Added: Oct 14, 2008

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Challenges to democracy in Albania : hearing before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session, March 14, 1996 in between. With regard to the church, I think this also holds true. Perhaps someone else can say more, but my experience is that they get along very well. There is, I should say, one issue that makes the situation complicated was the enforced atheism of the Hoxha re- gime. As you know, it was the first officially atheist state, and the persecution against the religions was severe and brutal; that meant that today there are very few individuals qualified to lead the church. That is whv a Greek citizen had to be appointed as the archbishop of the Albanian Orthodox Church, because allegedly no Albanian citizen was qualified to hold that position. Naturally, this evoked a response from

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