Hack of Hezbollah devices exposes dark corners of Asia supply chains
Tokyo, Japan/Shanghai, China/Taipei, Taiwan Reuters The lethal hack of Hezbollah’s Asian-branded pagers and walkie-talkies has sparked an intense search for the devices’ path, revealing a murky market for older technologies where buyers may have few assurances about what they are getting. While supply chains and distribution channels for higher-margin and newer products are tightly managed, […]
Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church elects a new patriarch with pro-Russian views
Sofia, Bulgaria AP Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church on Sunday elected Daniil, a 52-year-old metropolitan considered to be pro-Russian, as its new leader in a vote that reflected the divisions in the church and wider society since Russia invaded Ukraine more than two years ago. Growing divisions between pro-Russian and anti-Russian factions within the senior clergy began after some […]
Bulgaria: Orthodox Church is electing a new leader and a new relationship with the world
DAVID I KLEIN, of Religion News Service, reports that the next patriarch will likely be remembered for how he addresses modernity and the wider Orthodox world…
Bulgaria holds another snap election, with more instability seen ahead
Sofia, Bulgaria Reuters Bulgarians head to the polls on Sunday for their sixth parliamentary election in three years, but analysts say the vote is unlikely to yield a stable government that can end prolonged political instability and unblock economic reforms. Bulgaria, the poorest member of the European Union, has been plagued by revolving-door governments since […]
Postcards: Greeks walk on fire using faith over fear
ALKIS KONSTANTINIDIS and ALEXANDROS AVRAMIDIS, of Reuters, report from Mavrolefki in Greece…
US, 17 other countries urge Hamas to release hostages, end Gaza crisis
Washington DC, US Reuters The United States and 17 other countries on Thursday issued an appeal for Hamas to release all of its hostages as a pathway to end the crisis in Gaza, but Hamas vowed not to relent to international pressure. “We call for the immediate release of all hostages held by Hamas in […]
Bulgarians line the streets of the capital to bid farewell to Orthodox Patriarch Neophyte
Sofia, Bulgaria AP Bulgarians lined the streets of Sofia on Saturday to bid farewell to the late Orthodox Patriarch Neophyte. The spiritual leader of Bulgaria’s Orthodox Christians died on Wednesday at the age of 78 after a long illness. Hundreds of people, officials and Orthodox Church clergy attend the solemn holy liturgy and funeral service for […]
Bulgarians pay their last respects to the late Orthodox Patriarch
Sofia, Bulgaria AP Thousands of Orthodox Christians from across Bulgaria flocked to Sofia’s main Alexander Nevsky Cathedral on Friday to pay their respects to their late spiritual leader, Patriarch Neophyte, who died Wednesday at the age of 78. Neophyte, who became Patriarch in 2013, was the first head of the Bulgarian church to be chosen after the […]
Lifestory: Patriarch Neophyte I of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church dead at 78
DAVID I KLEIN, of Religion News Service, reports that a soft-spoken theologian, Neophyte I was a critic of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…
Neophyte, Patriarch of Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church, dies at 78
Sofia, Bulgaria AP Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria, who was the first elected head of the Orthodox Church in the post-communist Balkan country, died at a hospital in Sofia. He was 78. The Orthodox Holy Synod said Wednesday in a statement that the Patriarch had been hospitalized for four months for lung ailments. Clergymen and the […]