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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 […]

Olympics 2012: Pimenta and Silva win silver for Portugal – London, UK

08 August 2012

Fernando Pimenta, 22, and Emanuel Silva, 26, of Portugal, won the Olympic Silver Medal for cannoning at the men’s double 1,000-meter K-2. Rudolf Dombi and Roland Kokeny of Hungary took the gold.  Martin Hollstein and Andreas Ihle of Germany took the bronze. This was the first time Portugal won a medal in canoe sprint. Last week, […]

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Posted in Awards, Featured, People, Portugal, Sports, Spotlight, World

Grandes Festas: 26th Holy Ghost Festival of New England – Fall River, MA

07 August 2012

The Portuguese American community of Fall River (MA) is celebrating the 26th Holy Ghost Festival of New England, starting Thursday August 23, through Monday August 26. The event opens Saturday morning with the traditional “bodo de leite” event. The Holy Ghost parade will take place on Sunday, on South Main Street, with the participation of […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Entertainment, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, Religion, World

Nuno Júdice: One of Portugal’s greatest literary treasures – Interview

06 August 2012

By Millicent Borges Accardi The work of Portuguese writer Nuno Júdice is like a spell. A reverie.  A dark dream with quiet overtones and hidden meanings. Last summer in Lisbon, as part of the DISQUIET International Literary Program, it seemed as if the whole world had been swallowed up and silenced when Júdice softly delivered […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, Interviews, People, Portugal, TopSpotlight, World

LGBTS: First Pride Azores Festival celebrating gay and lesbian rights – Azores

06 August 2012

The first Pride Azores Festival is scheduled for August 28 to September 2, 2012, in the city of Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, in the Azores. According to Terry Costa, president of the Association LGBT Pride Azores and organizer of the event, the festival will include a march for human rights, a conference on LGBT […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Conferences, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Portugal, São Miguel, Spotlight, World

Connecting: Writing the Luso Experience at DISQUIET – Lisbon, PT

03 August 2012

By Oona Patrick, Contributor (*) The Dzanc Books/CNC DISQUIET International Literary Program, a summer program that began in 2011, finished its second two-week adventure in Lisbon, Portugal, on July 13. The program brings 60 North American and international writers to the city for workshops in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The program and its local sponsors […]

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

Book: “Travels in My Homeland” by Almeida Garrett revisited – Essays

02 August 2012

Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth, in partnership with the University Press of New England (UPNE), announced the publication of Garrett’s Travels Revisited, edited by Victor K. Mendes and Valéria M. Souza. This double-volume issue of Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies (vols. 21–22) re-examines the most celebrated work of Portuguese Romanticism, Travels in My Homeland (1846) […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Education, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal

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