TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Thousands of Albanians gathered in the capital on Thursday to pay their last respects to Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country’s Orthodox Christian Church after ...

Albania plans to establish a sovereign Muslim ... largest religious community in Albania after Sunni Muslims, Orthodox ...

Anastasios is credited with having revived the Orthodox Church in Muslim-majority Albania after decades of "atheist" rule and fostered peace between Christians and Muslims. The Church on Saturday ...

Christians and Muslims sacrificed everything to protect them,” said Elva Margariti, Albania’s minister of culture. “For Albanians this is BESA; it is a value that we will pass on to our ...

Komani, who hails from Albania’s capital city of Tirana, is a board chair of the Albanian Conservative Institute, which describes itself as a “Leading center-right, conservative think tank for ...

Athens (AFP) – Archbishop Anastasios, the head of the Albanian Orthodox Church for three decades, has died aged 95 in an Athens hospital after being airlifted to the Greek capital following a ...