American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association

The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA) has commended the US Embassy in Athens on the launch of its year-long campaign to commemorate Greece's bicentennial entitled "USA & Greece: Celebrating 200 Years of Friendship."

The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association said it "mourned profoundly" the death of Paul Sarbanes, a Maryland Democrat who served in the US Congress for more than three decades, describing him as a "titan" of the Greek-American community.

Two elderly women from a retirement home in northern Greece who where among the 33 of the 150 residents and three staff members who had tested positive for Covid-19 died on Thursday, bringing the daily death toll to four.

The 88-year-old woman was being treated in Thessaloniki's AHEPA hospital and the 91-year-old was in Papanikolaou Hospital.

The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA) announced on Tuesday it will donate the Greek police force protective equipment valued at 25,000 euros.

The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA) has condemned racial inequality in the United States following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of police in Minneapolis last week.

In a statement, AHEPA supreme president George G. Horiates also condemned violence and destruction amid protests over the killing.

Greek American Spiros Mantzavinos is running for a statewide office in Delaware and is widely seen as the favorite.
The State Senate seat in Delaware's 7th District for which he is running as a Democrat has been labeled as one of the most flippable in the country. Registered voters for his party outnumber his opponent's by nearly two-to-one.

The 98th AHEPA Family Supreme Convention of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (Order of AHEPA) has been cancelled due to the global coronavirus pandemic, the body's President George G. Horiates announced in a statement on Wednesday.

The Olympia Group, founded by Panos Germanos, has donated medical and technological equipment valued at two million euros to the ministries of education and health, to assist in the fight against Covid-19.

The donation will be made through the Group's subsidiaries, Public- MediaMarkt and Sunlight.

The death toll from the coronavirus in Greece has risen to 128 after a 59-year-old woman died of the illness, according to reports.

The woman, aged 59, died early Friday at the AHEPA University Hospital in Thessaloniki, northern Greece.

Reports said she had a serious underlying disease.

Greek media reported two more deaths from the novel coronavirus on Thursday, a day after when the country's authorities reported there were no fatalities in the previous 24 hours.
The new death toll stands at 123, one of the lowest in Europe. The new fatalities have not been officially confirmed yet.