Tag: Bulgaria
Pomaks send mixed messages to survive
When a Pomak says no, he shakes his head up and down; when he says yes, he shakes his head back and forth. This cultural anomaly is not just a random characteristic–it has a history that goes back to the very core of Pomak identity.
Muslim hears truth about Jesus
I’d never been in a mosque before. As our host and village leader, Vladimer*, ushered us towards the door, I was skeptical that we would make it in past the elderly grandmas who guarded the entryway, since we had no head coverings and were obviously foreigners.
Media That Matters
In March of this year members of the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) regional media team took a group of 4 volunteers to a remote, mountainous region of Bulgaria to find and record the Pomak people group.
