News Bulgaria Religion: Archaeology: Coin from time of Bulgaria’s 13th century Tsar found at Perperikon
Perperikon, in Bulgaria’s eastern Rhodopes region, about 15km from the town of Kurdjali, has been the site of various forms of religious activity from about 7000 years ago, having first been used by ...
News Bulgaria Religion: High state honour conferred on outgoing Israeli ambassador to Bulgaria
(Photo, from left: Nikolai Galabov, president of the Friends of Israel in Bulgaria ‘Negev’, the ambassador’s spouse Alon Cohen, ambassador Irit Lilian, President Radev, and Sofia Cohen, president of ...
News Bulgaria Religion: Bulgaria’s Bourgas Airport terrorist attack: Seven years on, mourning, and justice pending
representing the Bulgarian government, said: “Terror has no religion, it has no sense, it has but one goal – to create fear and hesitation in the efforts to create security”. In a report on July 18, ...
News Bulgaria Religion: Bulgarian government proposes state honour for Bulgarian Jewish ‘Shalom’ President
The letter of motivation for the award submitted to the Bulgarian government said, in part: “The non-governmental sector, related to the protection of the rights of ethnic and religious minorities, ...
News Bulgaria Religion: Archaeology: Third-century inscription with names of Dionysus cult found in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv
Archaeologists working at the Episcopal Basilica site in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv have found a large stone slab, estimated to date from the third century, inscribed in Ancient Greek with the ...
News Bulgaria Religion: Ethiopian religious groups harassing U.S.-based LGBTQ tour company sending hundreds of messages, ‘threatening our lives’
Religious groups in Ethiopia have started a relentless hate ... when the group was touring through Bulgaria and Romania. A blogger named Seyoum Teshome took notice of them after seeing on social media ...
News Bulgaria Religion: Core Baptist convictions can offer a deep well of wisdom for today’s cultural challenges (part 2)
Earlier this year Bulgaria’s parliament was set to pass regressive laws that would have greatly restricted religious freedom, making being Baptist (or any denomination other than Russian Orthodox) ...
News Bulgaria Religion: Socialist Paradise? Bulgarian Textbooks Accused Of Whitewashing Communist Era
Thirty years after the collapse of communism, Bulgarian high-school students are finally getting history textbooks that cover the totalitarian era in their country. But critics say the proposed textbooks contain "candid propaganda cliches" and ignore the fear and oppression of daily life.
News Bulgaria Religion: Pope Francis ends visit to Bulgaria, urging its religious leaders to work for peace
On his last day in Bulgaria, Pope Francis made a heartfelt appeal to the country’s political, religious and cultural leaders to work with determination for peace at home and abroad. “With the fire of ...
News Bulgaria Religion: Pope Francis Urges Bulgaria to Open Its Heart to Refugees
After the meeting, he gave a speech to a crowd of a few thousand people on brotherhood between the churches, noting that Bulgaria, “while an Orthodox country, is a crossroads where various religious ...
News Bulgaria Religion: Pope visits Bulgaria to inspire support for refugees, gets push back from Orthodox
But his efforts to warm relations with the Bulgarian Orthodox Church appeared to stall, as religious leaders stayed away from a peace meeting he convened and one powerful metropolitan called his visit ...
News Bulgaria Religion: Pope in Bulgaria says refugees need love; Orthodox stay away
But his efforts to warm relations with the Bulgarian Orthodox Church appeared to stall, as religious leaders stayed away from a peace meeting he convened and one powerful metropolitan called his visit ...
