Albania is set to establish a sovereign spiritual state in Tirana for the Bektashi Order, an Islamic Sufi sect, in a move ...

TIRANA: Albania will create a sovereign Muslim state in Tirana for the Bektashi religious order, along the lines ...

If created, the enclave for the Islamic Sufi order would be one of the world's smallest states. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

Albania is planning to establish a sovereign state in Tirana for the Bektashi religious order, similar to the Vatican, to promote religious tolerance. The enclave would have its own administration but ...

Albania will create a sovereign Muslim state in Tirana for the Bektashi religious order, along the lines of the Vatican in ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had a surprise guest earlier this week. Ahmet Uğurlu, an elderly Alevi dede (a socio-religious ...

Pope Francis was wearing his arm in a sling during his meetings and audiences Jan. 16 after hurting his right arm in a fall.

Pope Francis, with his arm in a sling after suffering a contusion to his right forearm due to a fall, poses for a picture with Hajji Dede Edmond Brahimaj, leader of the Bektashi Order in Tirana, ...

POPE Francis had suffered a “contusion” on his right forearm after falling at his residence that same morning, the Vatican ...

The press in Albania seems to think so, after Pope Francis met with a delegation from the Muslim Bektashi Order of Dervishes, based in Albania. Bektashism is an Islamic Sufi mystic order ...

our hope for a better and more just world is renewed and confirmed”, the Pope said as he met in the Vatican with a delegation of the Bektashi Order of Dervishes from Albania. The Bektashis are a ...