Most of the remaining clerics, now released from prison, are elderly men. God, we thank you for Albania's new freedom, and pray that you would raise up strong vibrant Albanian congregations. Islam Although Christianity came to the Caucasus mountains centuries ago, most Caucasians are cut off from the gospel today. Almost 40 different languages and many more dialects are spoken in the northern Caucasus region, some of them unwritten, and most unrelated to any other living language. Broken terrain and steep hills isolate Caucasian communities and make travel treacherous.
Some communities live as they have for centuries, their lives untouched by the outside world.
In other places large Soviet-built cities dominate the landscape and television and radio bring modern values. The many Caucasian languages and dialects have few Bible translations. Lord, we pray your word would be translated and touch the hearts of the remote peoples of the Caucasus. Together they form the fragile country of Bosnia-Hercegovinia. Formerly part of Yugoslavia, this region is torn by wars rooted in the ethnicity of the Muslim, Catholic and Orthodox peoples.