Persecution of Bulgarian Pentecostals

Early Bulgarian Pentecostals saw extraordinary development while persisting incredible mistreatment. Nicholas Nikoloff composed a record of the Bulgarian devotees’ profound confidence and enduring in the July 9, 1932, issue of the Pentecostal Evangel.

Nikoloff was personally acquainted with the subject of his article. He served as general administrator of the Union of Fervent Pentecostal Temples in Bulgaria from 1928 until 1931, when he moved to the United States.

“The striking thing in Bulgaria is the considerable otherworldly appetite of the villagers,” Nikoloff composed. Wonders were regular, as indicated by Nikoloff, and “a portion of the adherents have a genuine endowment of recuperating.”

Bulgarians fanned the Pentecostal fire by distributed two periodicals and various tracts, which they dispersed broadly. Various Bulgarian youngsters got formal religious training at a Pentecostal Holy book school in Danzig, and others took neighborhood evening Scripture courses.

This Pentecostal advancement pulled in the consideration of government authorities and neighborhood religious pioneers, who attempted to subdue the developing development.

Nikoloff related, “The professors were extremely aggrieved. Some were detained. A large portion of them were captured, taken through the roads and individuals made fun of them. Others were prohibited to try and ask in their own particular homes, and undermined seriously by certain neighborhood powers.”

In spite of these challenges, Nikoloff reported that “God gave triumph and freedom was allowed.” This acknowledgement was increased in a few groups in light of healings of youngsters who were devil had or faltering. Pentecostals kept on growwing and, by World War II, constituted the greater part of Protestants in Bulgaria.