Young girls dressed in beautiful costumes from the Gabrovo region, with wreaths on their heads and baskets of flowers in their hands, will walk through the streets of the Etar Ethnographic Open-Air Museum today. The girls are..
This coming Sunday, 17 April, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church marks Palm Sunday. But as there are no free-growing palms in our part of the world, it is budding willow twigs that are the symbol of this day in Bulgaria. In folklore tradition, Palm Sunday..
Catholics and Armenians in Bulgaria celebrate Palm Sunday today . The church services mark the beginning of Holy Week. In 2022, the Catholic and the Armenian Church celebrate Easter on April 17. After the service at the Armenian Apostolic..
Dozens of believers filled the St. Nedelya church in Sofia today for the Palm Sunday liturgy. Every attendee was able to take home willow twigs which have been blessed, as is customary on this day. By a tradition the twigs are made into..
A popular day in this country, Palm Sunday always falls on the Sunday after St. Lazarus Day and after Easter. All people named after flowers celebrate it as their name day – from the traditional Tsvetan, Tsvetanka, Nevena, Temenuzhka,..
Health authorities in Bulgaria have decided to introduce loosening of some of the restrictive measures against the spread of the coronavirus . From as tomorrow (April 24), in-person training in educational centers at a physical distance of at least 1.5..
The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church is expecting to receive clear guidelines from this country’s Police and the National Operational Headquarters for Combating Covid-19 regarding the church services during the forthcoming Palm Sunday and..
The Catholic Christian world celebrates Palm Sunday today. In the Bulgarian town of Rakovski, where the largest Catholic community in Bulgaria lives, this year willow twigs were not distributed to the laymen by the clergymen but people carried them..
Total number of Covid-19 cases in Bulgaria rise to 675 6 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Bulgaria by 5 pm on Sunday, of which 4 cases were registered in Sofia and 2 in Stara Zagora district, the National Crisis..
The Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria mark today one of the biggest Christian feasts- the Entry of Christ to Jerusalem, also known as Palm Sunday. Over 367,000 Bulgarians, of whom 283,000 are women, celebrate their name day today. For the first time..
