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 ...
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 ...
Albania's prime minister has revealed plans to establish a microstate for Sufi Muslims within the country's capital, Tirana. At the UN General Assembly last week, Prime Minister Edi Rama said the ...
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 ...
A Turkish brand of Islam now dominates the country’s religious institutions, as local Muslims struggle to find their own spiritual path. This post is also available in this language: Bos/Hrv/Srp Bamir ...