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 ...

This proposal deserves attention not only for its significance within Albania but also for its intriguing global implications amid a world fraught with rising religious and ideological tensions.

There have also been restrictions on freedom of assembly, religion and expression for ethnic Greeks. More serious, however, are the actions of the Albanian police and secret service in the south ...

Enver Hoxha had criminalised all forms of religion and Father Kurti paid the ultimate price for disobeying a totalitarian state that has often been compared to today's North Korea. Now Albania ...

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 ...

The 10-hectare patch of land in Albania’s capital will have its own passport, borders, and administration governing religious issues, without Tirana’s involvement. Albania is roughly 50% ...