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About church honors and the forgiveness of sins

The concept of the classical era “archon” (chief, leader, chief) created the last ferment among the Orthodox Bulgarian people. In Classical Greece, the service of strategists immediately referred us to the princes / archons of ancient Greece, Themistocles, Aristides, and Cimon, the earliest examples of strategists who were both political leaders and generals. Pericles was very often chosen as a strategist during his political career, 443-429. BC From 501, a new rule was introduced for the selection of strategists, who were elected annually, one from each phyla. All ten elected had equal status: at the Marathon in 490 (according to Herodotus) the leadership was decided by a vote and each presided on a daily rotation as a polemarch – supreme commander, but from 496 the polemarch, like the other archons were chosen by lot.

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The Forgotten Holocaust

The great humanitarian act – the rescue of the 150,000 Bulgarian Roma from the “fascist death camps”, together with the 50,000 Bulgarian citizens of Jewish origin in 1943, still needs to be further clarified and analyzed.

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UN chief says race to reach SDGs ‘can and must’ be turned around 

The COVID pandemic has taken four million lives, devastated the global economy, pushed a further 124 million people into extreme poverty and continues to inflict profound suffering – dramatically impacting progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the UN chief said on Tuesday at a key international forum. 

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