Addressing a traditional Christmas reception hosted by the Government Office for Religious Communities, its head Drago Čepar said that the year dedicated to Protestant reformer Primož Trubar had encouraged ecumenism and interfaith cooperation. Representatives of religious communities living in Slove...

Slovenia is celebrating Reformation Day on 31 October, remembering a turbulent yet culturally fecund period in the 16th century that produced the first book written in the Slovenian language and provided a key point of reference for Slovenian nation building centuries later.

On 31 October...

President Danilo Türk addressed on Thursday the national ceremony on the eve of Reformation Day, stressing that present-day Slovenia needed reformers and their spirit to raise its morals and develop a responsible attitude toward the state and the rule of law.

Türk underlined in his speech...

Reformation Day, a national holiday marking a 50-year period in the 16th century that had a profound impact on Slovenian culture, is observed on 31 October. This year it coincides with the 500th birth anniversary of the author of the first book in Slovenian, protestant priest Primoz Trubar.

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The 32 members of New Hope, who come from five churches in California, will again return to Slovenia for the fifth time.  This year's tour, which will be from October 19th to 30th, is notable in the fact that 15 Slovenes will be part of the production. 

The cast of New Hope is comprise...

Ljubljana, 20 September 2008 - The 18th European Heritage Days got underway on Saturday in Raščica, the hometown of Primož Trubar (1508-1586). Launching the event, devoted this year to one of the founders of the Slovenian written language, President Danilo Türk labelled it "an important project, one...

This year's European Heritage Days in Slovenia will be dedicated to Primož Trubar, marking the 500th anniversary of birth of this Protestant reformer who wrote and published the first Slovenian book in 1550. The opening ceremony dubbed "Primož Trubar and His Time" will be held on Saturday in his hom...