DERVEN, Albania (AP) — The one-room, stone church of St. Nicholas has sat on the top of a hill here since the 16th century, destroyed three times and rebuilt in a testament to the Catholic presence in ...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama wants to establish a sovereign Muslim mini-state within his country based on the model of the Vatican. It would be created in Albania's capital Tirana and run by the ...

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 ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Pope Francis called Sunday for Muslims and all religious leaders to condemn Islamic extremists who “pervert” religion to justify violence, as he visited Albania and held up the ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has announced plans to transform the Tirana-based Bektashi Muslims into a sovereign state. On Sunday, he spoke at the United Nations, ...

When announcing his plan to create a sovereign state for the Shia Sufi Bektashi Order in the Albanian capital, Tirana, Prime Minister Edi Rama chose to paraphrase the late ethnic Albanian nun and ...

Religious leaders and local politicians gathered at the new Muslim Community Center to celebrate solidarity and shared values.

The funeral of the Bektashi leader Haji Dede Reshat Bardhi in Tirana in 2011. He helped reestablish the order after communism — GENT SHKULLAKU Albania plans to establish a sovereign Muslim microstate ...

The election of Bujar Spahiu as the new head of the Albanias an Muslim Community was marred by opponents’ allegations that he supports Turkish cleric Fetullah Gulen, who is wanted for arrest by the ...