All forms of religion were banned in Albania for 23 years starting in 1967, when the country was completely isolated from the ...

They argue that emotionally, Albanians have always connected with the Catholic religion, but they remained in hiding as “crypto-Catholics” and practiced Catholicism only in their personal spaces of ...

Catholic and other churches. Joan is the sixth head of the Albanian Orthodox Church. According to the 2023 census, Orthodox Christians in Albania make up about 7% of the country’s 2.4 million ...