Section: Radio Bulgaria (Bulgaria)
Catholics in Bulgaria expect Easter
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...
Bulgarian Catholics want Pope to visit Bulgaria
After meeting with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov in Sofia, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said he would send the message of the Catholic community in Bulgaria that they would like the Pope to pay a visit to this country. The only Pope to have visited Bulgaria so far is John Paul II, who arrived in Sofia in 2002....
Nilüfer Göle on new forms of protest: Tahrir, Maidan, Gezi and Eagle’s Bridge
What is the common thing between the protest movements in the Tahrir Square, the Maidan, the Gezi Park and Eagle’s Bridge downtown Sofia? The specifics of these forms of protest and the way they are carried out on public spots is the key subject in the research of sociologist Nilüfer Göle, a professor at the leading French School for...
Bulgarian universities start to receive Bulgarian students, living abroad
The ministry of education kicks off an information campaign among the Bulgarian communities abroad for recruitment of students, PhDs and graduates who want to study at universities in this country as of the new academic year. The information days /March 14 – 31/ will be held in Moldova, Ukraine, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia. Those will...
Bulgaria tries not to be alternative to refugees’ Balkan route
Preliminary data claims that today’s EU–Turkey summit intends to put an end to the non-regulated migrant flow towards West and North Europe across the West Balkan countries. The flow along that route has been seriously restricted recently and that has resulted in refugees and traffickers’ increased interest towards circumventing...
Veliko Tarnovo’s Summer Medieval Festival now international
Troupes for Medieval recreations from 5 countries have been invited to participate in the Summer Medieval Festival in the old Bulgarian capital of Veliko Tarnovo. That is why the festival which had four editions last year at the Tsarevets fortress with troupes from this country only now turns into an international event. “We have invited...
An obelisk in a maize-field or what “Roman” Bulgaria looked like
Imagine you have to wade across a field of maize, overgrown with briars. Why? To take photographs of an obelisk from Roman times, part of a high priest’s mausoleum. There’s no need to imagine it – that is precisely what happened to the publishers of the album A Guide to Roman Bulgaria. With the exception of Milena Raycheva, they...
The Liberation of Bulgaria and the role of media
The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 was different from other military clashes of the two empires. Regardless of Russia’s strategic goals, the war was declared as a war in protection of Christianity. „All of our loyal citizens are aware of the empathy with which we have always treated the fate of the oppressed Christian population of Turkey....
Anna Buxton: “Very often a person feels more Bulgarian when they are away from Bulgaria”
On March 3, as part of events marking Bulgaria’s Liberation Day, the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in London will host the exhibition “Maps of Bulgaria.” It will be presented by our compatriot Anna Buxton, a researcher of Bulgarian history, translator and writer, wife of well-known translator of Bulgarian literature Christopher...
We pay tribute to doctors, paramedics and Samaritans who died for freedom
On March 2 the Bulgarian Red Cross organizes a tribute ceremony at the Doctor’s monument in Sofia in relation to the 138th anniversary of the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule. The organization has invited to join the event the ambassadors of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Romania, Finland, state leaders, representatives of...
