonial lighting and memorial service were held Friday at a church being built to replace one that was destroyed in the attacks on 9/11.
![Workers install marble on the exterior of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine, which is the only house of worship on ground zero, on Thursday, in New York. Through an innovative process, interior lights are being designed to illuminate thin panels of marble mined from the same Pentelic vein in Greece that sourced the Parthenon, the ancient temple in Athens. The shrine will have a ceremonial lighting on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Sept 11, 2001 attacks, while the interior is slated for completion next year. [Jessie Wardarski/AP]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/st_nicholas_-_ap-320x200.jpg)
The domed sanctuary rising in Lower Manhattan, where workers are busy installing translucent Greek marble in time for a ceremonial lighting on September 10, bears little resemblance to the modest parish church that John Katsimatides had discovered years ago.
Before being unveiled in November and opened to the public in spring or early summer next year, the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Nicholas in New York will be hosting a service for the first time in 20 years to commemorate the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
Ellinopoula, the brainchild of Greek-American economist Petros Sakkis, is a web-based platform designed to teach Greek to children of the Greek diaspora in a fun and interactive manner.
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Here is something you don’t hear every day: “I dealt with Greek bureaucracy, and it was not bad at all!” Here is my story:
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America has launched a donation campaign to support the victims of the massive wildfires in Greece.
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PSEKA-International Coordinating Committee-Justice for Cyprus is organizing the 36th Annual Cyprus and Hellenic Leadership Conference on “Strengthening US-Cyprus relations” on July 20 to mark the 47th anniversary of Turkey’s invasion and continued occupation of the northern part of the island.
Seeking to strengthen Greece’s position in a rapidly changing world and its ability to deal with the significant challenges that lie ahead, dozens of Greeks at home and abroad have rallied together to establish an organization of global Hellenic networks.
US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez and Senators Chris Van Hollen and Marco Rubio, both members of the Committee, were joined on Wednesday by 11 of their Senate colleagues in condemning Turkey’s continuing efforts to open the coastline of Varosha, Cyprus.
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC) expressed their support on Friday for the letter Senators Bob Menendez and Chris Van Hollen are preparing to send to US President Joe Biden asking him to speak out against Turkey’s attempts to lay claim to Varosha in occupied Cyprus.
Ten Greek American and Cypriot American organizations have sent a letter to US President Joe Biden ahead of the anniversary of Turkey’s invasion of the Mediterranean island to express their concern over the “new and renewed existential threats” posed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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US Senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) welcomed the approval of their bipartisan bill to bolster the United States’ defense partnership with Greece, the US-Greece Defense and Interparliamentary Partnership Act of 2021, by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
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