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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 […]

Appointed: Attorney Robert Sherman nominated Ambassador to Portugal – Washington, DC

27 July 2013

President Barack Obama has nominated Boston attorney Robert Sherman Ambassador to Portugal. Sherman, who helped found the Boston office of mega-law firm Greenberg Traurig, has contributed with more than $2 million in donations in both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. Sherman replaces Ambassador Allan Katz nominated by President Obama in November 2009. The nomination […]

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Posted in Azores, Featured, Madeira, People, Portugal

Opinion: Crises, climate changes and calamities

25 July 2013

By Len Port, Contributor (*) Economic chaos, political scandals, social violence, revolutions and wars punctuated by natural disasters sparked by extreme weather conditions dominate the headlines across the world in the second decade of the 21st century. So what’s new? We tend to think we live in unique times, but the world has seen it […]

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Posted in Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, World

US House of Representatives prohibits military reduction at Lajes – Washington, DC

24 July 2013

The United States House of Representatives passed unanimously yesterday, Tuesday, July 23rd , an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that prohibits the US Air Force from reducing the force structure at Lajes Field in Fiscal Year 2014. Last year, the United States had informed the Portuguese government that the future of the Lajes Air […]

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

Appointed: Rui Machete new Minister of Foreign Affairs – Portugal

23 July 2013

The President of Portugal, Anibal Cavaco Silva, has appointed Rui Machete, 73, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Rui Machete, the former President of the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), is a senior leader of the ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD). He had served as Minister of Justice and Minister of Defense before being appointed Deputy Prime Minister […]

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Posted in Featured, Heritage, People, Politics, Portugal

WYD: Pope Francis presiding at the World Youth Day – Brazil

22 July 2013

Pope Francis arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to preside at the World Youth Day  [Jornada Mundial da Juventude] sponsored by the Catholic Church. The event will be held from  July 23 to July 28.  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff welcomed the Pope on arrival from his flight from Rome. More than 2 million people are […]

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Posted in Brazil, Featured, People, World

Essay: An Anatomy of Saudade – By George Monteiro

21 July 2013

An art gallery in Toronto in 2009 entitles its exhibit “Saudades for Tomorrow,” and a politician in New Bedford, Massachusetts, defines saudade as “nostalgic longing… the spirit of Portugal.”  While a London copy-editor, apologizing for his heresy in suggesting that “saudade need only pass into English when it refers to something more metaphysical, e.g. discussing […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Portugal

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