In a Christmas message signed by the Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte and all 14 bishops of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, the highest-ranking clergymen call on the Orthodox Bulgarians to take care, each according to his or her own powers and capabilities, of all those in need, in suffering, in hunger and thirst, not only by words but also by acts of charity and basic humaneness. With this message, the patriarch and the bishops greet all the faithful parishioners of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, both at home and abroad, with the Nativity of Christ, wishing them all spiritual and physical health, an apostolic spirit, and God-blessed achievements in every God-pleasing and beneficent endeavor.