After being sealed off from the outside world for decades and experiencing a mass exodus, Albania is leaning into its ...

Albania is home to a huge number of abandoned bunkers, which were built during the paranoid communist government of Enver ...

She is baffled by Hoxha's library, which holds books by his communist idols ... internment camps or executed during the 46 years of his repressive regime. Albania today has seen its economy ...

Albania's Orthodox Church has held an enthronement ceremony for its new Archbishop Joan, who succeeded Archbishop Anastasios ...

In Tirana, visitors can expect the same warm hospitality, as locals are eager to show off their hospitality chops as they ...

Forty years after the death of dictator Enver Hoxha, whose four-decade rule over Albania drove it into isolation and poverty, Qasa Alom explores how the country has changed. In the capital Tirana ...

Ironically, Pajenga says that the Albania's transition to democracy compounded the problem. "During communism, people had one fixed job from 07:00 until 15:00," she recalls. "When democracy came ...

He is the second Archbishop of the country's Orthodox Autocephalous Church after the fall of the communist regime and the ...

who resuscitated the country’s church after the fall of communism. “Albania’s Autocephalous Orthodox Church wants to live in peace with all,” said Archbishop Joan, adding that religious co ...