After a lifetime of brutal treatment, including walking on burning embers, Bulgaria's last three dancing bears will get to rest their paws at a mountain sanctuary, in an apparent end to the ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Bulgarian) VIOLIN PLAYER AND FOLLOWER OF UNIVERSAL WHITE BROTHERHOOD, JOANA STRATEVA, SAYING: "August 19 is the beginning of the divine year. The spiritual teacher Peter Deunov - or ...

Daily Bruin columnist Christi Carras’ limited dance background consists of bingeing episodes of “So You Think You Can Dance,” grapevining her way through high school show choir and stumbling through ...

A rehabilitation center for retired dancing bears sounds like a typo. Yet this is exactly what the animal rights NGOs Four Paws and Foundation Brigitte Bardot created 13 years ago in Belitsa, Bulgaria ...

Fire dancing, one of the oldest pagan rituals in the Balkans, has defied the persecutions of both Christianity and communism to survive through the millennia. In a trance-like state, locals in ...

RILA MOUNTAINS, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Lilya Ivanova, a 29-year-old Bulgarian psychologist, glows with joy. She has just finished a ritual dance along with some 2,500 white-clad followers of the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Dead Can Dance have released Dionysus, their first record in six years. The album’s title and theme is based on Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and ecstasy, but they haven’t gone EDM. Dead Can Dance ...