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 ...
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 ...
expressing a combination of national and religious identity. According to the priest and his supporters, this return to Christianity is an attempt to strengthen Albanian identity in opposition to ...
At the church where the baptisms took place, nationalist emblems jostle with religious iconography. The double-headed eagle symbol of Albania decorates the steeple and also a screen behind the altar.
Gëzim Kelmendi, head of the Fjala ne Debat Plus party, spoke about the topic of Kosovo between nation and religion. He said that it took 700 years for someone to understand that "we are not Albanian ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A view of the TikTok app logo, in Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File) Updated [hour ...