RESCRIPTUM EX AUDIENTIA SANCTISSIMI

The Supreme Pontiff Leo XIV, in the Audience granted to the undersigned Cardinal Secretary of State on 29 January 2026, considering the need to regularize the canonical status of the “John Paul II for the Sahel” Foundation, aligning it with the current regulatory framework for Legal Persons instrumental to the Roman Curia and with the regulations on the patrimony of the Apostolic See

HAS DECREED

the approval of the amended Statutes of the same Entity. The Holy Father has also ordered that this Rescript be published in L'Osservatore Romano and subsequently in the official commentary of the Acta Apostolicae Sedis, coming into force today.

From the Vatican, 29 January 2026

Pietro Card. Parolin
Secretary of State