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Pope Francis to hold talks with Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit on May 5 in Sofia

December 23, 2018December 27, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, will hold talks with Bulgarian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Neofit on

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Bulgaria’s Parliament approves second reading of Religious Denominations Act amendments

December 21, 2018December 24, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Bulgaria’s National Assembly approved on December 21 the second and final reading of amendments to the Religious Denominations Act, legislation

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Bulgarian nationalist party congratulates Poroshenko on founding of independent Ukranian Orthodox church

December 16, 2018December 16, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Russia, Ukraine, Valeri Simeonov

The National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria (NFSB), an ultra-nationalist party that is part of the country’s governing coalition,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Orthodox Church supports organ transplants – under certain conditions

December 12, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church has issued its position on organ transplants, a day after Health Minister

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Evangelical Protestant churches approach Council of Europe over Bulgaria’s Religions Act amendments

December 3, 2018December 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Human rights organisation ADF International and a coalition of Bulgarian Evangelical Protestant churches have filed a formal request with the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian government signs co-operation memorandum with World Jewish Congress, ‘Shalom’

November 23, 2018November 26, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews, Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Bulgaria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev, who is the country’s National Co-ordinator for Combating Antisemitism, has signed on behalf of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria revises draft law on religions after objections from faith groups

November 16, 2018November 18, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews, Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Responding to objections from various faiths, parties in Bulgaria’s Parliament are revising amendments to the Religious Denomination Act before the

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Bulgaria 

Centenary of Armistice marked in Bulgarian capital on Remembrance Sunday 2018

November 11, 2018March 5, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The centenary of the Armistice at the close of the First World War was marked in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia at

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Bulgaria 

Bells in Bulgarian churches to toll on November 11 to mark centenary of end of First World War

November 7, 2018November 11, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

At the invitation of the UK, Bulgaria will take part in an international initiative to mark the centenary of the

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