Bulgaria's Greek Orthodox Church has called on its government not to let any more Muslim refugees into the country in order to prevent an "invasion," the Yahoo News website reports today (September 26, 2015).
The Balkan EU (European Union) member has largely been bypassed by hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflict and poverty, many of whom set off from Greece through neighboring Macedonia and Serbia towards northern Europe.
But Bulgaria -- which was under Islamic Ottoman rule for five centuries -- has still seen Syrians, Afghans, and Iraqis cross its southeastern border from Turkey.
"We help refugees who have already arrived in our motherland, but the government must absolutely not let more refugees in," the Orthodox Church -- which has 80 percent of the Bulgarian population as its followers -- said on its website. "This is a wave that looks like an invasion."
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