All Souls' Day, also known as Cherry All Souls' Day after the fruit popular during this season, is celebrated on Saturday before Pentecost. On this day Orthodox Christians pay respect to the dead.
Believers do not do housework to direct their thoughts to those who have passed into the afterlife. In the calendar of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church there are another two similar days during the year.
An icon of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Equal to the Apostles, is kept in the ethnographic museum of the multicultural Bessarabian village of Vinogradovka , Ukraine, according to the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency. The relic forms part of the museum's..
More and more foreign students have been choosing Bulgarian universities and higher education institutions in recent years, the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) reports. The increased interest is due not only to the tuition fees, but also to the quality of..
The European Commission has opened penalty proceedings against five countries, including Bulgaria, for incorrectly implementing changes to European drinking water regulations, BTA reports. The countries were supposed to implement the amended..
Bulgarian Shopska Salad has earned a place among the 24 best salads in the world according to a new ranking published by CNN, BGNES reports. The fresh and..
A new medical equipment manufacturing center of the Czech company BTL Industries has opened in Plovdiv. The event was attended by President Rumen Radev,..
According to Eurostat data , in 2024 Bulgaria and Estonia ranked second to last in the EU in terms of actual individual consumption (AIC) per..
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