The Roman Catholic Church has announced that Pope Francis will preside to the 2022 World Youth Day to be held in Lisbon, Portugal. The public pronouncement was made at the closure of the World Youth Day held in Panama last week. The World Youth Day, launched by Pope John Paul II, draws hundreds of thousands […]
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Pope Francis: Lisbon hosting World Youth Day 2022 – Portugal
Posted on 31 January 2019.
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Scholarships: The Institute for Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies – Rhode Island College
Posted on 27 January 2019.
The John A. and Mary V. Lima Memorial Scholarship Fund in Portuguese Studies of the Institute for Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies (IPLWS) at Rhode Island College (RIC) will award three scholarships in the amount of $2,000 each, upon satisfactory completion of the required course(s) in the spring semester of 2019, to students active in […]
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Faro: Recovering 16th century book collection stolen by British military – Oxford University
Posted on 23 January 2019.
By Len Port Renewed efforts are being made to recover the unique collection of books plundered from Faro by a British military force more than 400 years ago and kept ever since at the University of Oxford. The Faro 1540 Association is at the heart of a request for the return of what it regards […]
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UPDATE: Thousands to continue protesting and striking into the new year – Portugal
Posted on 14 January 2019.
Thousands of Portuguese workers continue striking into the new year, protesting low wages and poor working conditions. The strike actions are the continuation of a wave of vindications during 2018, when over 600 stoppages were recorded doubling the work actions in 2017. According to Jornal Económico, the “increasing social unrest” that marked 2018 will continue […]
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Civil unrest: Workers calling dozens of strikes over the holidays – Portugal
Posted on 15 December 2018.
Portugal is facing a wave of civil unrest over the holidays with about 50 strike warnings being issued by workers, most of them civil workers, demanding higher wages and better working conditions. Protests and strike actions are being organized mostly on social media, outside the control of workers’ unions, which could result in social turmoil […]
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Women, Magic and Water: Interview with Amy Sayre Baptista
Posted on 05 December 2018.
By Millicent Borges Accardi With heritage in Madeira, the writer Amy Sayre Baptista’s work has appeared in The Best Small Fictions (2017), Ninth Letter, The Butter, Alaska Quarterly Review, and other journals. Her flash fiction chapbook “Primitivity,” winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition, spring 2017 is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press this fall. She has […]
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