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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 […]

Archaeology: Prehistoric rock art found in caves on Terceira Island – Azores

27 August 2012

By Carolina Matos, Editor The president of the Portuguese Association of Archaeological Research (APIA), Nuno Ribeiro, revealed Monday having found rock art on the island of Terceira, supporting his believe that human occupation of the Azores predates the arrival of the Portuguese by many thousands of years, Lusa reported. “We have found a rock art […]

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Posted in Azores, Corvo, Education, Faial, Featured, Flores, Graciosa, Heritage, Interviews, Organizations, People, Pico, Portugal, Santa Maria, São Jorge, São Miguel, Spotlight, Terceira

Book: “Ana de Castro Osório” by Célia Cordeiro – Review

26 August 2012

By Carolina Matos, Editor (*) Célia Carmen Cordeiro, a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas-Austin, is the author of “Ana de Castro Osório e a Mulher Republicana Portuguesa” a book based on her Master’s dissertation (2011) at the University of Minnesota. At the turn of the 20th Century, Ana de Castro Osório (1872-1935) was […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Books, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, São Miguel

BOOK: “A School for Fishermen” by Carlo Matos – Review

23 August 2012

By Jason Peters, Contributor (*)  Three separate strands of thought to begin with. First, a fishing net endlessly connects itself to itself, neither beginning nor ending. Second, astronomers believe dark matter resembles a neural network spanning the universe, stars traveling its paths like chemicals in a giant web. Finally, in Fernando Pessoa’s poem Tobacco Shop, […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, World

Symposium: Portuguese Language Teaching in the USA – Harvard University

23 August 2012

Harvard University, through the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures,  is hosting a symposium dedicated to the topic “Portuguese Language Teaching in the United States: Theory, Practice and Communities.” The event will take place from 9:00am to 4:00pm, August 25, at the Boylston Hall, Cambridge (MA). Fausto Martin Sanctis, from the Regional Tribunal of São […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Brazil, Community, Education, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, Scholarships, World

Book: “Sopas” the Feast of the Holy Ghost by Lewis White – Review

22 August 2012

By Carolina Matos, Editor (*) Lewis A. White, 66, the author of Sopas: A brief History of Portuguese Islanders, the Cape Cod Town of Falmouth, and the Feast of the Holy Ghost (2012) , is a native of Falmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. A fourth generation descendant of Azorean immigrants, he still can trace his roots back […]

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Posted in Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, People, Pico, São Miguel

Gordon: Waiting for the storm in the dark of the night – Azores

20 August 2012

By Sarah Bishop-Valentine, Contributor (*) Waiting is one of the least considered events concerning a hurricane. In the dark of night in the early hours of Monday morning, Hurricane Gordon tore through the islands of São Miguel and Santa Maria, in the Azores, in a few short hours. After a day of intensive preparations on […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, People, Portugal, Santa Maria, São Miguel, Spotlight

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