Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary(Asunción de la Virgen) en 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso

Assumption of Mary in Burkina Faso is a national holiday observed by the Catholic community; the feast is particularly significant in this majority-Muslim country where Catholic-Muslim interfaith relations are generally positive.

Catholic and Orthodox feast on August 15 celebrating the bodily taking up of the Virgin Mary into heaven, widely observed as a public holiday across Catholic Europe and Latin America.