Religious Conquests - Albania
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Guitar strumming, voices singing, helicopter whirring: the evangelists are preparing for a mission. One last prayer and the group leader yells, "Let's go tell the world about God!" Until recently, this was the world's first atheist state. Albania's ex-communist dictator, Enver Hoxha banned all types of religion. Bibles and Korans were chucked into a national bonfire and houses of worship destroyed. Catholic priest, Father Pllumi, endured 26 years of torture before his release in 1990 when the Democrats finally ousted the Communists. Now there is a rush to reclaim the faithful. But some Albanians dread another Bosnian bloodbath. In particular, Greek Orthodox Archbishop, Anastassios Yanoulatos, worries that the sudden influx of missionaries might upset Albania's fine religious balance. Undeterred, our American evangelists head up North by jeep to the Catholic heartland. Their aim is to entice villagers to a showing of their film on Jesus Christ. As the projector is set up, the crowd is buzzing for a free night at the movies. But afterwards, converts are scarce. Neither 500 years of Islamic Ottoman rule nor Communism could shake these people's beliefs
Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: October 16, 2007 at 10:07 am
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Length: 00:16:45
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Video Comments:
antonimbret (November 11, 2008 at 9:51 am)
qisha ropt more hoxh mutit rreth jush asht bota ne luft qeni jau qift tan ropt musliman jam ken e sot e gjithmon jam katolik muslimant jan njerz tpa bes e martojn kushrit e vet nrase te pelqen feja muslimane mso si jan ne maroke edhe ne algjeri
ALBANIANSKINHEAD (November 11, 2008 at 10:21 am)
kush martohet me fisin e vet duhet me i vra me buk ne goj! po mos harro se muslimanet nuk jan njilloj! muslimanet e bardh nuk martohen me fisin e tyne,kurse Aziatiket dhe Arbt Afrikanet etj,martohen me fis! po mos harro se edhe Katoliket martohen me fisin e tyne,per shemull Irlandezet martohen me fis,pra mos ti perzim muhabetet,ne jemi SHQIPAR dhe kjo ka ransi! HAVE A NICE TIME
ALBANIANSKINHEAD (November 1, 2008 at 8:27 pm)
how much do you get paid for sticking up for Jesus?
antonimbret (November 11, 2008 at 9:47 am)
fuck you fuckin prick ti qi tan ropt hajde ne angli se at skinhed ta thej
ALBANIANSKINHEAD (November 11, 2008 at 10:13 am)
pse me thu hajde ne Angli,pse nuk vjen ti ne Tiran edhe me njeh se kush jam un! apo nuk mun vjen se je ne te zez!Une po tregoj te drjten more byth qim! apo nuk po te pelqen? une kam qen ne Angli dhe e njoh ma mir se ti,un kam shok Anglez nga Manchesteri si vin e ta qin at nan marie mu ne pidh! ATO JAN ANGLEZ EDHE NUK BESOJN NE JESUS!
Maestro9375 (October 31, 2008 at 8:40 pm)
By the way my parents had both of those religions and both of them do not care and never followed them. I have religions by birth but I've never followed them in my life. That's a personal choice plus the Atheism of 1960 backs me up on that. By the way I'm a teenager not some old ex-communist.
Maestro9375 (October 31, 2008 at 8:35 pm)
I am not communist I like capitalism, communism worked sometimes. God gives faith to people who need it. Albania never had religions so why should they get them? I think Enver who was Albania's communist leader was right. People died because they didn't want those religions but were forced to get them by the Romans and Turks, we have less of Christianity because Romans attacked us like 2000 years ago. We have more Islam because of the war from 109 years ago. Eventually we will be religionfree =D
ShkodraneNYC (October 31, 2008 at 6:59 pm)
wtf they doing in albania.. albanian faith is albania
antonimbret (November 11, 2008 at 9:36 am)
stupid prick where is mother tereza from then???
te gjith jami rober te zotit ,kryesore eshte qe eshte nje zot
fete jane parti ne sherbim te zotit ,dhe detyra e tyre eshte ti bashkojne njerzit,jo te shahemi keshtu ne youtybe
turp tu vij ,kur keni perball nje te fes tjeter e respektoni me sa mundeni ,ketu nxirni youtybe ,koken e gjarperit
une jam mysluman e miqte me te mire te mit jane katoliket e ortodokset e anasjelltas