site.btaBTA Director General Valchev: "Media Should Spread Knowledge of Enduring Values"

"We, the media, are the intermediary that is supposed to spread knowledge about the enduring values, beyond petty human concerns," Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) Director General Kiril Valchev said here on Wednesday, welcoming the participants in the 17th World Meeting of Bulgarian Media which is taking place in Israel from November 1 to 3.

"We must suppress sin and must parade the virtues: chastity, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, humility… We must keep out of our domain aerial toll-houses like idle talk, falsehood, defamation, denigration, hatred, spite and callousness," Valchev said in his speech. 

He pointed out that the meeting in the Holy Land should help Bulgarian media spread three important pieces of knowledge. The first piece is about the salvation of Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust 80 years ago and about mourning and remembering those Jews in the rest of the world who were not saved. "The second piece is about the age-long presence of the Bulgarians' spirit in this City of God, which has been drawing pilgrims from the Bulgarian lands since as long ago as the Ottoman domination, eager to attain the most sublime expression of being an Eastern Orthodox Christian. We, the Bulgarian media, can help the Bulgarian Orthodox Church together with the Bulgarian State re-establish our presence here," the BTA Director General pointed out. "But the most important knowledge that the media should bring from the Holy Land to the Bulgarians is about what is really important in human life - peace and love," he added.