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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 […]

Community: Touro Law Center to honor Aristides de Sousa Mendes – Long Island, NY

15 October 2013

On Tuesday November 12, Touro Law Center Center will join with the Sousa Mendes Foundation and the Long Island Portuguese community to honor the memory of Aristides de Sousa Mendes during an event marking the 75th Anniversary of Kristallnacht. Aristides de Sousa Mendes, known as the “Portuguese Schindler,” was a Portuguese diplomat in France during […]

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Environment: “SOS Cagarro” program will save thousands of Cory’s Shearwaters – Azores

14 October 2013

This Tuesday, the population of the Azores will participate again in the “SOS Cagarro” initiative, a program aimed to preserving the Cory’s Shearwaters species which nests in the Azores. Launched in 1995, the “SOS Cagarro” is the largest environmental protection program in Portugal. “Cagarro” is the Portuguese name for the Cory’s Shearwaters (Calonectris diomedea) a […]

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Posted in Azores, Education, Featured, Heritage, Portugal, World

Community: Arthur Lemos – The Man and His Music – Interview

11 October 2013

By Millicent Accardi, Contributor (*) Arthur Lemos, a Portuguese-American composer, teacher and musician is a You Tube sensation! With 200 videos, the 81 year old’s most popular You Tube video, Paso Doble, has received nearly 20,000 views. All together, Lemos has composed thirty-six pieces of music including marches (Spanish, Italian, and German), choral pieces, religious […]

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KSFS: Kale Soup for the Soul to present poetry readings – East Coast

09 October 2013

Award-winning, Portuguese-American writers will travel to Providence (RI) and Dartmouth (MA) to deliver two writing workshops and present four public readings at Rhode Island College, Brown University and the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Associated with the KSFS (Kale Soup for the Soul) reading series, the group will read poems, stories and memoirs about family, food […]

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Terceira: Pyramidal structure found by amateur sailor not man-made – Azores

09 October 2013

An underwater pyramidal shaped structure identified by amateur sailor Diocleciano Silva, at a depth of 40 meters off the coast of Terceira Island, most likely ”not man-made,” according to Portuguese Navy bathymetry experts. The structure found by Silva had been previously documented by the Portuguese Navy and was known to bathymetric researchers – they said. […]

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Posted in Azores, People, Portugal, Terceira, World

Florbela: XVIII Edition of the Boston Ibero-American Film Festival – Boston College, MA

07 October 2013

The film Florbela (2012), written and directed by Vicente Alves do Ó, will represent Portugal in the XVIII Edition of the Boston Ibero-American Film Festival. The screening of Florbela will take place on October 10, at 6 pm, at Boston University’s College of Communication. In Portuguese with English subtitles, the feature is based on the […]

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