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

The remains of Servant of God Cardinal Grégoire Agagianian (1895–1971) are being transferred from Rome to Beirut. Cardinal Agagianian was the former head of the Armenian Catholic Church, top ...

New Zealand is in mourning, and tributes poured in August 30 following the death of the king of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori people, who had celebrated the 18th anniversary of his coronation ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Albania prevé establecer un microestado soberano musulmán dentro de sus fronteras que estará dirigido por una secta sufí ...