TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Thousands of Albanians gathered in the capital on Thursday to pay their last respects to Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country’s Orthodox Christian Church after ...

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

16 per cent as Christians, 17 per cent as non-religious and 16 per cent as undeclared. Jennifer at International Living tells MailOnline: ‘Albania suffers from outdated misperceptions.

Christians and Muslims sacrificed everything to protect them,” said Elva Margariti, Albania’s minister of culture, when announcing the Besa Museum earlier this year. “For Albanians this is besa.

Many Albanians in Yugoslavia came to see Albania as a promised land, but Albania’s treatment of ethnic Albanian writers and artists from outside its borders was often brutal. This post is also ...

Christians and Muslims sacrificed everything to protect them,” said Elva Margariti, Albania’s minister of culture. “For Albanians this is BESA; it is a value that we will pass on to our ...

The Bektashi are ranked as the fourth-largest religious community in Albania, after Sunni Muslims, Orthodox Christians, and Catholics. And while the bureaucratic details of the state are still ...