16 August 2022
Portugal has been under waves of extreme heat and severe drought, which continues to cause wildfires outbreaks throughout the country. Starting August 6, intense fires have spread throughout Serra da Estrela, central Portugal, including the municipalities of Guarda, Manteigas and Covilhã. On Tuesday, the smoke from the huge wildfires in Serra da Estrela enveloped skyscrapers […]
12 August 2022
Thousands of pilgrims are expected this weekend at the Sanctuary of Fátima, Portugal, to participate in the National Pilgrimage of Migrant and Refugees presided over by Bishop Edgar Cunha of Fall River, Massachusetts. The pilgrimage, which is 60 years old, is an initiative of the Portuguese Catholic Work for Migration, an organism of the Portuguese […]
Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
11 August 2022
The heart of D. Pedro I (1798-1834), the first emperor of Brazil, will be temporarily transferred from Portugal to Brazil, on August 21, as part of the bicentennial commemorations of the country’s independence. According to the official page of Porto City Hall, the organ, preserved in formaldehyde inside an urn, is currently on public display, […]
Posted in Brazil, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, World
10 August 2022
The unions, representing the aviation workers of airport concession managers ANA/VINCI, have reached an agreement on Wednesday to call off the shrike scheduled for 19, 20 and 21 of August. “After several hours of negotiations, at a meeting that began yesterday [Tuesday] at the premises of DGERT [Directorate-General for Employment and Labor Relations] and ended […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Madeira, Organizations, People, Portugal, Travel, World
07 August 2022
Former Portugal prime minister, now United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, came out with another of his extraordinary dire statements last week. Referring to the war in Ukraine and Western tensions with China, Korea and Iran, he said that humanity was “just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation.” Here are some of his other most notable remarks […]
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04 August 2022
The stories of Damião de Góis and Luís de Camões capture the extraordinary wonders that awaited Europeans on their arrival in India and China, the challenges these marvels presented to longstanding beliefs, and the vast conspiracy to silence the questions these posed about the nature of history and of human life. A History of Water follows […]
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