Tag: Bulgaria
Bulgaria’s Orthodox Christians Embark on 40-Day Christmas Fast
15/11/2011 Bulgarian Orthodox Christians enter Tuesday a 40-day fast that will end on December 24, Christmas Eve . The Christmas Fast is the second longest ... Read More
Delegation of the Orthodox Church of Bulgaria on a Visit to the Romanian Patriarchate
The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate informs us: On 11 November 2011, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel received, at the Patriarchal Residence, a delegation of ... Read More
Bulgarian Orthodox Church Marks Archangel All Souls’ Day
5/11/2011 Bulgaria's Christian Orthodox Church honors Saturday the All Souls' Day before the Day of St. Archangel Michael, or the so-called Archangel All Souls' Day. ... Read More
Bulgaria Honors Miracle Worker St. Ivan Rilski
19/10/2011 Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria commemorate on October 19 S.t Ivan Rilski, known as the Miracle Worker and also celebrated as the patron of Bulgaria. ... Read More
Bulgarian Orthodox Church Calls for Peace, Justice Amid Ethnic Unrest
2/10/2011 Plovdiv metropolitan bishop Nikolay is holding a service Sunday in the village of Katunitsa near Plovdiv, the site that has sparked a week of ... Read More
Church warns of ethnic flare-up
Associated Press 2011-09-30 Bulgaria's influential Christian Orthodox Church is urging people to avoid further ethnic flare-ups in the Balkan country. Riots erupted last weekend after ... Read More
Bulgaria’s Capital Marks Saint Sofia Day
17/9/2011 Bulgaria's capital celebrates Friday St. Sofia Day - the date when the Orthodox world pays homage to the Holy Martyrs Sofia and her three ... Read More
Bulgaria Marks Holy Cross Day, ‘End of Summer’
14/9/2011 Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria celebrate the day of the Holy Cross on September 14, which is said to spell the end of the summer ... Read More
Bulgarian Muslims Rebuild Christian Neighbors’ Church
1/9/2011 A unique picture of inter-religious tolerance can be viewed in a Northeastern Bulgarian village called Kamburovo, with local Muslims working to rebuild a church. ... Read More
Crimson Code of Berat arrives in Bulgaria
FOCUS News Agency 14/8/2011 Crimson Code of Berat will arrive in Bulgaria. This will be one of the exhibits displayed in the exhibition themed The ... Read More
Living Museum in Koprivshtitsa Resurrects Bulgaria’s Revival Period
12/8/2011 A new living museum in Bulgaria's Koprivshtitsa – the town which gave the start of the 1876 April Uprising against the Ottoman Empire – ... Read More
Sofia Named Permanent Host of Religious Tolerance
5/8/2011 Sofia is slated to outshine Jerusalem by becoming a permanent host of a tolerancedialogue between different religions from all over the world. The news ... Read More
Sofia to Set Example of Religious Tolerance
31/7/2011 Sofia is to become in the course of two days Mecca, Jerusalem and the Vatican at once, when high-ranking clergy from 20 countries will ... Read More
Bulgarian Archeologists Unearth Precious Finds at Perperikon
15/7/2011 The first precious archeological finds for 2011 at the Thracian rock sanctuary Perperikon in southern Bulgaria are already a fact, according to Bulgaria's top ... Read More
Bulgaria’s Government steps up funding for Church Buildings
13/7/2011 Construction projects at sites on the "religion tourism" route and in communities that have no houses of worship is to be stepped up, to ... Read More
Bulgarian govt tries to support church as much as it can, without interfering, says PM
Veselina YORDANOVA 4/7/2011 Sofia. We are trying to support church as much as we can and without interfering. I think you are satisfied with the ... Read More
Relics of Maximus Confessor to Travel to Bulgaria
2/7/2011 The relics of the great Christian Orthodox theologian St. Maximus the Confessor will travel from Mount Athos and be laid out for veneration in ... Read More
Day of St Peter Preaches Half-Day Work in Bulgaria
29/6/2011 Bulgaria's Orthodox Church is celebrating the day of St Peter and Paul (Pavel in Bulgarian) when - tradition says - people should work only ... Read More
Ode to the Righteous Bulgarian Gentiles
By Menachem Wecker 29/6/2011 Church, King and People Are All Celebrated in a Musical Festival When several trains entered Bulgaria secretly on March 8, 1943, ... Read More
Bulgarian PM, Orthodox Church Engage in Hearty Back-Scratching
18/6/2011 Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Varna Bishop Kiril have exchange warm niceties and praises, with the bishop going as far as comparing Borisov ... Read More
Bulgarian Ethnic Turks Demand Having 2nd Mosque in Sofia
3/6/2011 Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish party, Movement for Rights and Freedoms, DPS, is demanding to have a second mosque built in the capital Sofia. The request ... Read More