Belene case Catholic priest: ‘Where are you, Patriarch Neofit? Where are you, Mr President Radev?’
Father Paolo Cortese, the Roman Catholic priest recalled from Bulgaria after getting death threats for sheltering a Syrian refugee family,
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Author: The Sofia Globe staff
Bulgarian Orthodox Church Holy Synod names Bishop Grigorii as new Metropolitan of Vratsa
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, unanimously elected 47-year-old Bishop Grigorii on March 12 as the new
Read moreProtest held in Sofia over Roman Catholic priest recalled from Bulgaria after death threats for sheltering Syrian refugees
A group of Bulgarians from a civil society pressure group held a protest outside the Presidency in Sofia on March
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Labour inspectorate finds foreigners illegally employed at Bulgarian ski resorts
The Bulgarian Labour Inspectorate found numerous breaches of labour law at the country’s ski resorts, including the illegal employment of
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Bulgaria has expelled 472 non-EU nationals since the beginning of 2017 – Interior Ministry
Between January 1 and March 9 2017, Bulgaria sent a total of 472 third-country nationals – meaning non-EU citizens –
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Mensa challenges Bulgaria’s MP candidates to take IQ tests – and only four out of more than 4000 agree
Repeating a challenge that it issued in previous elections, Mensa Bulgaria called on the more than 4000 would-be members of
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Bulgarian caretaker PM says he hopes tensions with Turkey do not lead to cutting diplomatic relations
Bulgaria’s caretaker Prime Minister Ognyan Gerdzhikov has acknowledged his country’s tensions with Turkey but said that he hoped that these
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Roman Catholic priest who sheltered Syrian refugees at Belene is leaving Bulgaria
The Roman Catholic priest who was at the centre of controversy because he sheltered a Syrian refugee family in the
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Bulgaria elections 2017: Energy and water regulator chief takes vow of silence
The head of Bulgaria’s Energy and Water Regulatory Commission said on March 9 that he would make no public statements
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