Albania’s Orthodox Church has elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the fall of communism in 1990 ...

Italy defends plan to process asylum-seekers in Albania at EU’s top court The home of Albania’s late communist dictator is now hosting what he despised most: Free thinkers They helped US order ...

21 trip to Albania was the Holy Father’s encounter with an 85 year-old Franciscan Stigmatine nun, who recalled witnessing to the faith in the midst of the Communist regime. TIRANA, Albania: Among the ...

some members were Chinese Communist Party loyalists who accepted the government’s policies, while others believed that their lives were destroyed by them. Chang says that there was “very ...

Nazmi Rrahmani, one of the first Kosovo Albanian writers to have his works published in isolated communist-era Albania, looks back on a career marked by struggles and strange surprises. “You on ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Thanin Kraivichien, an anti-communist judge who became Thailand’s prime minister after a 1976 military coup but was ousted by another coup a year later because of his hard-line ...

TIRANA – In the heart of the capital, the villa of Albania’s former dictator welcomes ... role in helping transform the home of former communist leader Enver Hoxha into a chic new residency.

They labelled the process “undemocratic” and accused the board of “communism” – a confusing ... When is the club going to win a flag? “Nothing happens here,” one member complained ...

February 20, 1991 marked the end of the communist regime in Albania. One of the cables used to pull the monument is on display in the Pavilion of Communist Terror, near the National History Museum.

The son of an army general in communist Albania, Robert Budina was part of the student protests that helped bring down the regime, only to flee to Italy on an overcrowded boat. The experience has ...