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.- Francis 'would have done the same' - Although no official figures exist, Kolaj claims that more than 3,000 people have converted to Catholicism in his Church of Saint Abraham overlooking the Llapushnik Valley since Kosovo's independence from Serbia in 2008.