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The Greek Minority Party “OMONIA” reports extreme ignorance of Albanian authorities regarding the protection of Orthodox churches in areas where Greek minorities reside. The Organization specifically condemned the desecration of the church of Agioi Pantes in Chimara that took...

The President of the Hellenic Republic Karolos Papoulias participated at the occasion of the 20th anniversary from the establishment of the Omonoia organization.  The anniversary was celebrated yesterday in Dervitsani.  He mentioned the ability of the Greek minority organization “Omonoia”...

A court in Albania ruled that ethnic Greek minority leader Fredi Beleri, who won the mayoral elections in the city of Himara recently, should remain in prison until his trial. Beleri was arrested two days before the 14 May local...

Greece launched a formal protest with Albania on Friday following the arrest of an ethnic Greek politician in Himara, located in southern Albania. Fredi Beleri, a Greek minority candidate running for mayor in Himara, was arrested on charges of vote-buying...

The Greek community in Himara, Albania, has complained about a mass Albanian government demolition plan that puts their homes at risk, according to Epirus TV. According to the report, the plan was voted for by the Himara City Coucil, convening...

A Greek flag was burned outside the offices of the "OMONOIA" organization by unknown individuals on Monday night in the Agious Saranta area in south Albania. The Democratic Union of the National Greek Minority OMONOIA is an organization located in southern...

The Democratic Union of the Greek minority, "Omonoia" has expressed with an official announcement, its opposition to the proposed administrative division in the region of Himara, Albania. "Omonia" has proposed the union of Himara and the region of Loukovo and will intensify its...

After the Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, announced his new government in which no minister from the Greek minority participates, the organization Omonoia, a social, political and cultural organization in  Albania that promotes minority rights for the Greek minority...

A total of six deputies of Greek descent are participating in the new Parliament of Albania. They all belong to different political parties, which cooperate as governmental partners in the framework of the new Albanian government. Edi Rama (PS) has...

Vangelis Doules, President of the Human Rights Union and leader of the “OMONIA” Greek Minority Party, gave an interview with a big Albanian TV station (“5 questions with Babaramo” on News24) that became the center of media attention due...

The annual memorial service for the 37-year-old Northern Epirot Aristotle Goumas was held in a highly charged atmosphere, on Sunday morning in Chimara. Goumas was assassinated on August 12, 2010 by a group of seven Albanian nationalists. Then, in an...

A celebratory event for the 101 years of the Battle of Kileler was organized by the Club of Thessalians Düsseldorf. The event under the name THESSALY took place Saturday, the 12th of March 2011 in the room of the...

Police in the eastern town of Korca have busted a criminal network that assisted locals in obtaining Greek visas for money. The Economic Crime Office on Monday (April 5th) arrested a representative of a Roma association in the town,...

The hope that the Albanian leadership will soon conduct an objective census under the supervision of the Council of Europe – which will include Greeks living in that country – was expressed by the Parliamentary Speaker Philippos Petsalnikos and...