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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 […]

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01 January 2020

Community | Atlantic Celebration Day celebrates America and Portuguese  pride – New Bedford, MA

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01 January 2020

MiratecArts | II Curta Pico Prize draws international filmmakers – Azores

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Book: ‘The wines of Portugal’ by Richard Mayson – Editor’s Note

20 December 2019

Richard Mayson first visited Portugal as a child, nearly fifty years ago. He immediately fell in love with the country, living there and revisiting it many times over the ensuing half century. During those years Portugal has changed greatly, as have its wines. The cooperatives and wine merchants of the 1970s produced patriotically Portuguese blended […]

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Posted in Azores, Featured, Food & Wine, Heritage, Madeira, Portugal, World

Tagus Press: ‘Poems in Absentia’ longlisted for the PEN America Award – Poetry and Translation

19 December 2019

Tagus Press, the publishing arm of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, is pleased to announce that George Monteiro’s 2019 translation of Poems in Absentia & Poems from The Island and the World by Pedro da Silveira has been longlisted for the 2020 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. Founded in 1996, the award […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, People

Alert: SATA Air Azores on strike December 21, 22 and 23 – Travel

17 December 2019

In a prepared statement, SATA Air Azores has confirmed that the company’s Aircraft Maintenance Technicians will be on full strike December 21, 22 and 23. The Aircraft Maintenance Technicians have been on partial strike since October 28, while negotiations have been held in an attempt to bringing the parties to an agreement. However, “In the […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Corvo, Faial, Featured, Flores, Graciosa, Organizations, People, Pico, Portugal, Santa Maria, São Jorge, São Miguel, Terceira, Travel, World

Submissions: 2020 New York Portuguese Short Film Festival – 10th Edition

16 December 2019

The Arte Institute has announced the 10th Edition of the NY Portuguese Short Film Festival (NYPSFF), scheduled for screenings in New York, in May 2020, at the Lincoln Center and Tribeca Film Center. Submissions are welcome until March 1, 2020. The first Portuguese film festival in the United States, since 2011 the NYPSFF has had […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Community, Featured, Film, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

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