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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 […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s Cabinet approved on April 24 an additional 20.7 million leva (about 10.5 million euro) in state subsidies for religious denominations, with 15 million leva going […]
Bulgarian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Neofit said on April 18 that the church had learnt with a broken heart about the fire at Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral “making a huge impact […]
A bishop from the “Macedonian Orthodox Church” will accompany a Bulgarian Orthodox Church delegation to Jerusalem at Easter 2019 to fetch the “Holy Fire”. This emerged at a meeting between […]
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body says that while a meeting between Patriarch Neofit and Pope Francis is possible during the Pope’s May 2019 visit to Bulgaria, the church will […]
Meeting Prime Minister Boiko Borissov on March 11, the leaders of the country’s Muslims and Bulgarian Orthodox Church expressed their support for legislation that scraps more than eight million leva […]
The Vatican announced on March 7 the full programme of the visit by Pope Francis to Bulgaria, confirmed for May 5 to 7 2019. Pope Francis will arrive on May […]
The religious denominations and human rights committee of the Bulgarian Parliament approved on March 7 the first reading of legislative amendments that provide for writing off debts to the stated […]
