It is difficult to describe the enthusiasm and inspiration with which the believers accepted the challenges of the new freedom. Soon the scales were reversed to the side of religious intolerance, manifested by the restriction and limitation of religious freedom. I would like to describe some of the features of the present situation in the area of religious freedom in Bulgaria. The campaign in the mass media Since 1993 the evangelical churches have been targeted by the mass media in a fierce campaign of intolerance. This has been done under the pretext of fighting against the sects.
Negative publicity is directed towards all non-Orthodox Christian denominations.
It places the traditional Protestant denominations, such as Baptists, Methodists, Congregationalists, Assemblies of God, Lutherans and Adventists, on the same level with all new non-Christian cults penetrating into the country. I would like to quote only a few lines from articles in some of the newspapers. We should not be blind to the invasion of sects. This article gave a list of groups including Baptists, Lutherans, Congregationalists, Adventists, etc. Sects are a smoldering bomb in the shadow.