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

... “On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations” dated September 26, 1997. The Statute of the Russian Orthodox Church defines the Russian Orthodox Church as a self-governing (autocephalous) centralized Orthodox religious organization uniting religious organizations of the Russian Orthodox Church for the joint exercise of the right to freedom of confession and dissemination of the Orthodox Christian faith, as well as for the care of religious and moral enlightenment of society, and is recognized by other autocephalous Orthodox ...