«Folha de Domingo», the only centenary newspaper in the Algarve, is one of the 31 publications with at least a century, published throughout the country, which will be honored by the President of the Republic, in a ceremony to be held on the 25th of April.
The initiative to recognize the centenary Portuguese Press as Intangible Cultural Heritage came from the Portuguese Press Association (API), the institution representing the Portuguese Press, and immediately deserved the adhesion and support of the President of the Republic.
Thus, on the day that celebrates 43 years of Democracy, the President of the Republic will receive, at the Palace of Belém, representatives of API and of the 31 centenary periodicals, to express their recognition for such a long activity.
“The date for this recognition was chosen for its symbolism, since the Carnation Revolution, in 1974, allowed the Portuguese to return to the rights, guarantees and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of the press”, stresses API.
“Given its role as a counter-power, the Free Press has always been fought by totalitarian regimes, whatever the respective ideological matrix and geographic location,” adds the association.
Hence, «managing to maintain the publication for over a hundred years, overcoming various crises, witnessing wars and catastrophes, facing dictatorships and repressions of various kinds, is an exemplary demonstration of persistence, courage and belief in the values of freedom of information and on the importance of the Press».
An importance, moreover, that is even recognized by the UN (United Nations), whose General Assembly instituted, in 1993, the World Press Freedom Day, to be celebrated on May 3 of each year.
API also understands that «press freedom, through the independence and pluralism of the media, is an essential factor of Democracy, and therefore considers this recognition to the 31 newspapers that are published in Portugal uninterruptedly, there is at least one century".
The beginning of the publication of these centenary Portuguese newspapers goes from 1835 (Açoriano Oriental, from Ponta Delgada, already on its way to two centuries) until 1917 (O Despertar, from Coimbra).
The newspaper “Folha do Domingo”, as he recalls andthis publication in its online edition, was born on July 19, 1914, under the impulse of the then canon Marcelino Maria Franco (who would later become bishop of the Algarve) with the support of the bishop of the Algarve at the time, D. António Barbosa Leão. of communication of the Diocese of the Algarve.
List of centenary Portuguese periodicals currently published, in chronological order, with the place and year of publication start:
– Eastern Azorean (Ponta Delgada, 1835)
– The Aurora do Lima (Viana do Castelo, 1855)
– Diário de Notícias (Lisbon, 1864)
– Diary of the Azores (Ponta Delgada, 1870)
– Messenger of the Heart of Jesus (Braga, 1874)
– Madeira News Daily (Funchal, 1876)
– Sovereignty of the People (Águeda, 1878)
– The Penafidelense (Penafiel, 1879)
– The Voice of the Worker (Lisbon, 1879)
– Journal of Santo Thyrso (Santo Tirso, 1882)
– The Journal and Estarreja (Estarreja, 1883)
– Jornal de Abrantes (Abrantes, 1884)
– The Commerce of Guimarães (Guimarães, 1884)
– Maria da Fonte (Póvoa de Lanhoso, 1886)
– Jornal de Notícias (Porto, 1888)
– Correio do Ribatejo (Santarém, 1891)
– Correio da Feira (Vila da Feira, 1897)
– The District of Arganil (Arganil, 1901)
– The Municipality of Estarreja (Estarreja, 1901)
– Salesian Bulletin (Lisbon, 1902)
– The Guard (Guarda, 1904)
– Tondela Leaf (Tondela, 1906)
– Cardinal Saraiva (Ponte de Lima, 1910)
– News from Covilhã (Covilhã, 1913)
– The Order (Porto, 1913)
– News from Gouveia (Gouveia, 1914)
– Sunday Sheet (Faro, 1914)
– João Semana (Ovar, 1914)
– The Belief (Vila Franca do Campo – Azores, 1915)
– The Friend of the People (Coimbra, 1916)
– The Awakening (Coimbra, 1917)
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