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According to the numbers given by the government in 2010 it was stated that Eastern Orthodoxy was practiced by about 20% of Albanians within Albania. [6] In the disputed 2011 census the percentage of Orthodox believers was listed as 6.75% of the population. [5] Albania is historically linked with both the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy ...
Distribution of Catholic believers in Albania as according to the 2011 census. According to the 2011 Albanian census, 10.03% of the population affiliated with Catholicism, while 56.7% were Muslims, 13.79% undeclared, 6.75% Orthodox believers, 5.49% other, 2.5% Atheists, 2.09% Bektashis and 0.14% other Christians. [9]
[1] [3] [4] [5] Albania has been a secular state since 1912 and thus and currently according to the constitution, the state has to be "neutral in questions of belief and conscience": [6] The former socialist government started the anti-religious campaign in 1967 and was declared Albania the world's first constitutionally "atheist state" in 1976 ...
In 2007, ChristianaCare saw 457,348 outpatient visits, 55,512 admissions and 7,100 childbirths. [5] ChristianaCare provided $35.7 million in charity care in 2007. [ 5 ] With more than 10,000 employees, it is one of the largest private employers in Delaware and among the top 10 in the greater Philadelphia region. [ 6 ]
The number of Evangelical Protestants in Albania has risen from approximately 8000 in 1998, [4] to approximately 14,000 in the early 2020s. [5] However, in the 2011 census, 70% of respondents refused to declare belief in any of the listed faiths.
During 1999, when Albania accepted waves of refugees from Kosovo, the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania, in collaboration with donors and other international religious organizations (especially ACT and WCC), led an extensive humanitarian program of more than $12 million, hosting 33,000 Kosovars in its two camps, supplying them with food ...
5 Dormition of the Theotokos church: Libohovë: 13th century Eastern Orthodox: 6 Holy Resurrection Church: Mborje: 896 or 12-14th century Eastern Orthodox: 7 Sacred Heart Church: Tirana: 1939 Roman Catholic: 8 St. Nicholas Church: Perondi: 11th century Eastern Orthodox: 9 St. Athanasius Church: Moscopole: 1721 Eastern Orthodox: 10 St. Elijah ...
The earliest organized Albanian dioceses were set up under the auspices of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church (now Orthodox Church in America), because the Church of Constantinople would not allow the rise of any Albanian Orthodox Church and officially opposed the use of the Albanian language in churches until 1937 when the Autocephalic ...