Gerapetritis congratulated the Archbishop for his election and wished him success in the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of ...

The Vatican’s Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin shared the Holy Father’s condolences for fire victims and their ...

The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Albania elected Metropolitan Ioannis of Korçë as the new Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës, and All Albania on March 16, 2025, following the passing of Archbishop ...

Albania’s Orthodox Church on Sunday elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop ...

The Greek Orthodox Holy Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai is believed to house the oldest icon depicting the ...

Forty days have passed since the death of the late Archbishop Anastasios of Albania, and a memorial service was held today, Saturday, at the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Tirana ...

but with a big heart," the Bektashi leader told AFP in Tirana, draped in a white tunic and wearing a ... the fourth-largest religious community in Albania, after Sunni Muslims, Orthodox Christians, ...

The aggression is not just a fight for territory, it is the destruction of shrines.” The appeal comes as Moldova's Orthodox Church, which boasts 90 per cent of the nation’s churchgoers amongst its ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania's Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country's Orthodox Church after the fall of the communist regime in 1990, has died, the church said on Saturday.

but with a big heart," the Bektashi leader told AFP in Tirana, draped in a white tunic ... after Sunni Muslims, Orthodox Christians, and Catholics. And while the bureaucratic details of the ...

"It is one of the only places where you can visit a Mosque, a Catholic church, an Eastern Orthodox church and a synagogue in one place. "Tucked inside a long, thin valley and surrounded by ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew leads the official door-opening ceremony of lower Manhattan’s St ...