SOFIA, Bulgaria, May 25 -- Pope John Paul II made a pilgrimage to one of Bulgaria's holiest sites today, visiting a 1,000-year-old monastery in the southern town of Rila in an effort to end a ...

STORY: The Bachkovo Monastery is located in the Rhodope Mountains and on the tentative list of UNESCO world heritage sites, and each year on Easter Monday worshippers gather to take part in a ...

Bulgaria's Interior Minister Rumen Petkov will leave for Greece on Tuesday to be a guest for the holiday of the Bulgarian "Sveti Georgi Zograf" monastery in Sveta Gora (Holy Mount). The Bulgarian ...

Bulgaria's Rila Monastery opened Saturday its church-historic museum after eight months of renovation works. The precious collection, has been extended and some of the exhibits were restored, ...

Rila Monastery was founded in the 10th century by St John of Rila, a hermit canonized by the Orthodox Church. His ascetic dwelling and tomb became a holy site and were transformed into a monastic ...

Rila Monastery is regarded as one of Bulgaria’s most important cultural, historical and architectural monuments, and contributed greatly to the preservation of Bulgarian culture and heritage during ...

An Early Christian rock monastery in Northeast Bulgaria, which according to some historians andarchaeologists is the oldest of its kind in Europe, has been revived for the first time since the ...

Mountain views, beautiful coloured frescos and a fortress-like complex. Postcards explores Bulgaria's magnificent Rila Monastery, a spiritual centre for more than 1,000 years. Founded in the 10th ...