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

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Orthodox Church on Saturday held an enthronement ceremony for its new Archbishop Joan, who ...

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 ...

Orthodox Easter is usually at least a week later than Catholic Easter. When Easter arrives, many Albanians remember the dark days of Communism, when Easter was banned. A man could literally go to “the ...

It runs, like titanium fiber, through the sinew of the characters in her second novel, which, like her debut, "Brass," is set ...

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 ...

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, ...

Ksamil’s shoreline is now carpeted with sun loungers but, with more development in the pipeline, alarm bells are ringing for ...

Albania’s Orthodox Church has held an inauguration ... world and the communists seized the property of Islamic, Orthodox, Catholic and other churches. Joan, whose family was persecuted by ...

Albania's Orthodox Church has enthroned new Archbishop Ioannis of Tirana, Durrës, and All Albania, the newly elected primate ...

Albania’s religious leaders ... outside world and the communists seized the property of Islamic, Orthodox, Catholic and other churches. Joan, whose family was persecuted by the communists ...