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 ...

Father Bendo and his wife, Georgia, moved their family from Albania to Lewiston, where they've received a warm and supportive ...

The churches using the Byzantine liturgy include the Albanian, Belarussian ... Today there exists in Egypt the Coptic rite which is Orthodox and the Coptic rite that is loyal to the Bishop ...

He has spoken with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, a leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church, as well as a close aide of Pope Francis - Secretary of State of the Holy See, Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

The remnants of this shift from a Slavic to an Albanian ethnicity sometimes show up in strange phenomena. Many frescoes in Serb Christian Orthodox churches and monasteries at KosMet have been ...

“His Grace, Archbishop Anastasios, was the rebuilder and revitalizer of the Albanian Orthodox Church, which was literally raised from the ruins after the fall of the atheist regime,” the ...

The churches are small, but full of young and energetic believers ... Today, Albania's population is 70 percent Muslim, 20 percent Albanian Orthodox, and 10 percent Roman Catholic, according to U.S.

Orthodox Christmas is a national holiday in Kosovo, and churches hold midnight services by candle light ... There is a national park nearby in the Rugova mountains, also known as the “Albanian Alps,” ...

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One morning in October of 2023, Miami police were called to remove a “squatter” who had, or so the ecclesiastical complainants claimed, taken up illegal residence in one of South Florida’s oldest ...

Archbishop Elpidophoros, who leads the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America visited New Orleans Friday, bringing a message ...