Llapushnik, Kosovo, April 22, 2025 (AFP) - Kosovo's 'hidden Catholics' baptised as Pope Francis mourned

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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, conve......

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