Basics of regulation of the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church in Africa

... congregation in 12 of the country's 18 provinces). The ambiguity of the situation is also confirmed by the fact that more than 2,000 religious organizations, including Christian and Islamic ones, have been de facto active in the country since 2004, despite the ... ... treaty in the classical sense⁴⁷. Such an agreement bears a vague resemblance to the concordats (conventions) concluded by the Roman Catholic Church as a religious organization and the “Holy See” (Vatican) as a state with Catholic countries. The most ...