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.
