Today marks the 40th anniversary of the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Bulgarian Sergei Antonov, an employee of the BGA Balkan office in Rome, was accused of complicity in the attack on May 13, 1981. The..
The doyen of Bulgarian diplomacy Rayko Nikolov has died at the age of 96 , the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry has announced. Rayko Nikolov was Bulgaria’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva for many years, as well as to the former Yugoslavia and to..
December 30 marks the 40th anniversary of the proclamation by Pope John Paul II with his Apostolic Letter Egregiae Virtitus of Saints Cyril and Methodius as co-patrons of Europe. Cyril and Methodius are among the six saints proclaimed..
Pope Francis is to pay an apostolic visit to Bulgaria from 5 to 7 May, 2019, to include Sofia and Rakovski. His Holiness will be the second head of the Catholic Church to have visited Bulgaria, after Pope John Paul II’s paid a visit to this..
