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Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan speaks on controversy over stance on Strategy for the Child

February 12, 2019February 13, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Bulgarian Orthodox Church Lovech Metropolitan Gavriil, now at the centre of a controversy over a stance that falsely claimed to

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Bulgarian Orthodox Church deletes controversial opinion on National Strategy for the Child from website

February 12, 2019February 12, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

A controversial opinion purported to be from the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod urging a ban on terminations of pregnancy,

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Bulgaria 

Repairing Bulgaria’s Alexander Nevsky cathedral would cost 4M leva – interdepartmental commission

February 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Sofia

Repairs and restoration work on the landmark Alexander Nevsky cathedral in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia would cost about four million leva

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Orthodox Church calls for abortion ban, compulsory religion in schools, no sex education

February 9, 2019February 12, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, has called for a complete rewrite of the government’s National Strategy

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria government gives additional 5M leva for pay for Orthodox Church priests

January 30, 2019January 31, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Bulgaria’s Cabinet is allocating an additional five million leva (about 2.5 million euro) to the Religions Directorate to help pay

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Orthodox Church denies deciding on independence of Ukrainian church

January 27, 2019January 29, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Ukraine

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church has rejected reports in Ukrainian media that its governing body has decided to support the autocephaly

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch: ‘Macedonia’ church issue to await settlement on name

January 21, 2019January 23, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Macedonia, Ukraine

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church will address the question of the autocephaly of the “Macedonian Orthodox Church” after the process of

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Bulgaria 

Dossier Commission: Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Intelligence Agency, Military Intelligence refusing to co-operate

January 20, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Dossier Commission

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Military Intelligence and the State Intelligence Agency have been refusing to provide lists of people that

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Bulgaria 

Initiative calls on Pope, Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch to visit former Belene prison camp

January 2, 2019January 2, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

An initiative has been launched calling for Pope Francis and Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit to visit the former Belene

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