Overview:

• A degree of state privilege is bestowed to the Catholic Church.

• Investigations are periodically conducted by state authorities; as long as these “audits” remain non-discriminatory and non-invasive, then these should retain propriety.

• Recognition and registration are amalgamated rather than ideally differentiated; procedures for existential recognition are non-existent with legal registration, especially with a focus on tax-exemption, as being the primary means of gaining any semblance of recognition in this small enclaved country.

Positive elements:

• Freedom of religion or belief is broadly upheld by the government in practice.

Recommendations:

• Establish a revitalised recognition system that is able to bestow existential recognition and legal registration simultaneously as well as to all belief systems equally and at multiple levels of activity.

• Establish a recognition agency that is independent of government to deal with the revitalised recognition system.