Portugal

Al'Fado to play Jewish-Portuguese songs at Jewish Music Days Fest

Tamir is coming over together with the Portugal-based Israeli-Portuguese Al’Fado band, predominantly to perform Ladino material.

13/05/2023

Porto Jewish Community inaugurated new cemetery five centuries after expulsion

The event was presided over by rabbis from Portugal, Israel, the US and the UK.

01/05/2023

Porto Jews push to posthumously reinstate 'Portuguese Dreyfus' into army

Arthur Carlos Barros Basto was a Portuguese Army officer who was declared “immoral” in June 1937 for helping returning descendants of Jews to become circumcised.

27/02/2023
Storm clouds pass over a Roman Catholic church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. August 14, 2018

Widespread child abuse by Catholic Church members in Portugal is tip of iceberg - report

77% of the perpetrators were priests and most of the victims were boys.

By REUTERS
13/02/2023
Storm clouds pass over a Roman Catholic church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. August 14, 2018

Widespread child abuse by Catholic Church members in Portugal is tip of iceberg - report

77% of the perpetrators were priests and most of the victims were boys.

By REUTERS
13/02/2023

Porto Jewish community asks Europe to probe antisemitism in Portugal

Community council member for legal affairs, David Garrett, added in a press release on behalf of the Porto Jewish community that the European Commission investigation is necessary.

09/02/2023

Portugal to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine, PM says

Portugal have not said how many tanks they will be sending.

By REUTERS
04/02/2023

1,000 schoolchildren visit Porto Holocaust Museum, hear testimonies of survivors

The children, aged 10-16, were able to listen to testimonies from survivors and their descendants.

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