This 18th-century Albanian work of art depicts a Christian scene with minarets rising in the background and is lauded as a symbol of the country's famous religious harmony. Jill Conway ...

The Catholic Church was the first and most fiercely targeted religious community under his regime, as the Vatican was seen as an agent of fascism and anti-communism. In 1967 Albania became the ...

Pope Francis drew enthusiastic and prolonged applause when, in his homily at mass in Mother Teresa Square in Tirana, the capital of Albania, attended by some 300,000 people—most of them ...

Pope Francis, in his strongest criticism of Islamist militants to date, said on Sunday no religious group which used violence and oppression could claim to be "the armour of God".