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 ...

TIRANA, Jan 25 (Reuters) - 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 ...

When Israeli singer Yuval Raphael represents her country at the Eurovision Song Contest in May, there will be at least one ...

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 Minister Edi ...

more than 400 parishes were reopened and several new churches were built to support the faith and piety of Albania’s Orthodox communities in the predominantly Muslim nation. Born on Nov. 4 ...

Anastasios played a key role in reviving the church in Albania, an independent branch ... fall of the communist regime which had ruled the Muslim-majority country for decades.

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 ...

Holocaust Memorial Day is a day worthy of international attention and observance, James Crawford, director of Lakewood Public ...

He emphasizes that the emergence of Holocaust museums in Muslim-majority countries ... the “Besa Museum” under construction in Tirana, Albania, celebrates the Albanian moral code of ...

Orthodox believers in Albania make up about 7% of the 2.4 million population, although the church says the actual number is higher. The tiny Western Balkan country is about half Muslim ...

Half the population of the tiny Western Balkan country identifies as Muslim, with Orthodox and Catholic Christians making up much of the remainder. The Albanian Orthodox Church will elect ...

Sabina Nessa's killer Koci Selamaj told his dad he wants to fly home to Albania to serve his sentence, but needs to finish ...