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 ...

Registration of another denomination containing in its name the word ‘Orthodox’ won’t be allowed in Bulgaria - Anadolu Ajansı ...

In Varna, tourists strolling past the seaside city's Archaeological Museum might notice a monument of a shofar, a Jewish horn ...

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 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 ...

Leaders of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, which includes about 80% of Bulgarians, condemned the ECHR ruling and called on the government not to give in. Bulgaria’s constitution explicitly ...

So were representatives of the Bulgarian Orthodox church whose predecessors instigated the rescue, as well as a prominent Bulgarian-born Israeli historian and politician, Michael Bar Zohar ...

Leaders of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, which includes about 80% of Bulgarians, condemned the ECHR ruling and called on the government not to give in. Bulgaria's constitution explicitly ...

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 ...

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

Today, approximately a third of Orthodox Christians worldwide are marking Christmas Eve, as they observe the holiday on January 7, according to the Julian calendar. This includes nations and ...

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 ...