Albania is a unique case on a global scale, even in the history of humanity, as the country in which religion was banned by law for almost a quarter of a century, from 1967 to 1990. Even before this ...

Christian converts in Kosovo, where the vast majority of people are Muslim, hope to revive a pre-Islamic past they see as a ...

While many Muslim-majority countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq have been making news for introducing regressive laws and customs, Albania is making waves for the opposite reason.

The fall of communism has brought monumental changes to Albania, long the most isolated and repressed country of the Eastern bloc. During the last four years, the tiny nation has taken significant ...

A generation after the fall of its Communist dictatorship, Albania is starting to uncover evidence of thousands of people executed by the former regime. More than 30 years after his death, the ...

The head of the Orthodox Church of Albania, Archbishop Anastasios, will be airlifted Friday to a hospital in Athens, the Greek defence ministry said as the charismatic 95-year-old religious leader ...