Albania's prime minister has revealed plans to establish a microstate for Sufi Muslims within the country's capital, Tirana. At the UN General Assembly last week, Prime Minister Edi Rama said the ...

Albania plans to establish a sovereign Muslim microstate within its borders run by a Sufi sect known for promoting "religious ...

Long overlooked by historians, the rescue of hundreds of Jews in the largely Muslim nation is connected to a local honor system. TIRANA, Albania (JTA) — Most anywhere else in Nazi-occupied ...

A pollster says public support for Israel could be dropping in a country that is opening two new Jewish museums. TIRANA, Albania (JTA) — Hidden behind a wooden gate in Tirana’s Toptani ...

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 ...

The Albanian case is very similar to the problems that the Croat 19 th century nationalists faced with the acute lack of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...