Kosovo
Kosovars get COVID vaccine after Friday prayer at mosques
By Associated Press — November 19, 2021
Imams around Kosovo called on the faithful to get the jab while medical teams waited in the mosques’ yards to inoculate them.
Muslim preachers help Kosovo women learn, win their rights
By LLazar Semini — November 23, 2018
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — There's a widespread tradition that it's better for women to pray at home than in the mosque, but in Kosovo, an old Ottoman-era tradition is bucking that trend.
First cathedral for Mother Teresa is consecrated in Kosovo
By Lauren Markoe — September 5, 2017
PRISTINA, Kosovo (RNS) — The consecration Tuesday (Sept. 5), which falls on the one-year anniversary of her canonization in Rome, was long-awaited by the small but active Catholic community in Kosovo.
Pilgrims crowd church where Mother Teresa once prayed
By Yonat Shimron — August 17, 2016
LETNICA, Kosovo (RNS) A young Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu made the decision to become a nun in a church in this small village.
Diplomacy can undermine extremism
By guest — June 15, 2016
(RNS) The challenge of Islamist extremism is real and must be taken seriously. But I have also never been more optimistic about the Western Balkans and its future.
Tiny Kosovo offers a model for Muslim-Jewish friendship
By Kimberly Winston — June 15, 2016
PRISTINA, Kosovo (RNS) Why would 10 young Jewish leaders from New York travel to Kosovo to reframe how they think about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
UK Catholic priest who fled sex abuse allegations arrested in Kosovo
By Yonat Shimron — May 16, 2016
(RNS) He fled in 2010 after a man in his 40s accused the priest of abusing him as a child.
Muslim Kosovars rediscover their long-forgotten Roman Catholic roots
By Valerie Plesch — May 6, 2015
(RNS) Old churches in Kosovo like the one in Gjonaj are reminders of the country’s deep-rooted Christian history, one some locals would like to resurrect.
The Occasional Pilgrim: Sinan Pasha Mosque (Photos)
By Kimberly Winston — February 28, 2015
(RNS) Travel to the Sunan Pasha Mosque in the heart of Kosovo, the newest old country nestled in the heart of the Balkans in this slide show of a sacred place.
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