BULGARIA
(See also Bulgarian [Language])
covered bridge of Lovech: g 1/08 22-23
Europe’s oldest tree: g86 5/8 31
head-shaking gesture: yb15 71
maps: w10 9/15 30-31; g 6/09 16
medicine:
seminar on alternatives to blood transfusion (1998): g98 11/22 29
Plovdiv: g 6/09 16-18
religion:
conversion to “Christianity” (ninth century): g94 10/22 21
Jehovah’s Witnesses
annual report: yb91 53
branch office:
Sofia (2004): w25.08 29-30; yb06 12, 26
branch office having oversight:
Romania (Cluj-Napoca, 1920): yb06 76
Romania (Cluj-Napoca, 1924): yb96 72
children:
girl succeeds in attending convention: yb97 58-59
sings Kingdom songs to class: w96 2/1 32
congregations: w10 9/15 31
conventions: w10 9/15 30, 32; g93 12/22 12
attended elsewhere: g97 2/22 27; g92 4/22 31; yb91 24; g91 1/8 12
early witnessing: jv 430, 432-433
field ministry:
Czech Witnesses assist: yb00 200-201
growth: w25.08 29-30; w11 6/1 30
Kingdom Halls: km 5/03 4-5; km 9/99 5; yb91 53
legal matters:
corporation (1938): g 6/09 18
expelled missionaries upheld by European Court of Human Rights (2003-2004): yb05 10; yb04 18
legal recognition (1991): w25.08 29; jv 505, 697; g92 4/22 31; g91 12/22 6
legal registration revoked (1994): w25.08 29; g 4/10 12
legal reregistration (1998): w25.08 29; g 4/10 12; yb00 24; km 2/99 2
military exemption (2001): kr 152; yb02 13
mob attack at Kingdom Hall (2011): yb12 35-36
persons:
Dimitrova, Zoya: w11 6/1 28-31
Kostadinov, Plamen and Yanita: g 4/10 10-12
Poetzinger, Martin: jv 290
Schmidt, Alfred and Grete: w89 2/1 25-26
Stefanov, Ivailo: kr 152
Wertholz, Heinz and Marianne: w25.08 27-30
places:
Gurkovo: yb13 67-69
Kazanlak: w10 9/15 30-31
Plovdiv: g 6/09 18
Sandanski: w10 9/15 30-31
Silistra: w10 9/15 30-32
publications:
Bible New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures: w11 6/1 31; w10 9/15 32; w07 11/1 20
public relations brochure: yb96 18-19
supplied despite ban: yb09 188-189
service experiences: w94 6/1 6
abandoned by father when six: w12 10/1 28-29
baptized and auxiliary pioneers despite disabling neuropathy: yb11 64-65
campaign (2009): w10 9/15 30-32
drug dealer: w12 10/1 28-29
mother and daughters: w10 9/15 31
mother helped to express love: ijwex article 2
pastor learns truth from magazines on train: yb13 67-69
prays for church officials to come: yb12 76-77
priest confirms God’s name: yb05 60
prisoners: yb08 59-60
religious group dissolves: yb12 76-77
schoolteacher praises Young People Ask book and Witness students: g 9/10 32
vehicles waiting at border: yb17 74-75
youth on park bench: w10 9/15 31
serving where need is greater: ijwex article 18; w10 9/15 30-32
visit by G. W. Jackson: w10 9/15 32