“Portuguese teachers, railway workers, police officers and garbage collectors are planning protests and strikes during a visit by Pope Francis next month in an effort to force the government to raise wages and improve their working conditions,” Reuters writes.
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“’It’s very hard to talk about these things in Portugal,’ a country where 80% of people say they are Catholic, said Alexandra, who is now a mother and works as
“There is an approximate (number of accused priests) and it will clearly be more than 100,” child psychiatrist Pedro Strecht, who headed the commission, told SIC television, according to Reuters.
“The visit from 2 – 6 August is longer than originally expected and covers almost the entire week of the big Catholic rally that St. John Paul II inaugurated to
“Last week, [48-year-old Rita Moreira] and others sleeping rough on the Almirante Reis Avenue, one of the longest and busiest in Lisbon, were told they had until Wednesday, July 12,
“Lisbon’s mayor has been sharply criticized on Portuguese social media after it was revealed his office would spend over 5 million euros ($5.4 million) to build an altar for Pope
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