Thousands of people from Bulgaria and abroad, bearing the flags of Bulgaria and of the Vatican gathered in St. Alexander I Square in the centre of Sofia for a holy mass presided over by Pope Francis.
People from different denominations in the country, where Catholicism is the fourth biggest confession after Orthodox Christianity, Islam and Protestantism, were invited to attend.
Via world media the visit of the head of the Roman Catholic Church to Bulgaria is being followed by over 100 million people around the world.
Tomorrow Pope Francis is to visit a refugee camp in Sofia and celebrate mass in the town of Rakovski, Southern Bulgaria.
On the Bulgarian border with Turkey , traffic is extremely heavy at the Kapitan Andreevo and Lesovo border checkpoints at the exit for trucks, the Border Police reported as of 6:00 this morning. Temporarily, the passage through the Malko Tarnovo..
The villages of Yablanovo and Filaretovo will today hold a memorial ceremony for the victims of the forced renaming of Bulgarian Turks during the so-called "revival process" a campaign of forced assimilation under communism, in which people of Turkish..
Sunny skies will continue over most of the country on Sunday. It will be foggy in the valleys and some of the plains, but there will be a temporary improvement in visibility and a break in the clouds in the afternoon. The weather will be almost calm...
A global campaign focusing on the right of every child to grow up in a family environment has been launched in Sofia on the initiative of the UK..
On the basis of December inflation data published yesterday by Eurostat, the Institute for Market Economics (IME) forecasts that the country could join..
Since 2007, when Bulgaria joined the European Union, the country has received €16.3 billion in EU funds, according to an analysis by the Institute for..
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