Bulgaria's church: Bulgaria's other crisisThe church is faced with a choice of a new leader from a list of three metropolitans, two of which were agents of the secret police (The Economist)
Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria, Eminent Orthodox Church Leader, Dies at 98The oldest leader of the world's unruly family of fully independent Orthodox Churches was the only patriarch to survive both the Communist era and the post-Communist government's attempt to oust him (RIA Novosti)
Mysterious Bones May Belong to John the BaptistNew radiocarbon dating of the collagen in one of the bones pegs its age to the early first century (LiveScience)