Kosovo Catholics practice faith openly

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08/12/2012

The solemn sounds of an organ echoed around this remote mountain village in the small Catholic community gathered for Sunday mass in a newly-built stone church.

The solemn sounds of an organ echoed around this remote mountain village in the small Catholic community gathered for Sunday mass in a newly-built stone church.

A freshly-painted image of the crucified Christ looked down on seven pews packed with believers, mainly farmers, their faces tanned by the sun after toiling in the fields.

“Today we sing aloud, we do not have to sit in darkness as the gloomy, terrible days are gone and joy has dawned on us,” a sister chanted in Albanian.

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