What is Albania?
Albania is a former Communist country that freed itself from Communism in 1991. It was ruled by a dictator who had complete control over the nation and its people for over 40 years. He declared that ‘there is no God’ and went so far as to break relations with Russia and China because their brand of communism was not pure enough. The country was completely shut off from the rest of the world. Most people in Albania were non-religious before 1991 because of government coercion, but the heritage of people there is about 70% Muslim, 20% Orthodox Christian and 10% Roman Catholic. Muslim and Orthodox organizations have begun to go into Albania and build national organizations. The Evangelical or Protestant Christian movement is somewhat small but having a large impact on the people of this beautiful country. Albanian people are fairly well educated and western in their lifestyle, though poor because of years of neglect to infrastructure and political upheaval. Why are we there? In 1991 Simi
