During communism, religion was cruelly suppressed. Churches were destroyed, people persecuted and clergy imprisoned. When communism fell, Romania experienced a spiritual revival so that today, the vast majority of Romanians claim allegiance to some kind of faith:

• 86.8% Romanian Orthodox
• 7.5% Protestant
• 4.7% Roman Catholic*

After communism, the work of local churches and foreign missionaries doubled the number of evangelical churches in one decade. So why send missionaries to Romania? Most of those churches were planted in the north and the south remains virtually unreached with less than 1% believers. Many missions organizations left Romania after Christianity was established in the north. Southern believers, though small in number, are committed...