Earlier this month a seven-member Holy Synod unanimously elected Joan, the metropolitan of Korca, in the post left vacant after Anastasios' death in January. Albania’s religious leaders, top officials ...

We saw the Jews as brothers. As religious but liberal Muslims, we were only doing our duty.” This is why when the American ambassador to Albania, Henry Bernstein, arrived in the country in 1934 ...

As part of these efforts, the AASO could help organize Iftar dinners during the celebratory season. Islam is the largest religion in Albania, but large portions of the population fall under different ...

Albania’s religious leaders, top officials and politicians, Orthodox religious leaders from around the world, a Vatican representative and Greece's ministers of defense and social cohesion ...

Albania’s religious leaders, top officials and politicians, Orthodox religious leaders from around the world, a Vatican representative and Greece's ministers of defense and social cohesion ...

Albania’s religious leaders, top officials and politicians, Orthodox religious leaders from around the world, and Greek religious and defense ministers were present at the ceremony. Bishop ...

All forms of religion were banned in Albania for 23 years starting in 1967, when the country was completely isolated from the outside world and the communists seized the property of Islamic, Orthodox, ...

TIRANA, Albania — Albania’s Orthodox Church on Sunday elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the fall ...