On the third day after Easter, when the Orthodox Church celebrates Bright Tuesday, a prayer procession takes place in Momchilovtsi village in the Rhodopes, known by the locals as St. Letenia. It is unique in this part of the country and was..
"On today's festive day, let us wish for health, joy and prosperity in every Bulgarian home," President Rumen Radev wrote on his Facebook account. He also wished Bulgarians in moments of hardship to be guided by reason, empathy and "our unity as..
On the festive Easter night, the head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neophyte announced the Resurrection of Christ at St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia. The temple and the square in front of it were filled with the..
Prime Minister Kiril Petkov will attend tonight the festive service for the holiest Christian holiday of the Resurrection of Christ at the Church of the Мiraculous success in Tsarevo , Burgas Region. Before that he will inspect the damage from..
At midnight, the faithful in Bulgaria will take away from the Orthodox temples part of the Holy Fire brought from Jerusalem last year. The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church has decided that a church delegation will not travel to Israel this..
On the eve of the Great Christian Feast of Holy Resurrection, Bulgarian Ministry of Health warns that the pandemic is not over yet and Covid-19 remains a health hazard. Bulgaria reports 609 new Covid-19 infections, 11 deaths Experts therefore..
Enormous eggs with wonderful Easter pictures painted on them are once again part of the decoration in front of Plovdiv's town council building in the city centre. The 70 cm to 1.20 m. sized-eggs were painted by the students from the National..
Russia rejected the call of UN Secretary General António Guterres for a humanitarian pause over Easter, Ukraine’s ambassador to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsya announced on Twitter. Kyiv proposed negotiations with Russia without conditions in the..
On April 17 Catholics and Armenians in Bulgaria celebrate Easter. There are more than 20,000 Catholics in Plovdiv district only. Many believers went to church in the town of Rakovski and the Municipality of Kaloyanovo, the BNR reported. On the..
May faith in the triumph of good and life give us strength in the face of evil and especially in the face of what we have witnessed for nearly two months- the fratricidal war in brotherly and Orthodox Ukraine- a horrible tragedy we all have been..
