Archbishop Anastasios, the head of the Albanian Orthodox Church for three decades, has died aged 95 in an Athens hospital after being airlifted to the Greek capital following a virus infection.

We asked people in three dozen countries how they see religion's role in society, government and national identity.

In the Ottoman era, “Turk” essentially meant “Muslim.” A Catholic Albanian, a Greek Orthodox, or a Jew who converted to Islam would become a Turk, which meant accepting Islam. At the time, the word ...

Christians represent 25 percent of the population of Muslim-majority Albania which ... He was also seen as a spokesman for the Greek minority in Albania (23,485 people out of a total population ...

(2) However, Christians and other minorities remember similar assertions ... such as the 1942 tax levied on non-Muslim citizens in Turkey and the 1955 Istanbul pogrom against Greek and Armenian ...

Ethnically, there are Phoenician, Greek, Armenian and ... in Lebanon are not described as ‘minorities’. On the one hand, relations between Christians and Muslims in Lebanon are better than ...

The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...

Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...