October 4, 2019. A church in the Bulgarian city of Vratsa, 60 miles northeast of Sofia, was desecrated and robbed Monday night. This is the third such attack against the Church of St. Nicholas in recent years, reports btnovinite.bg. Police believe the thief was hiding inside the church until the staff left. In the morning, an employee found that $85 (150 leva) […]
» Read moreMarch 30, 2016. Two draft bills tabled in Bulgaria’s Parliament by opposition socialist MPs to amend the law on religious denominations – including provisions that would limit the activities of foreign clerics – are causing controversy, with critics condemning the bills as an assault on religious freedom, as the website sofiaglobe reports. One bill was tabled on March 1 by […]
» Read moreDecember 7, 2015. The Supreme Administrative Court of Bulgaria examined the application of the representatives of cultural and historical society “adherents” against the decision of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria in 2014, as the website rublev.ru reports. According to the decision of the Bulgarian government, the ownership of the Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky in Sofia […]
» Read moreAugust 8, 2015. The Bulgarian Patriarch Neofit sent a letter to Parliament Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva in which he demands that bills concerning healthcare, education, morals, and cultural heritage be handed to the Holy Synod for an opinion as the Sofia News Agency Novinite reports.
» Read moreJuly 9, 2015. The Orthodox Patriarchate of Bulgaria during the session of the Holy Synod expressed its disagreement with the gradual abolition of Sunday in Bulgaria as a day-off as the official web-site of the Patriarchate reports.
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