Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church marks on March 9 the Day of Forty Holy Martyrs of Sebaste. The day commemorates the victory of Tsar Ivan Asen II over Theodore Komnin of Epirus on March 9, 1230 near the village of Klokotnitsa. Later, Ivan Asen II built the popular Holy Forty Martyrs church in the capital city of Veliko Tarnovo which is still functioning. On March 9 the church also honors the Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste who were a group of Roman soldiers in the Legio XII Fulminata who died for the Chritian faith. They were killed near the city of Sebaste, in Lesser Armenia. The Forty Holy Martyrs were victims of the persecutions of Licinius who persecuted the Christians of the East.
The Bulgarian foreign ministry is in constant contact with the Bulgarian embassies in Beirut, Tel Aviv and Tehran, announced by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Elena Shekerletova, at a briefing in the Council of Ministers. The..
The Council of Ministers approved the signing of a Security Cooperation Agreement between Bulgaria and Ukraine and Bulgaria's accession to the Ukraine Compact, presented during the NATO Summit in Washington in July. The Ukraine Compact was..
A all-out war in the Middle East would be the worst case scenario, stated by the Caretaker Minister of Defense Atanas Zapryanov to journalists in the Council of Ministers. He stressed that with the escalation of tension the refugee flows will increase...
At present, there is no information indicating a threat to the security of Bulgarian citizens. However, enhanced security measures have been taken in..
On Thursday , the minimum temperatures will be between 5 and 10°C, in Sofia 6°C. The day's highs will be from 23°C to 28°C , in the capital it will..
Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivan Kondov is leading the Bulgarian delegation at the 45th session of the Ministerial Conference of La..
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