“From the time we arrived in North Africa until today, the spiritual situation has really changed. There are house churches in places where there were no house churches before. There is more interest among people in the gospel. The younger generation, they are interested. They are seeking for information; they want to know more,” explained Oliveira*(Brazil), who has served in the Middle East for over 20 years.

Since the Arab Spring, which began in 2010, Oliveira noticed that people in North Africa have been less fearful of asking questions—and searching for answers to those questions on the internet. Still, despite the increase in people seeking truth and evidence of new small groups of national believers meeting in various places, less than one per cent of the country’s population are Christians.