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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 […]

Portugal/UK: Let the battle of the books begin!
– by Len Port

30 January 2014

Authorities in Britain are being tight-lipped at the outset of what could become a prolonged historical wrangle involving the world’s two oldest allies. A unique collection of books plundered during the darkest days of the centuries-old treaty between Portugal and Britain has been cosseted in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford for more […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Portugal

Portugal: Syrian chemical arsenal to be transshipped via the Azores – Washington, DC

29 January 2014

Portugal will allow the United States to use a port in the Azores for the transshipping of chemical materials from Syria, as an option, said the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rui Machete, in Washington, Wednesday. In a statement at the end of a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, he said that […]

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Posted in Azores, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, Terceira, World

LGBT: Gay community fighting to keep adoption rights – Portugal

29 January 2014

The Portuguese gay community is protesting against the approval by Parliament of a referendum to annul the right of same sex couples to adopt their partners’ children. The referendum, approved on January 17, passed with a narrow majority from the center-right government coalition of Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho. Currently in Portugal same sex married […]

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Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World

Essay: The Barcelos Cock and The Waste Land
– by George Monteiro

28 January 2014

In “What the Thunder Said,” the fifth and final section of The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot’s epochal poem of 1922, there is a mysterious and intriguing (albeit brief) scene in which moonlight shines over a deserted mountain chapel where “only a cock” stands “on the rooftree,” crowing “co co rico co co rico.” Lightning […]

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Posted in Books, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, Travel

Portugal: Rui Machete to meet John Kerry for talks over Lajes – Washington,DC

28 January 2014

The Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs Rui Machete will meet Wednesday, in Washington, US Secretary of State John Kerry to discuss bilateral “matters of common interest’ concerning Portugal and the United States. Rui Machete and John Kerry “will review bilateral and multilateral issues regarding the relationship between Portugal and the United States,” and “issues of […]

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

Travel: Lisbon best European city for hosting congresses – Portugal

28 January 2014

Lisbon has been voted the number one city for hosting the best congresses by delegates participating in a recent survey undertaken by the Centre for International Business Tourism in Lisbon. The city was voted ahead of London, Paris, Madrid, Munich and Milan, with 45.9 per cent of respondents ranking the probability of return as “very […]

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Posted in Awards, Conferences, Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, Travel, World

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