” “A young community, which however is affected by massive migration. This is the reality of the Catholic congregation in Kosovo: out of a population of 2,100,0000, Catholics are 65,000 plus approximately 40,000 exiles. The Country was visited yesterday by a delegation of Cei (National service for the young pastoral, Office for cooperation between the Churches and Centro Giovanni Paolo II of Loreto) travelling through the Balkans to promote the "Agora of the youth of the Mediterranean". 33% of the Kosovari population are under 14 years of age, and only 7% are over 65. Out of the 48 priests incardinated in the diocese, only 32 work in the country; the others are missionaries, especially in Albania and Croatia, or take care of the exiled Kosovari communities. "Young people are there, we have no problem finding them, and our priests, also young, have no problems relating to them", explained the apostolic administrator of Prizren, mgr. Dodë Gjergi. "Instead, the greatest risk has to do with exile: there are parish churches where most young people are abroad". A phenomenon due to the high unemployment rate, which impoverishes the Catholic community: "We deeply feel it, and we suffer from it added the bishop , because we are few already as we are". ” “
