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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: MAPS Announces New Board Officers – Cambridge, MA

25 November 2022

The Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS) Board of Directors elected a new slate of officers for the 2022-2024 term at its monthly meeting on November 22. António Massa Viana, Esq., of Sudbury, founder and Managing Attorney at Massa Viana Law, was elected as the health and social service organization’s new Board President. He takes […]

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Travel Alert: TAP Air Portugal refunds millions to affected travelers – Washington, DC

23 November 2022

The United States Department of Transportation (DOT) mandated that TAP Air Portugal, and five other airlines, pay millions in fines and refunds due to delays and cancellations resulting from the onset of the Covid’19 pandemic. Accordingly, DOT has issued a USD$1.1 million fine to TAP Air Portugal for delaying refunding more than USD$123 million to […]

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Posted in Community, Featured, Organizations, Portugal, Travel, World

Community: Harmonia Mosteirense Band sharing stage with the Extreme – Hudson, MA

21 November 2022

Portuguese American musician, Nuno Bettencourt, is organizing a joint concert with the Boston based Extreme rock band and the Azores based Harmonia Mosteirense Brass Band, to take place throughout the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in the town of Hudson, (MA), on November 26, and in the city of Fall River (MA) on November 27.  The concert, […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Community, Entertainment, Featured, Heritage, Music, Organizations, People, São Miguel, Terceira, World

Opinion | Portugal’s population on the decline – By Len Port

20 November 2022

The global population, according to the United Nations, reached 8 billion and is still rising, while Portugal’s population was said to have been 10,126,454 and falling. United Nations statistics show that in 1950 the global population was only 2.6 billion. In 2011 it had risen to 7 billion. It is predicted to reach 9.7 billion […]

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Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Portugal

Book |The Incandescent Threads| by Richard Zimler – Editor’s Note

07 November 2022

From the acclaimed author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon and The Warsaw Anagrams comes an unforgettable, deeply moving ode to solidarity, heroism, and the kind of love capable of overcoming humanity’s greatest horror. The latest novel in the Sephardic Cycle, a group of independent works that explore the lives of different branches and generations of a Portuguese-Jewish family, […]

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

Opinion| Will Brazil lead the fight against global warming?  – By Len Port

07 November 2022

Brazilians in Portugal, the largest expatriate population here, may still have mixed feelings about the narrow victory in the presidential election back home, but Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa and most of the delegates now in Egypt for the United Nations COP 27 climate summit are pleased at the outcome. President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da […]

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