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CIL decries “deafening silence” around reform of Sephardic nationality law

The Jewish Community of Lisbon (CIL) has criticised the Portuguese Ministry of Justice of "deafening silence" regarding reform of the Portuguese Nationality Regulation concerning the descendants of Sephardic Jews.

Portugal has granted Portuguese citizenship to 56,685 descendants of Sephardic Jews

Portugal has granted citizenship to 56,685 descendants of Sephardic Jews over the last seven years, according to data provided by the Ministry of Justice.

Portugal honors envoy who saved thousands from Nazis with National Pantheon tomb

Portugal paid official tribute to Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese diplomat who during World War II helped save thousands of people from Nazi persecution, by placing a tomb with his name in the country’s National Pantheon.

Portuguese city marking routes taken by Jews fleeing Inquisition

A town in Portugal will be the sponsor of a new initiative to mark the routes taken by 15th century Spanish and Portuguese Jews after they were expelled from those kingdoms.

Stamps celebrate the lives of Portuguese who saved Jews during the Holocaust

Consul Aristides de Sousa Mendes is among five Righteous among the Nations honoured in a series of commemorative stamps by the Portuguese post.

New Portuguese Holocaust museum receives 10,000 visitors in first month

A new Holocaust museum in Porto, Portugal, has received more than 10,000 visitors in the month following their opening, averaging at 300 visitors per day, from across Portugal and Spain.

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