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Bulgaria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev, who is the country’s National Co-ordinator for Combating Antisemitism, has signed on behalf of the government a memorandum of co-operation with the World Jewish […]
Responding to objections from various faiths, parties in Bulgaria’s Parliament are revising amendments to the Religious Denomination Act before the bill is put to a second reading. This emerged after […]
The centenary of the Armistice at the close of the First World War was marked in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia at the annual Remembrance Sunday ceremony on November 11 2018, and […]
At the invitation of the UK, Bulgaria will take part in an international initiative to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War, with bells tolling in […]
Bulgaria, where the majority of the population declare themselves to be Orthodox Christians but which also endured decades of officially atheist communist rule, has the fewest priests per capita among […]
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church still has no official position on the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s decision that Ukraine could have its own Orthodox Christian church independent of Moscow, Patriarch Neofit said in […]
A two-day referendum in Romania on changing the constitutional definition of marriage to narrow it to “the consensual marriage between a man and a woman” appeared unlikely on October 7 […]
The Bulgarian government and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church have agreed that controversial amendments to the Religious Denominations Act will be changed before its second reading in the National Assembly. This […]
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church held celebrations on September 23 of the 140th anniversary of the birth of Exarch Stefan, who headed the church from 1945 to 1948 and who was […]
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church held its own celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the founding of the Ohrid Archbishopric on June 10, having turned down an invitation to attend the […]
