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Diplomacy | President António José Seguro to meet Pope Leo XIV Diplomacy | Prime Minister Luís Montenegro to address the  81st UN General Assembly Community | Nazaré and Half Moon Bay to establish sister-city partnership Community: Remembering the Portuguese victims of September 9/11 Community | Portuguese citizen detained by ICE has been deported
 

Diplomacy | President António José Seguro to meet Pope Leo XIV – Vatican

Portugal’s President, António José Seguro, arrived in Rome on Wednesday, September 23, for a two-day official visit to the Holy See, with an audience with Pope Leo XIV scheduled for Thursday, September 24, at 9:00 a.m. local time at the Vatican.  The Portuguese Presidency confirms that the official visit program also includes talks with Archbishop […]

Diplomacy | Prime Minister Luís Montenegro to address the  81st UN General Assembly – New York, NY

Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro will travel to New York from September 22 to 24 to represent Portugal at the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly. On Thursday, September 24, Montenegro is expected to deliver Portugal’s national address to the Assembly at approximately 2:15 p.m. New York time. The theme for this year’s […]

Community | Nazaré and Half Moon Bay to establish sister-city partnership – California

The Municipality of Nazaré, Portugal, and the City of Half Moon Bay, California, are moving forward with a new sister-city partnership designed to strengthen ties between two coastal communities united by the sea, maritime traditions, tourism, Portuguese heritage and an international reputation for big-wave surfing. On July 21, 2026, the Half Moon Bay City Council […]

Community: Remembering the Portuguese victims of September 9/11 – New York, NY

As the United States marks the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the Portuguese-American community joins the nation in remembering the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives, including five Portuguese citizens and four Portuguese descendants known to have been killed at the World Trade Center in New York City. The nine […]

Community | Portuguese citizen detained by ICE has been deported – Lisbon, Portugal

Hugo Freitas de Sousa, 39, a native of Terceira Island in the Azores, has returned to Lisbon, Portugal, after spending approximately six weeks in U.S. immigration detention in Tacoma, Washington state.  Sousa, who had lived in the United States for about 35 years, emigrated with his parents as a child and held permanent-resident status through […]

Audrey Azoulay: Azores stand out for its nature and cultural heritage – UNESCO

25 August 2021

The UNESCO Director-General, Audrey Azoulay, was on a private visit to the Azores, where she toured places classified by UNESCO on São Miguel, Flores and Pico, namely the Gruta do Carvão, the Flores UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, the wine-growing landscape and the Gruta das Torres on Pico. The Central Zone of the Town of Angra do […]

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Posted in Azores, Featured, Flores, Heritage, People, Pico, São Miguel, Terceira, Travel, World

Honor: Lara Gularte named Poet Laureate – El Dorado County, CA

25 August 2021

Portuguese American Lara Gulart named Poet Laureate 2021-2023, an honor bestowed on a noted local poet to honor his or her body of work and to celebrate poetry as an art form. El Dorado County, officially the County of El Dorado, is a county in the state of California. With roots in the Azores, with […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Azores, Books, Community, Faial, Featured, Flores, Interviews, People, Pico

Book: ‘Between the Sea and Sky’ by Donna M. Binkiewicz – Editor’s Note

24 August 2021

Spurred on by a family tragedy, Margarida takes a leap of faith with her children to sail from the Azores and begin a new life in Upcountry Maui. The family becomes part of a wave of immigrants who labor in Hawaii’s sugar plantations in the 1880s. Witness to the forces of business expansion and political […]

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Posted in Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, People

Book: ‘The First World Empire: Portugal, War and Military Revolution’ – Editor’s Note

22 August 2021

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the early modern military history of Portugal and its possessions in Africa, the Americas, and Asia from the perspective of the military revolution historiographical debate. The existence of a military revolution in the early modern period has been much debated in international historiography, and this volume fills a […]

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Posted in Angola, Books, Brazil, Cape Verde, Damão, Diu, East Timor, Featured, Goa, Guiné-Bissau, Heritage, Macau, Mozambique, People, Portugal, São Tomé and Prince, World

Alagoas Brancas: Fight rages on saving an Algarve wetland – by Len Port

20 August 2021

By Len Port Uncertainty as to when an appeal court in Lisbon will make a decision on an Algarve municipal council’s refusal to order a developer to make an environmental impact study is exacerbating frustrations among campaigners determined to save the wetland site known as Alagoas Brancas. The campaigners are asking supporters for donations to […]

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Posted in Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal

Award: ‘Tágides Prize’ launched by the ‘All4Integrity’ initiative – Portugal

17 August 2021

Based in New York city the ‘All4Integrity’ initiative was launched with the goal of establishing a National Integrity System in Portugal. Under the motto “Free my country from corruption” the aim is to “Identify, recognize, celebrate, and reward the work carried out by individuals, organizations and institutions, in the prevention and fight against corruption in […]

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Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal