Bulgaria

  • Pomaks send mixed messages to survive

    Posted: Nov 4, 2008

    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.

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  • Muslim hears truth about Jesus

    Posted: Aug 13, 2008

    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.

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  • Media That Matters

    Posted: May 5, 2006

    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.

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