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Bulgaria is home to 920 000 Muslims and there are 38 million Muslims living in the EU according to a new report compiled by Pew Research.
The report entitled ‘Mapping the Global Muslim Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Muslim Population’ was released Thursday. It revealed that Muslims make up 12,2 % of the country’s population, 10-15% of them are Shia Muslims.
Overall Muslims constitute about 5% of Europe’s population. It was also made clear that most European Muslims live in Eastern and Central Europe.
The country with the largest Muslim population in Europe is Russia, with more than 16 million Muslims, meaning that more than four in 10 European Muslims live in Russia.
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Muslims worldwide and in Bulgaria celebrate Ramazan Bayramı also known as Eid al-Fitr - one of the two major holidays in Islam
A high percentage of Europeans have negative feelings towards Muslims and immigrants, writes Weiss magazine, citing a large-scale sociological survey in eight European countries.
Today is the first day of the Holy month - Ramadan.
Nearly half of Austrians are of the opinion that Muslims should not have the same rights as them, according to a study released yesterday by the University of Salzburg, a few days before the parliamentary elections.
Calls for Muslims to be attacked are spreading in Belgium, local media reported.
Italian police on Thursday arrested five Tunisians as part of what they said was a major operation against suspected supporters of Islamist terrorism in central and southern Italy, reported Reuters.
In a concerning turn of events, six children were recently taken out of Bulgaria without the knowledge or consent of one of the parenst, just a month after the country's admission to the air Schengen zone
Bulgaria has updated its immunization calendar, granting general practitioners the authority to administer whooping cough (pertussis) vaccines to newborns two weeks earlier than before, starting at six weeks after birth
Recent data released by the National Statistical Institute reveals significant shifts in the population rankings of Bulgaria's municipalities, with Plovdiv emerging as the new second most populous municipality, surpassing Varna
In a significant move that reverberates across the global vaccination landscape, pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has announced a worldwide recall of its COVID-19 vaccine
Eurostat, the European Union's statistics agency, unveiled alarming findings regarding Bulgaria's COVID-19 mortality rates in 2021, shedding light on the nation's sobering position atop the EU's death rate chart
As Bulgarian Railways (BDZ) recently hiked ticket prices, prompting scrutiny into the quality of service, a revealing glimpse into the state of the nation's railway infrastructure emerges
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