Klementina started her Christian school in 2011 with almost nothing. Now, she welcomes 220 pupils every day and is the best school in the region.

“What will happen?” This question kept popping into my head as I sat in the van, winding through the rugged mountains of Kula, somewhere between Montenegro and Kosovo.

Hurdles and obstacles are there enough for Christian schools. But in many countries, the need is growing.

After two years, an Albanian pastor has been declared innocent of insulting the gay community of the Balkan country. According to the pastor, the family and children’s futures were at stake.

Albanian pastor Akil Pano will stand before the judge again later this week. He knows the courthouse quite well since his TV performance last year. He said that speaking about “parent 1” and “parent 2” instead of father and mother was “dehumanising”. This is received as hate speech against homosexuals.