St. Great Martyr Anastasia was born in the 3rd century in a wealthy and prominent Roman family. Anastasia devoted her entire life to serving God and the neighbor, and saw wealth only as a means entrusted to her by God for the good of others. St. Anastasia was sentenced to death for her faith in Christ and executed in 290. Later, her relics were translated to Constantinople.
According to folk beliefs, women, especially mothers, do not work on this day to keep their children from getting sick. They knead and hand out pita bread coated with honey.
The national sheepbreeders’ festival is bringing together people from the sector, fans of tradition, folklore, and healthy farm food, as well as of old-time culinary tradition, near the St. Peter and Paul Monastery today, BNR’s correspondent in..
Thirty percent of Bulgarians, or 1.8 million people fall into the category of energy-poor households with no access to basic energy services for adequate heating, cooling, lighting and energy for household appliances, BNR’s Tsvetelina Stoyanova..
Ahmed Dogan’s supporters will hold an extraordinary meeting of their party’s central operative bureau to discuss the idea of creating a new political party, BGNES reports. According to unofficial data, its leader will be MP Ilhan Kyuchyuk. The..
Protests in defence of the Bulgarian lev and against the adoption of the euro currency are scheduled to take place on May 31 in many cities and towns..
Thousands of citizens have gathered in the center of Sofia to protest against the introduction of the euro . The demonstration is supported by political..
Raising fines for traffic offences and an enhanced police presence – these are the measures announced by Interior Minister Daniel Mitov after the..
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