AFRICA/BURKINA FASO – Signing of the Second Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the Holy See and Burkina Faso on the legal status of the Catholic Church in Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) – Today, 11 October 2024, the Second Additional Protocol to the Agreement between the Holy See and Burkina Faso on the legal status of the Catholic Church in Burkina Faso was signed in Ouagadougou, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Burkina Faso.
According to the note published by the Vatican Press Office, the agreement was signed: on behalf of the Holy See by Archbishop Michael F. Crotty, titular of Lindisfarne, apostolic nuncio, and for the State of Burkina Faso, by His Excellency Karamoko Jean Marie Traore, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Cooperation and citizens of Burkina Faso abroad.
The Additional Protocol, which consists of a Preamble, seven articles and an appendix, further governs the procedure for issuing the certificate of legal personality in Burkina Faso law to public canonical juridical persons based in that nation, thus facilitating their evangelical mission in the promotion of the common good was signed in the Vatican on July 12, 2019 and ratified on September 7, 2020, the day on which it entered into force (see Fides, 8/9/2020).
“The Second Additional Protocol”, says the Holy See’s communiqué, “which consists of a Preamble, seven articles and an appendix, further governs the procedure for issuing the certificate of legal personality in Burkina Faso law to public canonical juridical persons based in that nation, thus facilitating their evangelical mission in the promotion of the common good. It came into effect on the day of signing”. (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides, 11/10/2024)
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