Nicaragua is forcing the Catholic priests of the Nation to present themselves at local police stations weekly to interrogate and present their homilies for review, the Catholic exit online The Pilar reported On Wednesday.
The regime of the communist dictator Daniel Ortega and his wife and “co -president” Rosario Murillo have fought a continuous and implacable persecution against the Catholic Church of Nicaragua in retaliation for the support of the Church to the wave of 2018 anti -communist present stations 2018. Ortega responded to peaceful protests with a brutal campaign of repressions that left more than 300 dead.
The persecution of Ortega’s Christianity intensified dramatically in 2022, the same year that the communist dictator, a self -proclaimed “Catholic,” he told “war“Against the Vatican, accusing him of using his priests to” organize a coup “against his regime. The climb has included: the exile of priests, nuns and other members of the Church of Nicaragua; the systematic off and the forced seizure of Catholic media, universities and other assets;
El Pilar, citing a report Recently published by Christian solidarity worldwide (CSW), he explained that the Ortega regime imposed “caution measures” in the Catholic Church that forced its priests to do weekly activities of repair of people. Offices and for Sare Details of the details of the details of the details of the details of the details of the details and details of Sare of the details and the details of Sare of the details and the details of Sare of the details and the details of the details. Catholic priests are forced to present copies of their weekly homilies to the Local Police to verify that they do not contain anti-regime messages, and prohibited to leave their respective municipalities with government authorization.
All interior religious activities, described by the CWS report, are subject to “open and undercover” regime monitoring. The regime warns the religious leaders of the Church that they do not speak or pray on specific issues, such as preaching unity, justice or prayer for imprisoned religious leaders or general ritics as a whole, which can be considered as “criticism of the good gon.” “” “”
The departure indicated that the restrictions specifically affect the dioceses with a large number of exiled priests, such as Matagalpa, which is now based on priests from other dioceses that enter weekly. The Diocese of Matagalpa is one of the most affected by the relentless persecution of Ortega’s Christianity. In 2022, the Nicaraguan Police made a two -week raid of the parish that culminated in the trial of his bishop, the Monsignor Rolando Álvarez and several other members of the Church.
Bishop Álvarez, a transparent critic of the Ortega regime, was sentenced to 26 years in prison for positions of “betrayal” and stripped of his Nicaraguan citizenship, which gave him a person stateless rape Or international law. Álvarez spent more than 500 days in prison before Ortega banished him to the Vatican in January 2024.
The Pilar reported that the new restrictions follow Álvarez giving an interview with the Catholic Teleworking Ewtn Network in January, a year after his banishment in Nicaragua. The interview drew the anger of the Nicaraguan dictatorial couple, who responded in a deranged rant In which the Vatican is accused of being a state of “depraved pedophile” guilty of “Pavean mysticism.”
Week after the interview, the Ortega regime had the construction of the Episcopal Curia or Matagalpa gym In the location of a company affiliated with Social Security and stole all important relics. The regime originally seized the 2022 raid building in the parish and kept it under the constant guard of the Local Police, in accordance with the statements of the local community.
In accordance with the statements of lay people who gap With the Nicaraguan newspaper The press In March anonymously, in other dioceses, priests are not obliged to go to the police station, but the police go to the parishes and ask them for a summary of their weekly activities and ask how the masses are scheduled in the data week.
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In November, the Ortega regime kidnapped and banished Monsignor Carlos Herrera, Bishop of Jinotega and head of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) after criticizing the mayor of Jinotega Leonidas Centeno for missing respect to a Mass that presided over the service for the service.
“What the mayor and all local authorities are doing is sacrilegious … We ask God’s forgiveness for them and our choose,” said Bishop Herrera the duration of that mass.
The Ortega regime responded to Herrera’s comments by kidnapping him after he attended a meeting with the other Bishops of CEN in the capital city of Managua before him to Guatemala. Monsignor Herrera was the third Catholic bishop banished by the Nicaraguan communist regime in 2024 after Álvarez and Monsignor Isidoro del Carmen Mora, Bishop of Siuna, who was banished with Bishop Álvare.
“A source close to the Conference of Nicaraguan Bishops told the Pilar that it was believed that an increase in persecution last summer was a pressure campaign by the government to force exiled bishops to renounce their verse Amypes, Whoop Whoops,” Thehops “” Thehops “,” Thehops “, Thehops,” Thehops, “Thehops,” Thehops, “Thehops,” Thehops, “Thehops,” Thehops, “Thehops,” Thehops, “Thehops,” Thehops, “Thehops,” “Thehops”, Thehops, “Thehops,” Beshops “,” Beshops. “” Similar movements could be tried again, they warned. “
“The local church observers have compared the Nicaraguan situation with China. Many believe that Ortega would like to have their own Catholic Church learned by the Government if the Vatican does not yield to the pressure,” the report continued.
Christian K. Caruzo is a Venezuelan writer and documented life under socialism. You can follow it on Twitter Gentleman.
