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Police in Sofia and in Plovdiv have begun an investigation following the publication of a photograph of an official car of Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Nikolai, apparently showing it having […]
Prosecutors have searched two notary offices in Sofia as part of an investigation into illegal transactions involving properties, some of which are ow ...
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe, Antonii, has become the second Metropolitan to praise the visit by Pope Fran ...
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan of Rousse, Naum, has praised Pope Francis as a good person and welcomed the Pope’s message of love an ...
Controversial hardline Plovdiv Metropolitan of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Nikolai, has launched a vitriolic attack on the visit to the country by Pope Francis. “The visit by the Pope of […]
Pope Francis held talks with Patriarch Neofit and other leaders of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church at the Holy Synod headquarters in Sofia on May 5, with both church heads making […]
Ahead of his May 5 to 7 visit to Bulgaria, Pope Francis has addressed a message to the country’s people in a video, the government information service said. The head […]
In a historic first, a bishop from the “Macedonian Orthodox Church” flew on a Bulgarian government aircraft to Jerusalem to fetch the “holy fire” sacred to Orthodox Christians for Easter […]
Three flights were redirected from Sofia Airport to Bulgaria’s Black Sea cities of Varna and Bourgas on April 27 as thunderstorms swept in on the evening that the country joined […]
In an annual Easter ritual sacred to Orthodox Christians, the “holy fire” was distributed at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on April 27 2019, Great Saturday in […]
