Bulgarian parliament recognized Bulgarian Orthodox Church as the sole representative of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the country, after a new bill adopted by the parliament. The bill was ...

SOFIA - Nikolai Balashov, a senior Russian Orthodox priest sanctioned by Ukraine and reportedly a former KGB colonel general, was granted entry into Bulgaria following the Patriarch’s invitation and ...

At the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp on January 27 Bulgarian Jewish leader Maxim ...

During World War II, under pressure from Nazi Germany, Bulgaria joined the Tripartite Pact in 1941 and enacted the Law for the Protection of the Nation, which targeted the Jewish minority. Despite ...

In a secret ballot vote in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s diocese of Vidin on February 2, two bishops were shortlisted to be ...

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church today commemorates St Athanasius the Great recognized as the father of Orthodox theology A solemn liturgy w ...

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is the sole representative of the country’s traditional Eastern Orthodox Christianity and it alone may can use the term “Orthodox” in its name, Bulgaria’s ...

This imposing Bulgarian Orthodox church was constructed in 1882 to honour the Russian soldiers who died during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. It can hold 5000 people inside and is the ...

Surrounded by mountains in the heart of the Balkans, Sofia’s strategic location made it a focus for invasion over the centuries.

In Orthodox Christian communities ... In the tiny city of Elin Pelin, situated in a rural area east of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, dozens of men jumped into the wintry waters of the Lesnovska ...

12 Bulgarian men sing and dance in river water during their country's celebrations of the feast of the Epiphany on January 6. 13 An Orthodox military chaplain with the Ukrainian Armed Forces ...