TIRANA, Albania (AP) - Pope Francis has arrived in Albania on his first European trip, designed to highlight the Balkan nation's path from a brutal communist state where religion was banned to a model ...

DERVEN, Albania (AP) — The one-room, stone church of St. Nicholas has sat on the top of a hill here since the 16th century, destroyed three times and rebuilt in a testament to the Catholic presence in ...

Father Giovanni Fausti SJ, a martyr in Soviet-era Albania. (Credit: GesuitiNews, Provincia d’Italia della Compagnia di Gesù.) Listen By conventional standards, the fact that around 20,000 people ...

The nation of Albania has one of Europe’s most in­triguing religious landscapes. Four major groups are usually identified: Catholic and Orthodox Chris­tians, Sunni Muslims, and Bek­tashis. Although ...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama wants to establish a sovereign Muslim mini-state within his country based on the model of the Vatican. It would be created in Albania's capital Tirana and run by the ...