Kurti wraps up Michigan visit with meetings at Albanian community religious centres

One of the largest Albanian diasporas in the world, numbering about 50,000 Albanians, lives in Michigan.

Kurti has expressed satisfaction with the meeting and has thanked them for the great contribution they have made to Kosovo and the Albanian nation, both in war and in peace, even before the proclamation of independence and after its proclamation.

At the gathering, church leaders have shared Prime Minister Kurti with a gratitude for the contribution to the national issue and the advancement of Albanians' image in the democratic world.

Kurt also had a communion dinner with the three Albanian religious leaders in Michigan: Imam Shub Gerguri of the Albanian Islamic Centre, Dervis Eliton Pashaj of the First Biktashian Tech in America, and Dom Fred Kalaj and Dom Ndue George from the Albanian Catholic Church of St. Paul.

The challenges and problems of the exile, but also of Kosovo, have been the subject of conversation.

On our side as a government we have embassy in the United States, and you belong to remain united”, he ordered leaders of three religious confessions.

During the day Kurti visited the Albanian Catholic Church of St. Paul, built by the Albanian community in 1981 at Rochester Hills. This church serves some 2,000 Albanian families living in Detroit and the suburbs. In its courtyard are the statue of Gjergj Kastriot Skenderbeu and the statue of Albanian humanist Mother Teresa, built by community funds.

The previous day the prime minister attended a rally at the Albanian Islamic Centre. This well-made old Albanian community since 1940, while now serving young Muslim immigrants from Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia and other Balkan countries.

The founder of this centre was the first Imam Vehbi Ismail, who arrived in Detroit in 1949 and founded the Muslim Albanian-American Association. In honour of the visit, the Centre's leaders have shared the price to Prime Minister Kurti “Hodge Hasan Tahsini”, said the communique.