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 ...

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TIRANA - Albania will create a sovereign Muslim state in Tirana for the Bektashi religious order, along the lines of the Vatican in Rome, to preserve and promote religious tolerance, Prime ...

Thousands of Afghan refugees who worked alongside American soldiers in Afghanistan and underwent a yearslong vetting process ...

Pope Francis meeting with Haxhi Baba Edmond Brahimaj of the Muslim Bektashi community and Rabbi Yoel Kaplan, Chief Rabbi of Albania, on Jan. 16, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen Did the pope ...

ATHENS - Archbishop Anastasios, head of the Orthodox Church of Albania, died at a hospital in Athens at the age of 95 on ...

Italian judges have blocked prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s scheme to detain migrants in centres in Albania, according to ...

Under Archbishop Anastasios Yannoulatos’ leadership, after the fall of communism, more than 400 parishes were reopened and ...

Anastasios is credited with having revived the Orthodox Church in Muslim-majority Albania after decades of "atheist" rule and fostered peace between Christians and Muslims. The Church on Saturday ...