Albania’s Orthodox Church has elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the fall of communism in 1990.

Dikshu Kukreja, the Honorary Consul General of Albania to India and head of the architecture firm CP Kukreja, which is part ...

"The whole world will be able to see the light of the Bektashis." The creation of a religious state in Albania would have been unimaginable during the four decade communist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha ...

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The Konrad Adenauer Foundation commissioned a study on religious issues. Albania is the only country in the world where religion has ever been banned by law. For nearly a quarter of a century, the ...

The Marxist regime that ruled Albania from 1946 to 1991 outlawed all religions in 1967 — including Judaism — and reviled Israel as the “little devil” of the United States. But Albania is ...

The Albanian religious leader said the goal of this state "will be the organisation and defence of the Bektashis around the world." He said the new state would be governed by the Sufi religious ...

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 ...

In Albania's capital, Baba Mondi envisions a Vatican-like state for his Bektashi faith on a tiny scrap of land that would serve as a model for love and tolerance. Last year, Albanian Prime ...

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 ...