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Catholics and Armenians in Bulgaria celebrate Easter

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On April 17 Catholics and Armenians in Bulgaria celebrate Easter. There are more than 20,000 Catholics in Plovdiv district only. Many believers went to church in the town of Rakovski and the Municipality of Kaloyanovo, the BNR reported.

On the occasion of the Orthodox Palm Sunday and the Resurrection of Christ, celebrated by the Catholic and Armenian communities on April 17, Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev wished all Bulgarians health, strength and faith. “Easter is a glorious victory of life over death, of light over darkness, or truth over injustice”, Bulgaria’s head of state noted in his address.




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