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On the occasion of 1160 years since the baptism of the Bulgarian people and 1170 years since the creation of the Bulgarian alphabet and Slavic literature, Bishop Gerasim of Melnik, Secretary General of the Holy Synod read a patriarchal and synodal message at the conciliar holy liturgy in the Dormition of the Mother of God Cathedral in Varna. “The independent Orthodox Church, our alphabet and writing, spirituality, literature and rich culture preserve us to this day as a people with our own face before the world and with our proven and universally recognized contribution to the European and world spiritual and cultural treasury,”said Bishop Gerasim.

The Srechenska Bara Reservoir, which supplies water to Montana, Vratsa, Berkovitsa, Varshets and about twenty other settlements in Northwestern Bulgaria, is full almost to the brim of the spillway, the Montana Regional Administration said on Friday.

Deputy Prime Minister Atanas Zafirov will lead the traditional Bulgarian pilgrimage delegation to Mount Athos for the patron feast of the St George the Zograf Monastery, the government information service said on Friday.

POLITICS  In an opinion piece by Emilia Milcheva for Deutsche Welle, republished by Dnevnik, she describes an unprecedented wave of local mayors joining Delyan Peevski’s political project MRF – New Beginning ("ДПС – Ново начало"). Though Peevski’s

The unemployment rate in the European Union in March 2025, seasonally adjusted, was 5.8%. It remained unchanged compared to February 2025, but declined compared to March 2024, when it reached 6%, Eurostat said Friday

The Bulgarian National Bank Wednesday announced a base interest rate (simple per annum interest) of 2.24% as of May 1, 2025. This is yet another month for which the central bank reduces the base interest rate, which was set at 2.39% for April. This

Bulgaria is represented with a national stand at the 32nd edition of the Arabian Travel Market 2025, which is organized between April 28 and May 1 in Dubai, said the Consulate General of Bulgaria in Dubai on Facebook. "During the forum Bulgaria will

In 2024, 93.3 million people in the European Union, equivalent to 21% of the population of EU countries, were at risk of poverty and social exclusion. This is according to the latest Eurostat data published Wednesday

An exhibition by Denitsa Mihaylova will mark the opening of a new art space in Sofia. The exhibition, titled "Water - Air - Earth", will be arranged by curator Rumena Kalchev at Gallery 65 on Vasil Levski Blvd. and will open on May 8, the organizers said.

The Holy Synod has been consistent in calling for including religion in the regular curriculum of Bulgarian schools "because it is a very important subject", Bulgarian Patriarch and Metropolitan of Sofia Daniil said in an interview on Bulgarian

Russian poet, writer and essayist Maria Stepanova attended Literary Talks 2025 and told BTA’s Asen Georgiev in an interview that collective memory can easily replace history, warning that governments and social-media echo chambers often turn it into a stream of fictional events.

Sofia University Rector Prof. Georgi Valchev and the Austrian Ambassador to Bulgaria Andrea Ikic-Bohm signed a new agreement regulating the status of the Austrian Library Dr. Wolfgang Kraus, the University’s press office announced on Tuesday.

Around 8 am on April 30, customs officers at Danube Bridge 2 (Vidin-Calafat), stopped for inspection  a refrigerated truck, travelling from Belgium to Turkiye, the Appellate Sofia Prosecutor’s Office said on Friday. The vehicle was selected for a

The Council of Ministers Wednesday approved a draft Memorandum of Understanding between the governments of Bulgaria and Turkiye on cooperation in the fields of electricity and energy efficiency, the Government Information Service said.

Sofia University Rector Prof. Georgi Valchev stated that "the presence of the Bulgarian revolutionary, writer and journalist Lyuben Karavelov in the Serbian capital was not peaceful, but contributed to his gaining invaluable experience, so that he became a central figure of Bulgarian emigration."

The St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia has launched a project focused on the cultural ties between Bulgaria and the Republic of North Macedonia, the university said in a press release on Tuesday. The project, titled "CULTURAL AREA - CULTURAL heritage community and AttRactive all-sEAson tourism" is part of the Integrated Development of the Cross-Border Region territorial strategy under the INTERREG VI-A IPA Bulgaria – North Macedonia 2021–2027 programme.