Archaeologists and restorers from Bulgaria’s National Museum of History have identified construction materials from the 9th century AD Great Basilica in Pliska, capital of the First Bulgarian Empire (632/680-1018 AD) between 680 and 893 AD, which were scattered all over Northeast Bulgaria by the Ottoman Turkish authorities in the 19th century during the construction of the Ruse-Varna Railway.
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On December 13, 2015, the 28th Sunday after Pentecost and the commemoration day of St. Andrew-the-First-Called, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR) and chairman of the Commission on Old Believer parishes and cooperation with the Old Believer community, celebrated Divine Liturgy at the Church of the Protecting Veil in Rubtsovo, at which the Patriarchal Center of the Old Russian Liturgical Tradition operates.
In compliance with the decision of the Holy Synod, a delegation of the Moscow Patriarchate took part in a joint conference of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), which was held in Munich on 10-11 December 2015, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
The Romanian Orthodox Church celebrated on Monday December 7 the martyr St. Philotheia of Curtea de Argeş. Along with other places of worship protected by her, St. Philotheia is also the spiritual protector of the Orthodox Theological Seminary of Pasărea Monastery in Ilfov County.
Regavim seeks to prevent construction work performed by Israeli Arabs and Palestinians without permits.