Kenza was Muslim.
On the Easter night of Saturday evening, she will become Catholic, through the baptism she will receive in Sartrouville, in the Paris suburbs.
The 29-year-old young woman is impatient.
“
I’ve been waiting for this day for three years,
” she explains.
I only have one word to describe what I experience: peace.
When you convert to Islam, you just have to go to the mosque, say a sentence and it's done.
When I went to see a Catholic priest, I immediately asked him for baptism, but I had to train.
This journey brought me peace, inner peace
”
Kenza is one of the 12,135 adults and adolescents “catechumens
”
who will be baptized in France on the night before Easter Sunday, the feast of the resurrection of Christ.
The conference of bishops published these figures on Wednesday, a sharp increase compared to 2023. Adult baptisms had already increased by 28% between 2022 and 2023. They are increasing by another 31% this year.
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