People are silhouetted as they walk in the old town of Plovdiv, ahead of the opening ceremony of Plovdiv as the European Capital of Culture, in Bulgaria, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. Plovdiv is the first ...

A coalition of international press freedom organisations including Index has called for urgent action to push forward ...

Pope Francis greets the crowd as he leads the "Regina Coeli" prayer in Alexander Nevsky Square in Sofia, Bulgaria, on May 5, 2019 (CNS photo/Paul Haring). On his first visit to Bulgaria, Pope Francis ...

The southern Bulgarian city of Plovdiv celebrated its inauguration as a European Capital of Culture with an opening show on January 12. The city shares the honor in 2019 with Matera, Italy. Plovdiv is ...

Over the weekend, my mom visited Bulgaria for a brief time. She was already in Amsterdam, but she made her way to Eastern Europe. She had never been to Bulgaria or a country like this, and I forgot ...

The first thing you notice about Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s 2019 European Capital of Culture, are the so-called cobblestones. These are no genteel cobblestones; the downtown streets are paved with small, ...

Bulgarian weddings are steeped in tradition, each ceremony reflecting the rich cultural heritage of the country ...

Truckee resident Tara Hetz came to Cascade Kitchens and spoke about her organization Mazingira Adventures, a sustainable ...

The designers of the fashion label Chopova Lowena are obsessed with Bulgarian culture. Each of their collections takes inspiration from some aspect of the country’s traditional dress. And their ...

WELLS — Every Saturday this school year, a group of teachers and students have gathered at the Wells Elementary School voluntarily to pursue a particular type of education. The students, ranging in ...

In a emotional ceremony at the close of an anti-Semitism conference in Berlin last year, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy presented his German counterpart, Joschka Fischer, with the yellow ...