06 March 2019
Portugal has declared March 7, a day of mourning to denounce domestic violence against women. Government buildings would fly flags at half-mast to mark the date. According to a statement by the Minister of the Presidency Mariana Vieira da Silva, in the past 15 years 500 women have died in Portugal victims of domestic violence. […]
31 January 2019
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 […]
Posted in Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, Religion, World
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 […]
Posted in Community, Education, Featured, Organizations, Scholarships
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 […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, Portugal, World
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 […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, Travel
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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