The youngest grandmother in Bulgaria is just 28, Dr. Antonio Dushepeev, head of the maternity ward at the University General Hospital in Burgas said for the BNR. 149 underage girls gave birth at the hospital last year alone, the youngest of whom was only 11. “The probability is huge that the child of a child, who has given birth to a child, will give birth at approximately the same age,” Dr. Antonio Dushepeev said further. Only 10% of the pregnant girls in.. See more

Winds of up to 120 kms. per hour inflicted damage in Vratsa, the biggest town in Bulgaria’s Northwest. Dozens of reports have come in of fallen trees and branches onto vehicles and roads, damaged equipment and torn overhead cables. There were partial outages in some parts of Vratsa, as well as in many other towns and villages in the municipality. Damage control teams, in coordination with the local administration’s crisis headquarters, worked.. See more

The Feast of the Epiphany - the entry of the Theotokos into the Temple - is one of the oldest and most revered feasts in the Orthodox world. It was introduced in Constantinople around the 8th century during the time of Patriarch Tarasius. It was six centuries later, under Pope Gregory XI, that the feast began to be celebrated in Western Europe. In modern Bulgarian Church history, Epiphany was established in 1929 by a decision of the Holy Synod as the Day of.. See more