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..
Bulgaria’s government is ready to help the Holy Synod bring the Holy Fire from the Holy City of Jerusalem by the government plane, Premier Kiril Petkov pointed out in a letter to Patriarch Neophyte. This good tradition should not be interrupted,..
Catholics and Armenians in Bulgaria celebrate Palm Sunday today . The church services mark the beginning of Holy Week. In 2022, the Catholic and the Armenian Church celebrate Easter on April 17. After the service at the Armenian Apostolic..
A week before the beginning of Great Lent and a day before Mesni Zagovesni (the last day the Eastern Orthodox Christians are allowed to eat meat before Lent), Bulgarian Orthodox Church has assigned a day for the commemoration of the departed...