In Tirana, visitors can expect the same warm hospitality, as locals are eager to show off their hospitality chops as they ...

During WWII, Albania defied the Nazis, sheltering Jews and preserving its tradition of hospitality. Discover how this ...

Long overlooked by historians, the rescue of hundreds of Jews in the largely Muslim nation is connected to a local honor system. TIRANA, Albania (JTA) — Most anywhere else in Nazi-occupied ...

Albania's prime minister has revealed plans to establish a microstate for Sufi Muslims within the country's capital, Tirana. At the UN General Assembly last week, Prime Minister Edi Rama said the ...

After being sealed off from the outside world for decades and experiencing a mass exodus, Albania is leaning into its ...

A pollster says public support for Israel could be dropping in a country that is opening two new Jewish museums. TIRANA, Albania (JTA) — Hidden behind a wooden gate in Tirana’s Toptani ...

Once a Muslim-majority nation, Kosovo is witnessing a quiet but growing movement of Albanians converting to Catholicism. Advocates of the shift argue they are reclaiming their ancestral faith, once ...

Not only Baba Mondi, the Albanian Prime Minister uncovered his plans last year to establish a sovereign Muslim smaller state within the country's borders. "This state will have neither police ...

According to the 2023 census, Orthodox Christians in Albania make up about 7% of the country’s 2.4 million population, although the church says the actual number is higher. Half the population of the ...

Turkey is set to ratify military agreements with three Balkan countries neighboring with Greece: Albania, North Macedonia and Kosovo.

Albania’s Orthodox Church has elected Joan ... Half the population of the Western Balkan country identifies as Muslim, with Orthodox and Catholic Christians making up much of the remainder.