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.

The Konrad Adenauer Foundation commissioned a study on religious issues. Albania is the only country in the world where religion has ever been banned by law. For nearly a quarter of a century, the ...

All forms of religion were banned in Albania for 23 years starting in 1967, when the country was completely isolated from the outside world and the communists seized the property of Islamic ...

Dikshu Kukreja, the Honorary Consul General of Albania to India and head of the architecture firm CP Kukreja, which is part ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Orthodox Church on Sunday elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the ...

The creation of a religious state in Albania would have been unimaginable during the four decade communist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha who banned religion outright and persecuted clerics and priests.