Today the Bulgarian Orthodox Church celebrates the Holy Ghost. On this day Orthodox Christians pay homage to the holy life-giving spirit, it being the third person of the Consubstantial Holy and undivided Trinity. According to the Christian faith the Holy Ghost gives life to creatures and sanctifies human souls and bodies. In iconography it is depicted as a dove. In popular tradition the day is related to the cult of the dead, and it is believed that on this day the spirits released on Easter are coming back in.
On Sunday the weather will be predominantly sunny, but after midday and in the evening there will be brief showers with thunder mostly over the mountains and in the Eastern parts of the country. Hail is in the forecast for the mountainous regions of..
“In Bulgaria there are many other camps and prisons but Belene has come to be regarded as a synonym of communist repression and communist brutality,” said President Petar Stoyanov (1997-2002), addressing the people, including former camp inmates,..
186 reports of vote buying have so far been submitted to the Ministry of Interior, caretaker Minister of Interior Kalin Stoyanov has announced. Out of the 74 cases in which pretrial proceedings have been initiated, the biggest number of attempts at..
Huge territories in Bulgaria are already abandoned, their people are gradually dying out. This is shown by an analysis of the declining demographic and..
On Saturday, the weather will be mostly sunny. In the afternoon, there may be cumulonimbus and cumulus clouds and in some places, especially in the..
As of 31.12.2023 children under 17 in Bulgaria are 1,104,198, or 17.1% of the total population. This is according to data compiled by the National..
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