SOFIA, Bulgaria — 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. Neophyte, who became patriarch in 2013, was the first elected head of the Bulgarian church after … Read more
December 24, 2023 at 5:54 p.m. EST The Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the top Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land, as he arrives at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem West Bank, on, Sunday, Dec. 24. (Heidi Levine/for The Washington Post)Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave BETHLEHEM, West Bank — On Christmas … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave David Kirke’s old chums found the peaceful circumstances of his death last month — in bed, at age 78 — paradoxical. “He could have been killed at least 20 or 30 times many years ago,” his friend Edward Hulton said. For instance, on April Fools’ Day in … Read more