The dictator in question is Enver Hoxha, the communist leader who ruled Albania from the mid-1940s until his death in 1985. Initially allied to the Soviet Union before cutting those ties ...

When Catherine Bohne was a child, she took a ferry ride at sunrise from Italy to Corfu with her family. The boat slowly slid past a quiet green coastline, thick with forests and seemingly uninhabited.

"They spend a lot of money for nothing." Rama supporters say he helped Albania shed its difficult communist-era past, in which former ruler Enver Hoxha locked the country away from the world for ...

Albania was previously under the Soviet Union’s influence, with Enver Hoxha ruling the country through his Party of Labor. The Socialist Party rebranded after the fall of communism in the ...

EUROPE'S DOOR 'OPEN' Rama supporters say he helped Albania shed its difficult communist-era past, in which former ruler Enver Hoxha locked the country away from the world for decades. In the ...

This house of God is a total real-estate blessing! The owner of Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home in the suburbs of Chicago yanked the humble abode off the market overnight with potential plans to ...

(John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune) People who gathered outside the abandoned St. Mary of the Assumption on Thursday mused about what the future might hold for Pope Leo XIV’s childhood church ...

DOLTON, Ill. (WGN) — A piece of Papal history is up for sale in Chicago’s south suburbs, where Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home has just hit the auction block. The home, which is being ...

I was interested in that—how she can’t shake her own history, how many of her choices as an adult are defined by the events of her childhood, how she has to learn to be a mother while ...

That community is gone now. The former St. Mary of the Assumption Parish in Chicago, Pope Leo XIV’s childhood parish.Credit...Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times Supported by By Ruth ...

A humble 3-bedroom Illinois home listed for sale this week is now in the world spotlight. Chicago native Pope Leo XIV, also known as Robert Prevost, grew up in this house. Originally listed for $ ...