The government of Daniel Ortega will leave Nicaragua without the priceless service of the nuns. This information was provided on the independent portal "Despacho 505" by dissident and human rights defender Martha Molina, who keeps reporting on attacks on the Church in this Central American country. The nuns are to leave Nicaragua by the end of the year.
As the Italian SIR agency reminded, Marta Molina is simply a reliable origin of information on the persecution of the Church in Nicaragua. She is the author of the study “Nikaragua: Persecuted Church?” in which she papers the attacks of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship on the Catholic Church, starting in 2018.
Exile of the nuns
Reporting the announced banishment of nuns, she wrote on her X profile: “These weeks the migration stations will note the presence of nuns due to the fact that the dictatorship has given them an ultimatum: «You have until December to leave the country». The eventual concerns “all” nuns in Nicaragua. The activist assumes that they will be accepted in neighboring countries and will at least find temporary refuge in the homes of various conventions. Molina recalls that the Sandinist authorities had already banned many church non-profit organizations, including Caritas, through which the sisters brought aid to the poor, excluded and needy. Their assets were taken over by the state, which practically took distant many gatherings from the chance to act.
Delegation of orders, acquisition of property
Already 2 years ago, the government closed all the charitable works conducted by the Sisters of parent Teresa of Calcutta and ordered them to leave Nicaragua, in which they had served for 40 years. “We left with large pain. We are suffering due to the fact that we had to leave our poor," said the sisters who found shelter in neighboring Costa Rica. Eighteen loving missionaries took full care of the poorest and weakest people: “We have never done any political activity, we have focused only on helping the most deprived.”
Last year, the Nicaraguan government expelled 2 sisters from the Dominican Assembly since the Annunciation and confiscated the Trapisque monastery in San Pedro de Lóvago. "Of the 1500 non-profit organizations that have late been liquidated, at least 20 are spiritual organizations that have or have had schools and educational centres," recalled Molina, thus referring to the exile from Nicaragua of the Jesuits who ran a university in that country. Previously, the activities of the Order of the insignificant Brothers of Capuchins were banned. Independent Nicaraguan journalists reported that nursery, kindergarten, diners, orphanages and aged homes led by love missionaries in 3 cities Nicaragua has already been requisitioned by the authorities that removed all Christian symbols from it.
250 priests expelled from Nicaragua
The Ortega government grows into the most repressive dictatorship, much more anti-Christian than those in Venezuela and Cuba. Molina reported that “more than 250 clergymen had to flee the country due to the fact that they were threatened with death, were expelled or inactive incapable to enter the country again, despite being Nicaraguans.” The last of the expelled priests is Fr Floriano Ceferino Vargas. He was detained by government agents on the last Sunday, 1 December, after a mass celebrated in the church of San Martín, in Nueva Guinea, in the Diocese of Bluefields. He was forced to leave for Panama. This confirms the change in the course of the regime, which alternatively of an earlier long prison of priests has late put on their swift and arbitrary expulsions from the country. Priests were besides banned from entering hospitals to give the sacrament of anointing the sick, thus depriving the weak, sick and dying people of the grace of this sacrament, as well as the consolation that the presence of a priest gives.
Pope support
Before the upcoming celebration of the Immaculate Conception of the NMP, which is very crucial in the Nicaraguan tradition, Pope Francis wrote a letter of comfort to the Catholics of this country. This coincided with the regime's decision, which, another year in a row, prohibited the organisation of conventional Marian processions in the country, which, according to centuries-old tradition, went out onto the streets of Nicaraguan cities and villages. "In the intimacy of our hearts is protected the freedom of the daughters and sons of God, which no 1 can take from us," wrote the Pope in a letter to God's people in Nicaragua. He stressed that “just in the most hard moments erstwhile it is humanly impossible to realize what God wants from us, we are called upon not to uncertainty his care and mercy. The Son's trust in him, and the faithfulness to the Church, are 2 large lights that illuminate your existence."
Source: KAI
The arrest of Catholic clergy in Nicaragua continues
