Kosovo is heading for early elections Sunday after months of political deadlock and failure to form a government -- the only solution its deeply divided parties could agree on to ...

Following are NCR reader responses to recent news articles, opinion columns and theological essays with letters that have been edited for length and clarity. Christian nationalism conceptually ...

Albania's prime minister accused Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood of "ethnic stereotyping" after she singled out Albanian families in a speech about abuses of the asylum system. Edi Rama criticised ...

On Oct. 6, Albanian Appeals Court Judge Astrit Kalaja was shot inside the Tirana courtroom where he oversaw a property dispute case, according to the International Commission of Jurists. Kalaja died ...

Christian nationalism seeks power, not faith, by excluding religious minorities. Idaho laws increasingly reflect efforts to privilege one narrow Christian ideology. Faith-based freedom weakens when ...

Albania has appointed the world’s first-ever AI government official in hopes of rooting out some of the Balkan state’s long-running corruption. Announced this week by Edi Rama, Albania’s prime minster ...

TIRANA, Albania — Albania’s prime minister on Friday tapped an Artificial Intelligence-generated “minister” to tackle corruption and promote transparency and innovation in his new Cabinet. Officially ...

Books from religion publishers on the roots and rise of Christian nationalism gained momentum during the first Trump administration. Now, the authors of three forthcoming titles warn that the movement ...

Apollonia has been hard at work in preschool, learning things like, as she put it: “numbers and letters.” And next year, she’ll be able to do that learning in both English and Albanian — in the first ...

The Albania-Serbia World Cup qualifier in Tirana is charged with political and historical tensions rooted in the Kosovo conflict. Organizers urge fans to focus on the sport rather than past ...

A little-known Islamic sect is looking to establish its own state in Albania, equivalent to an Islamic Vatican City. There are over two billion Muslims in the world today, making up roughly a quarter ...