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Wow! I just heard this interview with his grace, Archbishop Anastasios the head of the Orthodox Church of Albania.  A little back ground.  Albania was the worlds first constitutionally official atheist nation.  It was mainly a muslim country when the communist dictators took over and tried to annihilate every other faith in the peoples hearts, accept for atheism.  Finally after 20 years of oppression the madmen fell and left a economically and morally broken country.  Archbishop Anastasios was asked to go on a fact finding mission for the Ecumenical Patriarch.  The Albanian people asked him to stay and so with five helpers, $5,000 and the Grace of God; he became the leader of the then extinct Albanian Orthodox Church.  Since then he has establish a completely native clergy and rebuilt the atheist destroyed church infra structure, as well as many charities for the entire Albanian people.  All this supported entirely by the poor ,but faithful Albanian believers.  This is a real miracle of God.  Follow this link and click unto Archbishop Anastasios of Albania to hear the story fromm his graces own mouth ancientfaith.com/podcasts/hopko