Wednesday, September 15, 2010

HOLY SEE AND BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA RATIFY AN AGREEMENT

VATICAN CITY, 15 SEP 2010 (VIS) - A communique made public yesterday afternoon announced that, on the morning of 14 September, a ceremony took place in the Vatican to exchange the instruments of ratification of an Agreement between the Holy See and Bosnia Herzegovina concerning religious assistance to Catholic faithful who are members of that country's armed forces. The Agreement itself was signed in Sarajevo on 8 April.

  The ceremony was attended by, among others, Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B., Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, secretary for Relations with States, and Sven Alkalaj, foreign minister of Bosnia Herzegovina.

  The Agreement came into effect on the day the instruments of ratification were exchanged.
OP/                                    VIS 20100915 (120)

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