Bulgaria’s President Rossen Plevneliev who is paying an official visit to the Vatican was received today at the Cortile di San Damaso inner courtyard of the Vatican Palace. Together with St Peter’s Square Cortile di San Damaso is the other prestigious square in the Vatican, where high-standing guests are received. The meeting between President Plevneliev and Pope Francis lasted for nearly thirty minutes. In President Plevneliev’s words, Pope Francis sent a message that “ordinary people matter and each ordinary person must succeed and progress”. President Plevneliev and Pope Francis discussed the refugee crisis in Europe during the meeting. This year the visit of the Bulgarian delegation to the Vatican on ocasion of the National Day of Culture and Slavonic Script is dedicated to the 1,100th death anniversary of Saint Clement of Ohrid-the first Bulgarian bishop who held services in Old-Bulgarian language, as well as to the 1,150th anniversary of the talks between Prince Boris 1 and Pope Nicholas which gave the start of the diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and the Vatican.
On Sunday the weather will be predominantly sunny over most of the country. Cumulus clouds will form before midday over the Southeasternmost regions where there will be occasional showers. In the afternoon cumulus rain clouds will form over..
A 9-year old boy with multiple injuries has been airlifted from Burgas to Pirogov emergency hospital in Sofia by a Spartan aircraft. The boy got stuck inside the hydraulic drum of a beach cleaning machine on the central beach in Sozopol...
GERB/SDS will not support a government on the third mandate. This was made clear after three hours of consultations with There Is Such a People (ITN). At these consultations ITN presented its priorities in the spheres of justice, energy and foreign..
A 9-year old boy with multiple injuries has been airlifted from Burgas to Pirogov emergency hospital in Sofia by a Spartan aircraft. The boy got..
Air quality indicators in Plovdiv and the surrounding villages are now back to normal, after the air over Plovdiv was filled with smoke from the..
GERB/SDS will not support a government on the third mandate. This was made clear after three hours of consultations with There Is Such a People (ITN)...
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