PLOVDIV, Bulgaria — A small boy shimmies up a utility pole, gingerly grabs an insulated cable pulsing with high voltage and connects it to his home: a cube of corrugated iron sheets in Bulgaria’s ...
When Katalin Forray arrived at the University of Pécs to set up Hungary’s first Gypsy-studies department, she quickly discovered a big problem. The department was supposed In this article, the terms ...
Stolipinovo, located in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, is considered the largest Roma neighborhood in Europe — a place filled with ...
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TARGU BUJOR, Romania — Tired of reading soap opera subtitles to his wife while watching TV, Costel Pitigoi gave her an order: Learn to read them yourself. So Maria Pitigoi joined 29 other women in ...
This city is full of stark, Soviet-era housing blocks, and the grimmest among them — gray towers of one-room apartments with communal bathrooms and no hot water — are given over to the Roma population ...
Pope Francis listens to men sing during a meeting with Italy’s Roma, Sinti and Gypsy communities at the Vatican May 9, 2019. (Credit: CNS Photo/Vatican Media via Reuters.) Listen ROME – Few things ...
CHOISY-LE-ROI, France - At age 8, Abel Bot is starting school a bit late. The past few weeks have been a crash course in how to be a schoolboy: how to hold a pencil, to raise a hand in class, to ...