The Marxist regime that ruled Albania from 1946 to 1991 outlawed all religions in 1967 — including Judaism — and reviled Israel as the “little devil” of the United States. But Albania is ...

Enver Hoxha had criminalised all forms of religion and Father Kurti paid the ultimate price for disobeying a totalitarian state that has often been compared to today's North Korea. Now Albania ...

For nearly half a century Albania experienced a brand of communism ... During his forty-year reign, the Albanian leader Enver Hoxha banned religion, forbade travel and outlawed private property.

In Albania, religion is considered a private matter between men and God, and we may be quite unique in this aspect. If Albanian kids are asked what they are, they will answer by telling you that ...