Albania's Orthodox Church has elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, ...

Two mass graves containing the remains of executed individuals from the Greek Civil War have been discovered in Thessaloniki.

A country once called the "North Korea of Europe" transformed their communist past by repurposing bunkers into things like ...

The Truman Doctrine was crucial for Greece to avoid falling into the Soviet influence sphere while the country was ravaged by the Civil War ...

21 trip to Albania was the Holy Father’s encounter with an 85 year-old Franciscan Stigmatine nun, who recalled witnessing to the faith in the midst of the Communist regime. TIRANA, Albania: Among the ...

Travellers won’t be in the dark for much longer, thanks to Albania’s irresistible blend of authenticity (it was a Communist country until 1991) and affordability. Tourism in this tiny country ...

Nazmi Rrahmani, one of the first Kosovo Albanian writers to have his works published in isolated communist-era Albania, looks back on a career marked by struggles and strange surprises. “You on ...

“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 ...

The creation of a religious state in Albania would have been unimaginable during the four decade communist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha who banned religion outright and persecuted clerics and priests.

Photo: LSA. From his detention cell ... calling him “filth” and was behaving towards him in the style of the Communist-era state security service. His claims were republished by pro-government ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Thanin Kraivichien, an anti-communist judge who became Thailand’s prime minister after a 1976 military coup but was ousted by another coup a year later because of his hard-line ...