Albanian opposition lawmakers have violently disrupted a Parliament session to protest the imprisonment of a fellow legislator who was sent to jail on charges of slander.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announced at the UN on September 22 that there are plans to create a brand-new state within ...

Proposal for 'Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order', a Vatican-style enclave, has sparked confusion, praise and heated ...

Further reading: Vatican sets up observatory to study Marian apparitions and other mystical phenomena Cardinal Fernandez wrote in his August 22 letter, “Her words are striking for their ...

Our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week includes a proposed ‘Vatican-style’ micro-state for the Bektashi ...

TIRANA, Albania: Albania's Tirana-based Bektashi Muslims, an Islamic Sufi order, would be granted sovereignty from the ...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama wants to establish a sovereign Muslim mini-state within his country based on the model of ...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announced on Sunday during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly's Summit of the ...

The Bektashi Order would be able to govern religious and administrative issues on their own, without Albania's involvement.

Behind Edi Rama’s announcement of a Vatican-type ‘microstate’ for the Bektashi movement in Tirana, some critics of his rule ...

Albania plans to create its own Vatican. This one, however, will be Muslim. The New York Times reported that Albanian Prime ...