On Sunday, the Catholic world celebrates Easter. A relatively small community of Catholics in Bulgaria, just above 1 percent of the population in this country, have also been expecting the Resurrection. History of Catholicism in Bulgaria dates back to the Middle Ages, when monks from the Franciscan Order of today’s Bosnia undertook a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Their path passed through Bulgaria, then part of the Ottoman Empire. Some of the monks remained in these lands and on behalf of the Vatican laid the foundations of the Catholic Church in …read more
Source: Radio Bulgaria
