The religious services on Easter will be held in front of the temples. I am calling on the Bulgarians to refrain from going to church in that moment. May only those who need the temple the most go to church on Easter, Premier Borissov said after a meeting with the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.
The Holy Fire will not be brought from Jerusalem, because the Church has kept it from last year's Easter. The money that had to be spent on the flight to Tel Aviv will be redirected towards the activities aimed to contain the Covid-19 epidemic. It also became clear that no willow twigs and flowers will be handed to the Christians on Palm Sunday.
Bulgaria will not yet request an extraordinary convergence report - a key step towards joining the eurozone. This was announced by Finance Minister Temenuzhka Petkova from the rostrum in Parliament. She said that during her meetings with the EU..
On the eve of February 1 - the day on which Bulgaria pays homage to the victims of the communist regime - the We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (PP-DB) party announced that it was tabling a bill for the removal of all monuments that symbolise..
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church (BOC) is the only representative of the country's traditional Eastern Orthodoxy. This was decided by MPs in the final amendments to the Law on Religious Denominations. The amendment, which states that only the BOC can use the..
Taxi drivers gathered at Sofia Airport in protest, blocking access to Terminal 2 for a short time on Friday afternoon. They are unhappy with the new..
On Saturday, fog or low clouds will cover the plains and sheltered valleys. Minimum temperatures will be between 0 and 5°C, around 1°C in Sofia. Sunny..
The claims of Bulgarian citizens investigated for espionage in the UK about their links to the "highest echelons" of power in Bulgaria, are not based on..
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