Portuguese American Journal

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Terceira | Scientists monitor ongoing seismic volcanic crises FLAD | Portuguese language has become an economic advantage study shows Maria João Pires: Acclaimed piano virtuoso announces the end of her career  Award | Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida wins the Fernando Namora Literary Prize  Citizenship
 

Terceira | Scientists monitor ongoing seismic volcanic crises – Azores

Terceira Island remains under heightened scientific monitoring as the seismo-volcanic crisis that began in June 2022 continues, centered around the Santa Bárbara volcanic complex on the island’s western flank.  The Azores Seismo-Volcanic Information and Monitoring Center (CIVISA) currently maintains Alert Level V3 (reactivated volcanic system) for Santa Bárbara, reflecting persistent microseismic activity consistent with magma […]

FLAD | Portuguese language has become an economic advantage study shows – Portugal

A new study released by the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) finds that speaking Portuguese corresponds to an average 20% salary bonus for Portuguese-American workers in the United States. The report, developed for FLAD by a research group led by Alda Botelho Azevedo of the Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS), Universidade de Lisboa, underscores the growing […]

Maria João Pires: Acclaimed piano virtuoso announces the end of her career – Portugal

Maria João Pires, one of the world’s most acclaimed pianists and a central figure in Portuguese and European classical music, has formally announced that she has ended her career as a performer. The declaration was made during the award acceptance ceremony for the Helena Vaz da Silva European Award, held on November 1 at the […]

Award | Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida wins the Fernando Namora Literary Prize  – Portugal 

Lusophone writer Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, 43, has been distinguished with the Prémio Literário Fernando Namora, one of Portugal’s most prestigious awards for fiction, for her novel Livro da Doença. The prize recognizes outstanding works of narrative prose published in Portuguese during the previous year. Almeida’s win marks a significant moment in contemporary Lusophone literature, […]

Citizenship – Portuguese Parliament approves new nationality law – Portugal

Portugal’s Parliament [Assembleia da República] approved yesterday a sweeping reform of Portugal’s Lei da Nacionalidade [Citizenship Law], marking one of the most significant shifts in the country’s citizenship framework in more than a decade. As an organic law, the reform now moves to the desk of the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. […]

Portugal: Ukrainian immigrants condemn Putin’s rule of force – By Len Port

09 March 2014

By Len Port, Contributor(*) Ukrainians living in Portugal say they want peace, democracy and the rule of law in their homeland. They condemn Russia’s President Putin for ‘interfering’ in the current crisis there. “Ukraine is opposed to the rule of force, intimidation and provocations from President Putin’s side,” Pavlo Sadokha, president of the Association of […]

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EU: Durão Barroso not serving third mandate as European Commission President – Dublin, Ireland

07 March 2014

The European People’s Party, meeting in Dublin, Ireland, Friday, has chosen former Luxembourg’s Prime Minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, 59, to succeed José Manuel Durão Barroso as European Commission president. Barroso, a former Prime Minister of Portugal (2002 – 2004) will be leaving the office of European Commission President in October, after having served two full terms. […]

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Lourinhã: New species of 150 million years old dinosaur discovered – Portugal

06 March 2014

Two paleontologists in Portugal, Christophe Hendrickx and Octávio Mateus, from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, have identified a new species of carnivorous dinosaur from 150 million years ago. In a joint study, the two scientists concluded that the fossils of a dinosaur preserved in the Lourinhã Museum, in Portugal, which were thought to belong to the Torvosaurus […]

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Book: ‘Being the Nação in the Eternal City’ – Editor’s Note

05 March 2014

‘Being the Nação in the Eternal City’, a new book by James William Nelson Novoa, explores in a set of case studies focusing on seven carefully chosen figures, the presence of Portuguese individuals of Jewish origin in Rome after the initial creation of a tribunal of the Portuguese Inquisition in 1531. The book delves into […]

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Community: José de Almeida Mello guest speaker at Temple Beth El – Fall River, MA

04 March 2014

The Azorean-Jewish Heritage Foundation and Temple Beth El of Fall River (MA) are sponsoring a conference by historian José de Almeida Mello, coordinator of the Sahar Hassamain Synagogue restoration project in Ponta Delgada, Azores. Mello, who is the chief librarian of the Ponta Delgada Municipal Library, was invited in 2003, by the Israeli Community of […]

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Golden Visa: Portugal controversial scheme set to soar – By Len Port

01 March 2014

By Len Port, Contributor(*) Portugal’s burgeoning ‘Golden Visa’ program could see a huge upsurge in applications, particularly from wealthy Chinese, as a result of the recent scrapping of a controversial investor scheme in Canada. News of this comes as new measures are about to be introduced to stop alleged abuse of the program from within […]

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