The amazing story of God’s work in Albania has deep roots that go back to the first preaching of the gospel by the Apostle Paul to the Illyrians, the ancestors of today’s Albanians in the first century (Romans 15:19).
The more recent secondary roots of the Evangelicals in Albania go back to the great contribution of British and American missionaries in the first decades of 1800s with the publication of the first Bible in Albanian in 1827.
But the devastation of the atheistic Communist regime of Albania was so complete that only 13 or 16 Evangelical believers were alive when Albania regained freedom in 1991… https://evangelicalfocus.com/features/14419/30-years-of-rebirth-of-evangelicalism-in-albania