Kosovo's 'Hidden Catholics' Baptised As Pope Francis Mourned

Fuente: International Business Times

Father Fran Kolaj claims that more than 3,000 people have converted to Catholicism in his church AFP Around the time the Vatican announced the death of Pope Francis, music floated out from a church in a Kosovo valley where dozens of Muslims were participating in an unusual ceremony: they were converting to Catholicism. Such ceremonies are becoming less rare in Muslim-majority Kosovo, where some so-called "hidden-Catholics" or "Laramans" (a term meaning many-faceted in Albanian) are choosing to return openly to the faith of their ancestors, converted centuries ago under Ottoman rule. "I baptise you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.