Sofia News Agency, Bulgaria
March 4 2005
Bulgarian Clergy Blesses NATO Headquarters
Politics: 4 March 2005, Friday.
Bulgarian delegation consisting of clergymen from various confessions
of Bulgaria landed on a special visit at the Brussels headquarters of
NATO on Friday.
Metropolitan bishops of Varna and Veliko Tarnovo – Kiril and
Grigorii, the director of Supreme Muslim Institute Mustafa Hadji,
Apostolic Bishop Hristo Proykov, the head of Armenian Apostolic
Church in Bulgaria Rupen Krikoryan, the chairman of Central Israeli
Spiritual Council Robert Djerassi, the chief of Union of Evangelistic
Churches Pastor Viktor Varchev, and Pastor Vassil Vassilev, who is
chairing the United Evangelic Alliance.
The visit has marked a unique event of consecrating the NATO offices
of Bulgaria in Brussels, as that is the first ever visit of Bulgarian
clergymen at the headquarters of the Alliance, nearly a year after
Bulgaria became its full-fledged member.
The delegates met with NATO officers, including with Jamie Shea, NATO
Deputy Assistant Secretary General for External Relations, who
stressed on the important public role of clergy for the formation of
public opinion.