Bulgaria's Prime Minister Kiril Petkov attended with his family the festive service in the church-monument "St. Alexander Nevsky” for the Nativity of Christ. Petkov wished greeted all Bulgarian citizens with Christ's Nativity and wished them a festive..
One in three Bulgarians spends at least EUR 500 over the Christmas and New Year holiday season, a survey of a financial portal indicate. Almost 20% of the respondents managed to put aside between EUR 50 and 125 for the holidays. Despite the..
The Donate for Bulgaria foundation is organizing a gift wrapping campaign. The Christmas gifts will be sent to children’s social homes and to families in need from all over the country. The volunteers in the campaign, which has been made possible..
Christmas is drawing closer, and with it – the end of the Advent fast. There are people, even those who do not adhere to the Christian faith, who believe that purification at a physical level – by abstaining from food of animal origin – leads..
Christmas decorations in the Bulgarian capital city Sofia Photos: BGNES
On January 6, Armenians celebrate Christmas and Epiphany. This year the Armenian Church in Sofia will be broadcasting the Holy Liturgy online because of the pandemic. This was what Vartanush Topakbashian, editor-in-chief of the Yerevan newspaper, has..
For the seventh year in a row, 36-year-old Georgi Simeonov from Gorna Oryahovitsa has taken the role of Santa Claus to help somebody in need. This time his charity activity is aimed at a 41-year-old fellow citizen with stomach cancer and will..
Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev and Prime Minister Boyko Borissov greeted Bulgarians on the arrival of Christmas via their Facebook profiles, wishing them health and hope. "Let us be united in our efforts to preserve the spirituality destined to..
During this year many Bulgarians prepared their Christmas decorations very early, lavishly decorating their homes. The psychologist Bilyana Stoyanova sees in this a hope for a miracle which could "stop the flow of black statistics and we could start..
The Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte will lead the solemn services in the Patriarchal Cathedral of Saint Alexander Nevsky on the occasion of the Nativity of Christ . This was announced by the Bulgarian Patriarchate. On December 24, on Christmas Eve,..