GOD’S SECRET LISTENER
By John Butterworth
Monarch Books. 222 pages £7.99
ISBN 978-1-85424-991-3
In 1967 its Communist leader, Enver Hoxha, declared Albania the world’s first atheist country. To have any kind of faith in God was illegal.
Later on in the Cold War years, Trans World Radio (TWR) began broadcasting a short gospel programme into the country. Though it was highly dangerous for him to do it, Berti Dosti, the commander of an Albanian Army camp, charged with the job of monitoring the military signals of the Western powers, began secretly listening to the good news of Jesus via TWR.
The re-emergence of heavy shepherds
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