The Sofia Directorate of Internal Affairs (SDVR) has announced that it will increase police presence around churches in central Sofia to maintain public order. The intensified patrols will involve ...

In a secret ballot vote in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s diocese of Vidin on February 2, two bishops were shortlisted to be ...

In Varna, tourists strolling past the seaside city's Archaeological Museum might notice a monument of a shofar, a Jewish horn ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria, who was the first elected head of the Orthodox Church in the post-communist Balkan country, died at a hospital in Sofia. He was 78.

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church is the sole representative of the country’s traditional Eastern Orthodox Christianity and it alone may can use the term “Orthodox” in its name, Bulgaria’s ...

SOFIA, March 14. /TASS/. Patriarch Neophyte, or Neofit, of Bulgaria has died at the age of 78, the Bulgarian Patriarchate said. "After a protracted illness, His Holiness Patriarch of Bulgaria and ...

Registration of another denomination containing in its name the word ‘Orthodox’ won’t be allowed in Bulgaria - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Surrounded by mountains in the heart of the Balkans, Sofia’s strategic location made it a focus for invasion over the centuries.