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Bridge of Faith

BNR's Radio Bulgaria starts a podcast about our Orthodox communities abroad

From 31 January 2025, the first podcast about Bulgarian Orthodox communities abroad - Bridge of Faith - will be launched. The concept is the brainchild of the team of the Bulgarian National Radio's (BNR) overseas programme - Radio Bulgaria, and is being implemented in cooperation with the Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (BOC) in Western and Central Europe.


Bridge of Faith will be released on the last Friday of each month. It will be available on the BNR Radio Bulgaria website, as well as on the radio's podcast platform - Binar.bg and on Radio Bulgaria's YouTube channel.


The Bulgarian Churches abroad serve as a living link to Bulgaria for our compatriots who in recent decades have sought stability and better living conditions abroad, or who live in different parts of the world due to historical processes and events. Our church communities abroad are organised into two dioceses: the Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada and Australia, based in New York, and the Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of Western and Central Europe, based in Berlin, Germany.


Each episode of the "Bridge of Faith" podcast will highlight a specific Bulgarian community abroad, presenting it in both historical and contemporary contexts. Selected segments of the series will be featured in multimedia publications in all language versions of the Radio Bulgaria website, as well as in the programme The Hour of Radio Bulgaria on the Hristo Botev Channel. The podcast will also be accompanied by a video about the respective Bulgarian Orthodox community, which will be distributed on YouTube and BNR's social media channels.

Alexandra Karamihaleva and Darina Grigorova
In the first episode of the Bridge of Faith podcast, authors Darina Grigorova - Senior Editor at Radio Bulgaria - BNR and Alexandra Karamihaleva - Editor-in-Chief of the Church Newspaper, the official print publication of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, take us to the headquarters of our diocese in Berlin and introduce us to Metropolitan Antony of Western and Central Europe. Through him, we learn about the work of the 43 church communities in his diocese, which, in addition to their religious mission, also engage in charitable, social and educational activities. We also discover how the BOC interacts with institutions and other Christian communities in Western Europe.

At the beginning of 2025, the Radio Bulgaria team also launched the daily segment Church Calendar. Both this programme and the Bridge of Faith podcast are examples of the good partnership between BNR and the BOC, which was further strengthened in mid-January with the signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation by BNR General Director Milen Mitev and Metropolitan Anthony of Western and Central Europe.



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