The Washington Post SOFIA, Bulgaria, May 24 -- Pope John Paul II said today that he did not believe claims that Bulgaria was linked to a 1981 attempt to assassinate him, rejecting years of speculation that the Balkan state had worked with Turkish gunman
CNN SOFIA, Bulgaria --Pope John Paul has absolved Bulgaria of any link to the assassination attempt on him in 1981, the Vatican has said.
BBC News Service Pope John Paul II has moved to allay suspicions about the 1981 attempt on his life, saying in Sofia that he had never believed there was a Bulgarian plot behind it.
The Associated Press By WILLIAM J.
After his meeting with Bulgaria’s distinguished intellectuals in the evening of May 24, Pope John Paul II retired to the building of the Apostolic Nunciature. The Pope leaves for the Rila Monastery by a helicopter from the Sofia airport in the morning of
The Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox church Maxim and Pope John Paul II agreed that the dialogue between the Catholic and Orthodox church should be the main goal of all Christians. Patriarch Maxim welcomed Pope John Paul II to Bulgaria at the Holy Syno
Pope John Paul II denied the so-called “Bulgarian connection” in the assassination attempt on his life in 1981 at his meeting with Bulgaria's President Parvanov early on May 24. The Pope assured the President he has never believed in Bulgaria’s involvemen
Bulgaria’s Privatization Agency set USD 4 M minimum price for Incoms Telecom, Pari Daily reported. The Malaysian group CS will participate at the second stage of the tender, the company’s Executive Director in charge of projects in Europe Bisser Dimitrov
Coalition forces seized about 50 people in a raid on a compound suspected of being a sanctuary for al Qaeda and Taliban leaders in southern Afghanistan, U.S.
Hundreds of gunmen loyal to a faction leader opposed to Somalia's transitional government have attacked the home of the interior minister in Mogadishu on Friday.
US military officials believe they have made headway in persuading the Bush administration not to mount a military campaign in Iraq, reports say. The Washington Post quotes senior Pentagon officials as saying that the Joint Chiefs of Staff mounted an "agg
A man has attempted to bomb a night club in Tel Aviv where hundreds of people were partying but was stopped by a security guard, Israeli police say. The attack - in which a suspected Palestinian militant was killed and two other people injured - is the se
Your Holiness, Venerable Metropolitans and Bishops,
Seventeen representatives of the Jewish community in Bulgaria had a meeting with Pope John Paul II in the building of the Apostolic Nunciature in the afternoon of May 24. His Holiness asked whether many Jews were killed during World War II in Bulgaria.
The remarkable writer Yordan Radichkov, welcomed the Pope at the meeting with distinguished intellectuals, artists and scientists with a short speech at Hall 1 of the National Palace of Culture. The writer was on the right side of the stage, about twenty
Bulgaria’s biggest advantage for its NATO bid is the consensus reached among all political parties concerning the necessity for reforms and the final goal – accession in the Euroatlantic community, Rafael Estrella, president of the NATO parliamentary asse
Agriculture Minister Mehmed Dikme and his Deputy Nihat Kabil arrived on May 24 in the Holland town of Harlem for the fifth international fair “Floriade 2002.” The fair, which only occurs every ten years, opened April and is expected to close in October th
During his meeting with His Holiness Pope John Paul II, Bulgaria’s President Georgi Parvanov set forth the issue for the setting up in Rome of a Bulgarian cultural institute, that will do research in the rich cultural and historical relations of Bulgaria
Four temporary medical centres will be open during the Papal visit to Plovdiv. Two doctors and one nurse will be available for first aid at Radio Plovdiv.
Ukraine’s President Leonid Kuchma and Bulgaria’s Vice President Angel Marin stressed the necessity of increasing economic ties between their countries during a meeting Friday. Kuchma said that the work of the joint Ukrainian-Bulgarian Commission on econom
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