Hoxha’s rule of terror murdered 5,577 men and 450 women in Albania. Communist regimes throughout history have produced their fair share of cults of personality (cue the eponymous 1988 song by Living ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Thousands of Albanians gathered in the capital on Thursday to pay their last respects to Archbishop ...

Utah State University’s Merrill-Cazier Library opened a “Playing Religion” exhibit, Tuesday, that examines board games and card games centered around the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of ...

ROME — In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Rome City Schools Superintendent Nerlande Anselme called upon her memory when speaking of her own goals in the district. “When he was ...

The Bektashis are a renowned Muslim Sufi Order that originated in 13th-century Anatolia, in modern-day Turkiye, and became widespread in the Ottoman Empire, extending to Albania and the Albanian ...

In a major breakthrough, Italy, Albania, and the United Arab Emirates signed a landmark deal worth at least 1 billion euros ($1 billion) to build a subsea interconnection for renewable energy ...

President Joe Biden presented a Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction on Saturday to the leader of his own church, Pope Francis. Biden praised the Catholic leader for being a “light of faith, ...

TIRANA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Albania's government has granted strategic investor status to a company linked to Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner to build a luxury resort on an uninhabited ...

Sazan island. Photo: Gjergj Erebara/BIRN. Albania’s government has approved a request by Jared Kushner to develop the uninhabited island of Sazan, granting the initiative strategic investor status.

Italy, Albania and the United Arab Emirates signed ... at least geographically speaking.” The UAE, a major oil-producing nation, has pledged to be carbon-neutral by 2050 and hosted the COP28 ...