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 ...

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In the late 1800s, Nicola Yanney came from Lebanon to settle on a farm near Gibbon, Nebraska. He later became a St. George priest and traveled across the U.S.

Today, Albania's population is 70 percent Muslim, 20 percent Albanian Orthodox, and 10 percent Roman Catholic, according to U.S. government statistics. Less than 1 percent of the country's citizens ...