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

During WWII, Albania defied the Nazis, sheltering Jews and preserving its tradition of hospitality. Discover how this ...

Once a Muslim-majority nation, Kosovo is witnessing a quiet but growing movement of Albanians converting to Catholicism. Advocates of the shift argue they are reclaiming their ancestral faith, once ...

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

Long overlooked by historians, the rescue of hundreds of Jews in the largely Muslim nation is connected to a local honor system. TIRANA, Albania (JTA) — Most anywhere else in Nazi-occupied ...

News articles often portray Albania as a majority-Muslim country, but the reality is more nuanced. About half of Albania’s 2.6 million inhabitants don’t identify with any religion, a legacy of ...

All forms of religion were banned in Albania for 23 years starting in 1967, when the country was completely isolated from the outside world and the communists seized the property of Islamic, Orthodox, ...

In later centuries, Makkah came to be revered as the centre of the world (if not the universe), as illustrated in the ...

Traditionally, people who practice Islam wait for the sighting of a crescent moon to determine when Eid festivities can kick off. This tends to vary depending on lunar observations in the ...

Dr Hamid Shahriari, Secretary-General of the World Assembly for the Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought in Iran, described the Document on Building Bridges as a landmark initiative based on ...