{"id":571537,"date":"2026-05-12T11:35:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=571537"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:35:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:35:58","slug":"bulgaria-restoration-rural-churches-monasteries-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/bulgaria-restoration-rural-churches-monasteries-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgaria allocates \u20ac62.5 million for restoration of rural churches and monasteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Bulgarian state will invest \u20ac62.5 million in restoring churches and monasteries in the country\u2019s rural areas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzh.government.bg\/bg\/press-center\/novini\/ministr-hristanov-prez-vekovete-hramovete-sa-bili\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement<\/a> was made by Bulgaria&#8217;s Minister of Agriculture Ivan Hristanov at the Eleshnitsa Monastery of the Holy Virgin Mary, located near the village of Eleshnitsa in the Sofia region.<\/p>\n<p>The funds are intended to support the protection of cultural and spiritual heritage and to improve living conditions in sparsely populated rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Ivan Hristanov highlighted the Church&#8217;s role in preserving social cohesion in areas affected by depopulation.<\/p>\n<p>The funding comes from the European Union and is part of the 2023\u20132027 Strategic Plan for the development of agriculture and rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Facebook \/ Sorin Oni\u0219or<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BasilicaNews\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-495171\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-889x148.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"889\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-889x148.gif 889w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-1024x171.gif 1024w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-1536x256.gif 1536w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-2048x341.gif 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bulgarian state will invest \u20ac62.5 million in restoring churches and monasteries in the country\u2019s rural areas. The announcement was made by Bulgaria&#8217;s Minister of Agriculture Ivan Hristanov at the Eleshnitsa Monastery of the Holy Virgin Mary, located near the village of Eleshnitsa in the Sofia region. The funds are intended to support the protection&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":571434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19020,37479,37477,37386,37478,37480],"class_list":["post-571537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-bulgaria-en","tag-bulgarian-orthodox-heritage","tag-churches-restoration","tag-eu-funding","tag-rural-churches-bulgaria","tag-rural-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}