News Albania Religion: Albanian American Student Organization returns to campus
This semester, the University of Wisconsin’s Albanian American Student Organization has resumed operations after going on hiatus during the pandemic. The AASO’s president Jehona Zeneli said her goal for the organization is to create an inclusive community dedicated to exploring and preserving Albanian culture. The AASO provides an opportunity for Albanian and non-Albanian students to...
News Albania Religion: WWII Greek soldiers remains buried in special ceremony
Greece’s Foreign Ministry announced the burial of Greek soldiers’ remains during a symbolic religious ceremony held in a military cemetery of Kelcyre in Albania. The remains were those of Greek ...
News Albania Religion: Take a moment to reflect on the pristine, geometric beauty of this roadside Albanian mosque
From Poland’s striking, communist-era, hand-built churches to the exuberantly yonic Wedding Palace outside of Tbilisi, the New East is home to an array of playfully avant-garde religious buildings. ...
News Albania Religion: State Dept. religious liberty event shows gains
Follow-up conferences were announced in Albania, Bangladesh, Colombia, the Marshall Islands, Morocco and the Vatican. -- The first religious freedom awards went to people from Brazil, Cyprus ...
News Albania Religion: As religious freedom summit ends, State Department announces new alliance, sanctions
RELATED: Brunson at religious freedom summit ... providing humanitarian aid and combating human trafficking. Pompeo said Albania, Colombia and Morocco are also planning to host regional ...
News Albania Religion: US secretary of state promises an alliance for ‘religious freedom’
The three-day gathering at the state department, which is being held for the second straight year, is bringing together dozens of countries and hundreds of activists to promote religious freedom. ...
News Albania Religion: UN religious freedom expert hails Albania interfaith harmony
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The U.N. expert on religious freedom has praised Albania's interfaith tolerance, considering it to be an example for other countries. Ahmed Shaheed says that Albania is a model ...
News Albania Religion: Religious Fascism Against Iranian Resistance Under Cover of Journalism
He should first explain the nature of his relations with the Iranian regime embassy in Albania and its religious Gestapo-like MOIS, and also his mission in this regard. Should we expect further ...
News Albania Religion: What is Eid and how do Muslims celebrate it? 6 questions answered
In Turkey and in places that were once part of the Ottoman-Turkish empire such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania ... Chitwood is a Ph.D. candidate in religion in the Americas and global Islam ...
News Albania Religion: Turkey’s Global Soft-Power Push Is Built on Mosques
In 1967, when Albania’s then-dictator, Enver Hoxha, mandated state atheism, the public practice of religion was outlawed, and places of worship were demolished or repurposed. After his downfall, the ...
News Albania Religion: Albania: Inter-religious Council, a call for “dialogue and for a resolution of this prolonged conflict”
“Our country’s political situation, which directly affects its social and economic aspects as well as the future of our youth, thus creating an uncertain state and violating the hope of a suffering ...
News Albania Religion: RELIGION : Papal Visit Brings New Season to Albania's Hardy Christians
Spring is an evocative time for the relative handful of hardy Christians who live around the ramshackle provincial city of Shkoder in so-long-isolated Albania. On April 25, 1967, Communist officials ...
News Albania Religion: ‘The Invocation of Enver Simaku’: Film Review
The first half-hour of his pursuit offers fascinating documentary insights into how ancient folk beliefs were allowed to flourish following the 40-year ban by Enver Hoxhas’ Communist government on ...