The fully renovated Bulgarian church St Stephen in Istanbul will be officially unveiled and sanctified at the end of this week at the big Christian feast Ivanovden (the Day of Saint John The Baptist). In 2018 the Bulgarian Iron Church marks its 120th anniversary. It was built thanks to the efforts of the Bulgarian community in Istanbul (Tsarigrad). On Sunday his Holiness Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte and the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will sanctify the renovated church together. Bulgaria’s Premier Boyko Borissov and Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan will attend the event. Regular church services will be held in St Stephen church after its sanctification on Sunday.
The Bulgarian MPs gathered in plenary today for a sixth attempt to elect a President, which again proved unsuccessful. The chances of electing a Speaker of the 51st National Assembly are minimal The candidates Natalia Kiselova from..
Bulgaria's Ambassador to Egypt Deyan Katrachev met with Egypt's newly appointed Minister of Civil Aviation Sameh al-Hefny . At the meeting, which took place on 26 November, both discussed the updating of the air transport agreements between the two..
Representatives of the Food Safety Agency have arrived in Velingrad to take new samples from the 1,700 sheep quarantined because of a suspected plague outbreak. BNR correspondent in Pazardzhik Nevena Petrova reported that the Food Agency..
The U.S. Department of State today released the data for the refused type B visas for the financial year 2024. For Bulgaria, this percentage is 6.02%,..
The Bulgarian Hotel and Restaurant Association (BHRA) presented its annual awards for professional achievements in the field of tourism. The Bulgarian..
At the opening of a business forum in Ho Chi Minh City during his official visit to Vietnam, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev pointed out that Bulgaria..
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