Scouting in Portugal

The Scouting began to take their first steps in Portugal in the year of 1911. Only one of the associations that emerged at that time exists today: the “The Scout Association of Portugal” (AEP). http://escoteiros.net/new_site/

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The tapping of National Corps - Portuguese Catholic Scouting appeared to May 27, 1923, after the church was aware of how the method of scouts was appropriate for the education of young Catholics. As the other associations listening to the pitch not professed no faith in particular, the church found an association founded by well scouts Catholic ...
The Catholic national scouts currently has over 1,000 groups and more than 50,000 members.
http://www.cne-escutismo.pt/

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