Important Bulgarian Books

Haralan Popov. Bulgarska Golgota. Sofia: Ab Publishing House, 2005.
English title: Bulgarian Golgotha. First edition in Bulgarian. The book was originally published in 1980 in Grand Rapids under the title Tortured for the Faith. It tells the story of one of the fifteen Bulgarian pastors of the infamous Pastoral Trial of 1948-1949 which took place in Bulgaria. During the trial, evangelical ministers were sentenced to years in maximum security prisons for allegedly serving as spies for various western governments. Pastor Haralan Popov spent over thirteen years in various prison facilities across Bulgaria, many of them were at the notorious Belene Death Camp located on an island in the middle of the Danube River.

Ivan Zarev. Istoria na ewangelskite petdesiatni carkvi v Bulgaria 1920-1989. Sofia, 1993.
English title: History of the Evangelical Pentecostal Churches in Bulgaria 1920-1989. The author served as pastor and president of the Union of Pentecostal Churches in Bulgaria during the time of the Communist Regime. This publication is the first attempt to provide a historical overview of the Bulgarian Pentecostal Movement published in the Bulgarian vernacular after the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Mitko Mattev. Na Slovoto Ti upovah … Sofia: ORA Bulgaria, 1993.
English title: Your Word I Trusted. First edition in Bulgarian. The book tells the story of one of the fifteen Bulgarian pastors of the infamous Pastoral Trial of 1948-1949 which took place in Bulgaria. During the trial evangelical ministers were sentenced to years in maximum security prisons for allegedly serving as spies for various western governments. Pastor Mitko Mateev spent over four years in various prison facilities across Bulgaria, many of them were at the notorious Belene Death Camp located on an island in the middle of the Danube River.

Hristo Kulichev ed., Dimitar Furnadjiev, Gerasim Popov, Todor Shopov, Vladimir Todorv-Hindalov. Vestiteli na istinata. 2ed. Bulgarsko Bibleisko Druzhestvo, 1994.
English title: Heralds of the Truth: A History of the Evangelical Churches in Bulgaria.
The book is, by far the most comprehensive historical overview of the Bulgarian Evangelist Movement available in the Bulgarian vernacular. It was combined by Bulgarian evangelical pastors prior to the establishment of the Communist Regime in 1944 and reedited after the Fall of the Berlin Wall. The editor, Pastor Hristo Kulichev, is one of the Bulgarian heroes of the evangelical faith who survived persecution for his faith by the Regime to tell a story that needs to be remembered by future generations.

Pavel Ignatov, Bezkravnoto gonenie na carkvata. Sofia: Lik, 2004
English title: The Bloodless Persecution of the Church.
The author has served as a pastor for the Central Church of God in Sofia and a head presbyter of the Church of God in Bulgaria since 1982. This is his first book which overviews the roots of the Bulgarian Protestant movement, follows through the establishment of the first Pentecostal churches in Bulgaria in 1920 and continues with the persecution of the underground Church of God in Bulgaria during the Communist Regime (1944-1989) and spiritual revival in Bulgaria which followed in the early years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

Pavel Ignatov, Problemi na evangelizma (Chast 1). Sofia: Lik, 2006
English title: Problems of Evangelism (Part 1)
The author has served as a pastor for the Central Church of God in Sofia and a head presbyter of the Church of God in Bulgaria since 1982. This is his second book which deals with the roots of Protestantism in the Bulgarian lands and follows the history of the contemporary Bulgarian evangelical movement through the establishment of the Communist Regime in Bulgaria in 1944.

Mladen Mladenov, Epizod na viarata. Sofia: Maranatha, 2002.
English title: Episode of Faith.
This is an autobiography of Bulgarian Pentecostal pastor Mladen Mladenov. The book tells the story of his life, salvific experience, calling to ministry and his exile for preaching the Gospel. The author chooses short stories from each period of his life to convey his personal experience as a Christian believer and minister during and after the Communist Regime in Bulgaria (1944-1989). The book concludes with several devotions that have become stepping stones in the ministry of Pastor Mladenov.